Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-07
STABBED GIRL BRIDE.
DYING IN HOSPITAL.
Mother. a Philadelphian, Has
tens to Daughters Bedside
in Portsmouth, Va.
HUSBAND IS ACCUs { D

Mrs. Katherine Wollom. sixteen
vsor.old wife of Victor r. Wollom, a
.b,ef boatswain's mate on the presi-
de,tial Yacht MayHower, is dying in the
Kings Daughters Hospital, Ports
r,outb Va. from stabs which the police
,ov we're inflicted by the husband yes
terday.
Mrs, Mary Cunningham. of 273l
Titan street. is fastening to ner daugh-
t.r's bedside today. She was not ad-
vised early today as to the really criti-
"a, condition of her daughter. "1'm
,o;no 70 bring her back to Philadelphia
?,st as soon as she Is well enough to
come" was her cry.
Tn This tragedy are the elements
uhich carry the mother back to her own
,irlho,d, for she. too, was q girl bride.
sbe married at fourteen, after hasty
ro,rtship, and there were seventeen
children BY her marriage to Charles
Cunningham.
Husband Tries TO Explain
Mrs. Wollom was found in her home
esrly Yesterday suffering from several
serious wounds. and lapsing into semi
ronscious condition. Victor Wollom,
tbc husband. was in the same room.
also suffering from wounds. and his
bnzy explanation to the police was that
~ must have stabbed her lmeaning
his wife) and then myself while in the
tbroes OF nightmare.
That the police of Portsmouth DO not
believe the sailors story is evidenced
by the telegram sent Mrs. Cunnihgnan ,
hot the two had been removed to the
Kings Daughters Hospital. The mes
sage read: xo.,o,;,o s+o,hod
hr ber husband, who theh attempted
YH;c;de Her condition is serious"
Mrs, Cunningham told the story Of
tho shattered romance today.
"Wollom met my daughter on the
afternoon Of July 80, of last year. She
wss then only fifteen years old, was a
student at school, happy and carefree.
He wns much older, yet was very at
tractive.
"He and Katherine left the house
and went 70 Willow Grove. They did
not return until very late, and my hus-
hand was terribly angry. raising strong
objections. Katherine Calmed him, ant
convinced him they had been at the park
hy showing a photograph she had taken
with Wollom. wv,
''Wollom went to the hotel in wal
nut street near Twelfth, where he was
staying. The next day. the thirty -hrst
he sent n message to the house, asking
Katherine to meet him downtown
Later he came to the house. asserted
he was terribly in love with Katherine
and wanted to marry her, and II we
vo,Ildn't consent he said he would take
her away anyhow and marry her, de-
spite US.
Wouldn't Stand in Way
We were awfully upset by the dom
mating attitude of the man, but Kath.
crime seemed to like him.
Then ] recalled that l. too. hat
married when very young-l was only
fourteen when ! married. l have beer
the mother of seventeen fine children
and couldn't see myself in the way Of
the happiness of one of my girls.
80 the next day we went to City
Hall and gave our consent as parents
to the issuance of q license. and they
were married in the church at Thir-
teenth and Race streets. Katherine
seemed very happy and satisfied when
she went away.
Lately her letters have been depress
ing. indicating that her husband had
again assumed that dictatorial. domi :
neering fashion we had noticed. She
wrote and told me a short time ago that
she expected the birth of q child, anC
seemed to fear the outcome, for she
stated in that letter that Victor, hcl