South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-06
Substitute Brides" Strange Tale
OF Marriage TO "DOubIeS" LOUer
PuSSIeS Police And Psychologists

FstheIv. and with the romantic
daring Of you0g girls. they traded
nvcs-for better or worse.
Mutually dissatisfied with fate
rrosaic DEGREES. Dolly Green ana
mildred Gardner. doubles who
met bv chance. exchanged names,
persouautics. regulations. jobs. i"-
i9re prospects and love affairs in
gamble that has rcsulted i'm amaz-
ing consequence.
what should have been Mii-
drcd's has thus come 20 Dolly
work as sod8 fountain clerk
instead az a chorus girls life
The love ~ stranger. ac-
ceptod as matter 81 course
Marriage with Lawrence Kelly
charged with forgcry.
And finally. the necessity Of eE-
planning WHY a. Mildred Gardner
She welded Kelly without having
secured decree from her "dou-
bIe's" undiv0rced husband.
such is the rist of "a weird tale
or assumed identity as told here 10y
.DoUy Green" 16-year-oid "suostt-
tute bride" who made her sens1-
tionaI revelation after kelly.s arrest
~ Denver colo.
Investigation by Mldred's undi-
vorced husband revealed the tangle.
Police Puzzled.
The authorities are not con-
WINGED whether Dolly is really
Mildred" now seeking to avoid
bigamy implications, whether It
Is case OF psychopathic dual
personality. or whether the whole
affair isn't "a dubious hoax with
yet another motive.
But while psychologists. the fam
fIv az Mildred. her home town
friends In Delhi Colo. and even her
husband acknowledge themselves
more or less baffed. Dolly Green
stuck 20 her story. and The man she
married profcssed 10 accept it at
face value
she is my wife, and L love
her" said Kelly.
II love Lawrence. declared
Dolly Green. "the real Mildred
doesn't
I'VE traded lives. identity and
sweethcarts-and I ann satisfied
The 16-year-old bride said re-
morse for having married Kelly
under an assumed name was her
motive in declaring her real iden-
tity.
Doubles" Trade.
NY name is Dolly Green" she
Fl IN
Akron. .. / met Mildred Gardner
in Dallas. Tex We looked so start
lingly alike. and were so dissatisfied
with our lives. that we decided to
change personalities, jobs and what
the future held
81 was travelling with show
under an assumed name. She was
working in soda fountain. She
wrote her life story. and / wrote
mine. coaching each other for our
parts. ] was brought up as a ward
and never knew my parents. Mil
dred lived in Delhi, Colo, and on a
visi, 20 her folks / managed to make
them believe I was their daughter.
Mildred had met Ralph Allen
Lawrence Kelly i'm August. 1920.
We changed place in November.
She did not love him the way she
should have; I love him better than
life. To have remained true to my
role I should have secured "a divorce
from MiJdred's former husband J..
II. Eundell. whom she married Sc
cretly two years ago. and from
whom she is now trying to secure
q legal separation.
Husband Fooled?
Even Lawrence didn't suspect
the change. although ne said I didn' {
act exactly like Mildred at times.
She and / looked so nearly alike
that bobbing my hair like hers COM
pleted the deception
IF Kelly. held nj Boulder. Colo.
decides to accept the substitute
bride" they VIII have to be rcmar-
ried because of the fictitious name
given by Dolly Green" according
To city Chaplain Jim Goodhcart.
who married the couple.
t.. NEH-S TINES H.. II