The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-19
HEIRESS CLAIMS
She WAS DRUNK
when Married
Asks That She Be Released
From Man Who Was OBJ
ject Of Her Wrath and
Gun Play Lately.

."SohOorrI, Okla.-OffiClalg OF the
indian agency and private counsel have
begun an Investigation OF the marriag ge
OF Allie Daney, a rich Choctaw Indian
girl, who has been frequently In the
hmelight Of late, and Sanford Meyers,
clerk at Hotel Sewers with a view to
annuling tho marriage, II became known
today.
The ceremony was performed at Car
thage. Mo-, on August 10, by M. 8.
Viernow. q Justice Of the peace. 1t took
place at the court house there. The
marriage license issued at Carthage
gives the residence Of the couple as
joplin. Mo. The Daney girls age is
given az "over 18 prior to June 21,
1922" while the age OF Meyers IL given
as over 21."
Tells With Ex.Husband Present
According to Allies statement made
to Times-Democrat reporter today In
the presence Of her former husband
Lon Burton. abe and Meyers and an.
other clerk. Frank Mcdonald, at the
sewers hotel were out auto riding on
the night OF August and 1t was sug.
gested on the party that Meyers and
she marry. Mcdonald to be the best
man.
Later In the evening Meyers asked
Allie she meant that they should
marry. and Allie in her state Of intor.
ication said her usual remark, why,
sure"
Meyers and Allie then went to the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Foster, 109
North Sixteenth. she said and the party
left in the Burton automobile for Jop.
lin arriving there at s o'clock on Aug
10. Allies says that the men left the
room secured at one Of the Joplin no.
tells and later returned with a man who
had more liquor, red whisky and apri.
cot brandy. / took three more shots
said the girl.
Too Drunk to Walk
we then drove to some little town
in Kansas and Meyers tried to get a
license there but found that the Kan.
sas laws were the same as those in
Oklahoma. that you could not marry
for six months after a divorce was
granted. But the clerk in Kansas told
Meyers that the Missouri laws would
permit us to be married there, so we
went back to Joplin and on to Car
thage. q county seat
L was then so drunk that l couldn't
walk and Mrs. Foster had to help me
staggsr into the court house and up
the steps. And the last thing that l
remember was Meyers taking his stand
on my right and the other couple TAX.
ing their places on either side. woke
up the next day or sometime at Mrs
Fosters home. and she was saying:
DO you know your name Is changed? :?
Il said my name is not Meyers, it's
Allie Daney Burton"
According to officials who are inter
ested in the case the Daney girl on
whose allotment in the Healdton field
there are IL producing oil wells, has
instituted the inquiry for the purpose OF
declaring the marriage Illegal. She has
told them that she was not in q proper
mental state at the time To contract
marriage.
Recalls q Shooting
A Muskogee man and woman accom-
panied the couple TO Carthage. 1t was
understood today that their identity
had been solved and that they would
be interviewed for evidence. GOSSIP
is afloat that in the event the girl Is
successful In annullng the marriage
she will rc.wed Lon Burton. her for
ner husband. whom she divorced less
thun six months ago.
Meyers was at the Daney girls pret
" home. J24 South fourteenth. wher
she ran amuck less than a month ago
Tie story told at that time was thai
the girl pointed revolver at Meyers
The gun was discharged, but the bul
let found its way into the ceiling Of
the room instead OF In Meyers. Al
a sequel to this affair the Daney CIR
ran from the house 10 the home OF 9
neighbor, Mrs. Glen ruckley, where
she was later shot in the thigh. Sn,
has said she believes she shot herself
Twice Sued
This affair was followed by Bllh'
Mccullough. an Indian girl. who Il
said 10 have dissipated IA fortune. oh
tlined from mineral lands In the Qua
paw Indian district. filing suit agains
Miss Dsney and the Buckley woman
for $25 900 for beating she alleges
they administered to her. Less thai
two weeks ago Mrs. Fred Keple
brought suit for $4,000 damages for 1
fight that occurred at the Kepler hom'
where tho Daney girls former HUSBAND
had rooms.
On October I. Burton Is alleged Il
have viciously attacked his forme
wife at tho latter's homo. Burton ant
his brother were Jailed on . charge o
contempt OF court. The latter was dis
missed this week.