Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-20

her public interests and her private
charities.
81. In the course of said CORE
spondence, defendant frankly in
formed plaintiff that certain mem
bers of his family, upon receiving
knowledge of his engagement to
plaintiff, had manifested decided OPP
position to his purpose to marry.
Family Objected
%. Defendant made it clear to
plaintiff that said opposition was
not based upon his plan to marry
pressed opposition Of said members
of his family to his purpose to
marry at all.
20. Upon receiving this informa-
ton, plaintiff promptly Informed
defendant that she was unwilling
to marry him in the face of opposi-
ton by members of his family, and
plaintiff earnestly and sincerely en-
deavored to impress defendant with
the ACCESSIBILITY of a mutual aban-
donment of the engagement at this
stage.
80. Defendant, with equal prompt
ness and apparent sincerity, ex-
pressed to plaintiff his utter unwill-
ingness to release plaintiff from the
engagement, and his sincere and
unalterable desire to consummate
the engagement by marriage just as
soon as plaintiff would consent to
fix a date for the marriage to occur.
81, Defendant professed to feel
deeply wounded by plaintiffs sugges-
ton that the engagement should be
terminated under the circumstances.
80. He specifically reminded plain
tiff of the great sacrifices he had
made for members of his family
throughout his life, impressed her
with recited evidence of the genuine
ness of his lifelong devotion to them,
and mentioned the financial obliga-
tons under which he had placed
them by voluntary gifts of a large
portion of his great fortune.
SO. He earnestly assured plaintiff
the members of his family that his
only hope for lasting peace, comfort
and happiness was based upon mar
riage with your petitioner, and re-
peatedly assured her that whatever
opposition they had manifested would
be removed by his marriage, and that
she would, upon the contamination
of her marriage with defendant, be
cordially received as a welcome
member of his family circle.
81. Plaintiff, having full confidence
in the great influence which defend
ant had always been able to exercise
in every phase of life, and having no
reason to doubt his statements that
the kindness, benefits and bounties
he had heaped upon the members of
his family would cause them to ac-
cede to the plans he had devised for
the happiness of his domestic life,
accepted his protestations and assur-
ances, and again agreed to become
his wife.
New Cause to Doubt
35. 1t was not long after plaintiff
had so acquiesced in defendants en-
treaties that she found new cause
to doubt the extent Of defendants
influence over the members of de-
PENDANTS family, and to genuinely
suspect that a determined effort was
being exerted by them to subordi-
nate defendant to the influence Of
their own personal and selfish inter-
ests at the expense Of defendants
own plans and purposes.
SO. Members of defendants family
visited New Orleans, with the pro-
fessed purpose of investigating the
! character of plaintiff,
81. Plaintiff had spent a great por-
ton of her life and much of her time
| in New Orleans, in which city she
was well known.
38. Said investigation, regardless of
| its professed purpose, was prosecuted
with the sole hope and purpose of
locating sources of information de-
rogatory to the character of your Pc
titioner in order that, defendant
might be prejudiced against petit
| TONER
80. Said investigation extended to
every phase of plaintiffs life, and
| the detectives therein employed even
went to the extent of cross examin-
| ing negro servants who had been
employed by plaintiff.
40. The members of defendants
family identified with said investiga-
ton, reported to defendant the re-
suit of their investigation.
Al. Defendant promptly acquainted
| plaintiff with the reports received by
| him as the result of said investiga-
tons, and proclaimed, with express
sions of pride, that the thorough in
vestigations which had been made
merely served to confirm his own
high estimate of plaintiffs character
and to make him feel even more Sc
cure. in the promise of happiness his
| anticipated marriage to plaintiff
would bring into his life.
AZ. Defendant then urged plaintiff
to agree to fix a date for the con-
summation of their marriage.
43. Plaintiff, still having every con-
fidence in the earnestness of defend
ants assurances and the genuineness
of his protestations, consented that
the date for the wedding should be
fixed.
A. Defendant fixed September 90,
1922, for the date of his marriage
with plaintiff.
As. 1t was agreed that the wedding
should occur on that date, at Reno,
New, the place of plaintiffs resi-
dence.
Sent Furniture Here
46. Upon defendants suggestion
and request, plaintiff sent her
household furniture to defendant III
Atlanta, in advance of said date, to
comply with his expressed desire
that her furniture might he INSTALL
ed in his home.
AZ. Defendant caused announce.
ment cards to be prepared announc-
ing the wedding, in order that the
announcements might be duly mail
ed to the friends of the contracting
parties after the wedding had been
consummated.
4S. Defendant also informed
plaintiff that he desired to have
general reception at his home in
honor Of the bride, in order that his
friends might welcome her upon her
return from their wedding tour.
40. The forms for the reception
We're prepared by defendant and
submitted to plaintiff for her approx,
al, Sand were returned to him with
her approval.
so. Defendant submitted to plain
tiff the itinerary of the wedding
tour planned by defendant.
81. The itinerary so submitted and