Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 43
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 19, 1907
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BRIDE-TO-BE CHANGED HER MIND
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And Her Aged Lover Is Weeping
and Wondering.
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       Denver, Colo., Oct. 16.--With eyes red from weeping and his scant gray hair disheveled, hanging limp over his low forehead, Marion Richardson, a section foreman of Maywood, Neb., who came to Denver yesterday with his young sweetheart, Helen Baker, to be married, now seeks through highway and byway his lost love, and refuses to be comforted.
       Richardson and Miss Baker arrived in Denver yesterday from McCook, Neb.  They went to the Grand Central hotel to remain until they could communicate with relatives at whose they expected to be married in the afternoon.  Then Mr. Richardson went out in search of the girl's mother, who was supposed to be visiting a sister named Walsch, at 4028 Welton street.
       While Richardson was out the bride-to-be disappeared, and with her went $55, which her fiance had given into her keeping.  In their place was a note containing the following message:
       "Marion, go to 3012 Welton street.  My mamma came down and got me.  Come at once."
       Now Richardson's walking the streets, dusty and unkempt, penniless, but ever hoping, searching for the young girl who plighted troth with this man, who is well on toward 50.

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