A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > Brooklyn http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=683 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50158 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Fort Worth Telegram Article Date: February 16 1909 Article Description: Marriage of Boy and Girl Annulled. Took Four Hours to Get Knot Tied and Four Minutes to Untie it. Article Text: It took Robert C. MASON, 17 years old and Grace SUYDAM, a pretty little blonde-haired girl of 15, four hours to find a preacher to marry them in Jersey City on Christmas night last. In the equity term of the Brooklyn supreme court Justice MAREAN annulled the marriage in exactly four minutes, and little Grace, weeping, parted from her boy husband and went to her home at 48 Downing street with her mother, on whose testimony the justice granted the decree. The girl is the daughter of a livery stable man, and young MASON, who also lives in Brooklyn, is the son of a broker. They met at high school and suffered severely from calf love. On Christmas night they slipped away from a party and went over to Jersey. When Grace came home that night she seemed very much excited, and finally confessed to her mother that she and MASON had been married and had then hurried back to their respective homes. "You are a very fortunate young man that there is no need of a charge of abduction against you," said Justice MAREAN to the youthful bridegroom after he had declared the marriage annulled. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com