MAIL ORDER BRIDEGROOM HAS YARNIN' FOR TENNESSEE HILLS SOJOURN IN JUG DELAYS RETURN When a mail order bridegroom from the Tennessee hills, Charles Rex Harmon, 47, was called in Municipal Judge Elmer D. Doyle's court to answer to a petty theft charge brought against him by his intended bride, Mrs. Ruth Weaver, 7027 Longridge Ave., Harmon did not answer. Unknown to the jilted bride and to Judge Doyle,who issued a bench warrant for his arrest, Harmon was in jail, had never made bond,and had not tried to get away. He Quietly Walked Out More homesick than lovesick, Harmon, a lonely bachelor in Briceville,Tenn., had advertised through a matrimonial column for a suitable wife, and had received a reply from Mrs. Weaver with whom he exchanged photographs and plans. Using a railway ticket and $14 she sent him, Harmon arrived in Van Nuys on Jan. 2. On Feb. 2, the day set for the wedding, he decided he "didn't like it here," quietly walked out, and started thumbing his way easterly toward his mountain home in Tennessee. Police picked him up a few hours later on Mrs. Weaver's charge that $93 Harmon had on his person belonged to her news vendor son, Lester Monk. Was Lost In Shuffle Harmon contended in pleading not guilty at his arraignment Feb. 3 that his ex-fiancee had given him the money on her agreement to pre-pay his return to his home state. After being lost in the shuffle at city jail, Harmon was finally brought before Municipal Judge Charles T. Johnson Thursday. His return to his Tennessee home was delayed when Judge Johnson sentenced him to 90 days in city jail for theft of the $93. Source: Van Nuys News, Van Nuys, California, March 1, 1948