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Show BOTH WANT HIM. Two I'omie tadir Who love a Swift Youth. Wichita, Kan., Sept. 22. A clerk in a dry goods store, aud quite a dashing young luan, -was arrested Saturday 'upon a complaint of Maggie 1'nltz, charging him with a serious crime. Reaching the courtroom, it was agreed that a wedding would make amends for all, and they wore publicly married in the court room. After a moment's congratulation a young girl, Jennie Tolman, rushed frantically into the court room and cried out: "Oh Amos, you ain't married, are, you?" following by a string of uninte -ligible words, and rushed up to He llo completely lost control of lumselt, nd the answer came from anotticr that he had just married. l"was the signal for another outbreak and the bailiff forced her into another room and insisted on her keeping quiet. She iinally told the story that the then Mrs. Bell had less cause for cemplaiut than she herself. , She was less than 18 years old, and, according to Kansas law his relations with her were such that the legal action she would take would be known as rape, and she would rather turn h.m over to tho penitentiary than to the arms of another girl.. Some friends of Bell lost no opportunity to seek to pacify paci-fy her, and in the event money w ill repair re-pair the damages she will no doubt get a good sum. Xo court actmn has yet been brought. She is quite preltj. being the 5n!y daughter o a widow ladv She is highly respected. Dell has kept company with her for some time- |