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Show JOJF HE WON HER. An rg-ly Man Captivate the Heart of s Klch Widow. Philadelphia Recori, When a woman who as weathered fifty winters travels 1200 miles with $31,000 in her pocket to wed a penniless man whom she never saw, it Is ill jesting to say that marrige 5s a failure. Such a woman is Mrs. Lena Bennett Ben-nett , who traveled from Hillsdale, ,Mich. to Wilmington, Del., to marry Charles B. Clea-worth Clea-worth a machinist, and marry him she did at Canden yesterday. Two months ago Mrs. Cleaworth, who has . already buired two husbands put a tempting offer in a metropolitan paper. It fell unde-the unde-the eyes of Charles B. Cleaworth. and a correspondence corre-spondence followed. Photographs were exchanged, ex-changed, but the groom to be was not pleased with his own physiognomy, and ha transported trans-ported the likness of an Adonis frieud. The later maneuver bound the match, and last week the wealthy widow arrived in the chief city of the Diamond State, She registered regis-tered at'thc Western Hotel, Fourth and Orange streets, and learned that the object of her journey was at work at Trump Brothers machine shops. When the pair first met at the hotel on Wednesday afternoon there was not the expected embraces, for the lady could not see iu Cleaworth any resemblance to the. picture. No amount of persuasion could make the cov widow believe thnt the pleadpr for her hand was the bona fide correspondent correspon-dent untill Cleaworth admitted that he had seut a friend's photograph instead of his own. So deceived was the rich wife of two previous husbands that she began to pout; but the sympathetic actions of the prospective pros-pective third protector-won her over, and she actually said she was willing to have the ceremony performed if he was inclined like, wise, Tne next day the marriage was solemnized solem-nized in Camden, S'. J. and a brief honeymoon honey-moon at Atlantic City followed. |