Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-08 | Page 10 | Sues for Payment as Marriage Agent

I i SUES FOR PAYMENT p.; AS MABBIAGASENT ,l ' i , ' ' Caso to Be Tried in Massachusetts ', i ' Court, Wherein Plaintiff Ad- " j mlts Defendant's Alibi. ' ,1, I I Tfc ROOKLINE, Mass., May C One of t j l the most remarkable suits in the i j JJ? history of Massachusetts courts 'i j will bo started this week, when the action of W. S. Henry, Jr., a proml- j ' nent Bos-ton wool merchant, against ' Rev. John Parsons, an aged Brookllno ' millionaire, will be heard before Judge t i , , Lemuel Lebanon Holmes. Mr. Henry, who Is a member of the j wool brokerage firm of W. S. Henry & I, Co., 1S6 Summer street, wants ?S00O for 1 ' 1 securing an a wife for Mr. Parsons's son 'I Julia T. King of Denver and a gradu- I ate of the Emerson College of Oratory. ! Mlsii King was a member of the ' , ' Emerson college faculty when she married mar-ried Charles C. Parsons. Henry "al-1nrAtr "al-1nrAtr tlint lir was mmmtRKlnnd hv the I. aged 7lr. Parsons to procure a wife for .) i the latterJs son, and spent much money J , ! i and time in the search for a suitable ( i ! woman, which effort was rendered use- t f'j,, ' , less by Parsons'a marriage to Miss 1 Vl'. King. He thereforo demands compen- 1 satlon for his labors, although he ad- ; 1 mils that ho had not secured the wife 'j ' 1 i when Parsons found one for himself. J i As Frof. King, Mrs. ParHons was re- f ii '. i garded by critics to be unexcelled as an I orator In her sex. In July, 1900, ehe was . j , !i signally honored by an invitation to I j ' f ' represent the United States at Paris in I !; J. i! the international congress. Anntlve of I 1 i Denver, talented, beautiful and amia- ! j i)i e, sho graduated from Emerson col- ! I lege, and almost immediately became a i , :nember of the faculty. Since her mar- j! 1 , ' riage she has appeared on tho public )l ' i '1 platform only when the proceeds were i ji , devoted to charity. She married young I ! Parsons ' three years ago, and their I1 1 j friends say it was a pure love match.