Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-14 | Page 1 | Dream Courtship of Georgia Girl

DBM COURTSHIP OF GEORGIA GIRL Believes She's Married and Claims Body of Wreck Victim as Husband. CHICAGO, Nov. 13. A graphic story of the dream courtship of iliss Julia Choate Crumley of Atlanta, Ga., was revealed by the authorities here tonight. to-night. The details of how she obtained the unidentified body of a wreck victim held at the morgue here and took it to Atlanta to be buried as her fiance, "Dr. Aylleyne Hensley," -were given in a statement by the coroner's office. That Miss Crumley was the victim of self-hypnotism was the suggestion advanced in dispatches from Atlanta today. 'While she was ill in a Baltimore Balti-more hospital, it was declared, she pic: tured a romance in which the doctor who saved her life asked her hand in marriage. The following statement signed by the young woman before she was permitted per-mitted to remove the body she identified identi-fied was made public by the coroner's office here tonight: "My name is Julia Crumley Hens-lev. Hens-lev. I am a musician by occupation and the deceased is my husband. He was born in Kentucky, was 37 years old and his father's name was Edward Hensloy. I do not know where his father was born and I do not know his mother's maiden name or where she was born. He was a physician and had lived in Chicago one month, but I do not know exactly where. He had no insurance, in-surance, but had one child, 4 years "We were married in January, lfll4, in Tampa, Fla., and he left immediately immediate-ly after our marriage. I last saw him alive in Julv, 1915, in New York and next saw h'im when I identified one body this morning. I cannot afford to pay inquest, fees. We will bury him in Atlanta, Ga.' ' . . "She wept incessantly while giving the statement, and I never for a minute min-ute suspected it, was anything but a nona fide identification," said David R. Jones, deputy coroner. According to the police, no effort will be made to solve the mysterv surrounding surround-ing the identity of the body MIbs Crumley Crum-ley claimed and it will not even be brought back here for burial.