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Show IGNORANCE WAS BLISS Chicago Man Dies Believing Believ-ing He Had Married His Old Sweetheart. CHICAGO, Sept. 28. Believing that his last expresed wish had been gratified grati-fied and that his sweetheart, Miss Edith Brusxer, had become his wife through repeating the words of the marriage ceremony by a South Chicago Chica-go physician. Edward L. Board man, a switchman, who had been crushed between be-tween two cars, died yesterday in the hospital of the Illinois Steel company. The mother of the young man, Mrs. Mathilda Brusxer, had hurriedly left for Chicago to secure a marriage license, li-cense, but had not returned in time so a minister could be summoned. After Af-ter the young man was Injured he expressed ex-pressed the wish that he and his fiancee could be married before he died. Mrs. Brusxer had not returned and the young man, realizing that he had but a few moments to live, requested re-quested Dr. Hannah S. Starrow, who had attended him, to pronounce Miss Brusxer his wife. Hardly had Dr. Starrow finished repeating the words of a marriage ceremony when Boardman fell to one side of the hospital bed. "My wife at last," he said in low tones. He tried to repeat the words, but expired. A State law Ignored In the issuance of the license is the one enacted at the last session of the Legislature, which provides that no third party can obtain ob-tain the license. " "Mrs. Bruszer explained the sad circumstances and I issued the license," li-cense," explained Marriage License Clerk Salmonson. "It would have been inhuman to do otherwise." |
