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Show cf otii ra i;mi OEM FaKe Bridegroom Pays Ten Collar Weddini Fee With a Bogus Twenty. - i y ' -'. . CHICAOO, Sept. 2l.-A soaen preachers preach-ers are condoling with tack other over the loss of good money, of which they were defrauded by a-counterfeiter and a woman aocompltce, wha repeatedly presented pre-sented themselves for marriage and else T resented false 1 3 bills In - payment of a 18 fee. Th clergyman who told of thf fraud refused the names of (he preachers preach-ers Involved as secrecy had bean agreed n at a denomlnetinnal meeting at which the victims condoled with each other. ' Under the names of Guatave Foster and Amanda Thomaa, an elderiv. but apparently appa-rently loving pair, at various time pre-Svtntna1 pre-Svtntna1 themeelves at . the parsotvagea of the several preacher and deslre4 to ba married. - " , After the reremony ha been performed the man said: "I .'sh, air. that I could reward you with 1-0 for this kind act of yours, which makes a happy ending to a courtship court-ship lasting many years, but my purse la somewhat slim, and 1 can afford but 110." . - t ; ' 8o saying he tendered a hill, anl the rlrf mn. wHl pleased to have performed per-formed this noble office, aa well as to nave a windfall of $ia, gave him back lie In Kal money. "I tried to buy a booh of sermons with my bill. aald the preacher who told the story, ,"and was repulsed by an angry salesinaa who threatened to have me arrested. ar-rested. ' . . i K . |