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Show SLEEPS WHILE BRIDE WAITS Indiana Merchant Secured a License Then Goes to Sleep and Is Locked in Office. Lnwrencehurg, Ind. Edsvard L. Kuhn, aged forty-five, owner of a general gen-eral merchandise store in Clay township, town-ship, and Mrs. Anna Moore Davis, aged forty-five, a dressmaker of the same neighborhood, svere married at the parsonage of the First Baptist church by the Itev. Omer W. Bowman, Bow-man, the pastor, bat not at the time they planned. Mr. Kuhn came to this city in an automobile, and the bride-to-be came on a late train. While waiting for Mrs. Davis, Mr. Kohn obtained ob-tained a marriage license, then he sat down in the private office of the circuit cir-cuit court clerk and svent to sleep. When the day's work svas done James G. McKinney, the clerk, and his deputies, depu-ties, not noticing Mr, Kuhn, locked the office and went home. Mr. Kuhn awakened several hours later, and found he svas in the dark, locked In the office. He shouted for help several times, and finally attracted the attention atten-tion of Daniel E. McKennie, the sheriff, sher-iff, who released him. Mr. Kuhn found Mrs. Davis, svho svas searching the city for him, and they svere married. |