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Show BAT'S WIFE SAYS SHE WAS KIDNAPED, Denver. Colo.. Feb. 27. Fay King Nelson, bride of "Battling" Nelson, announced tonight thai she will Institute In-stitute divorce proceedings against her husband at once. Thev were married last January, In the former lightweight pugilist champion's home at Kges- j wlch, 111 where the ceremony was accompanied by the blare of a brass band and much gayety. By filing such .1 suit she and But will both get a lot of publicity to which neither is averse, and Miss King's friends expect an announcement announce-ment before long that she is going on the stage. She is at present writing writ-ing her impressions of a prize fighter fight-er husband, which thesis will con- elude with advice to girls not to marry mar-ry prize fighters. Mrs. Nelson declared tonight that she was ' kidnaped " by Nelson and tfiken forcibly from the hotel In Den-rer Den-rer where she had been living. She sets forth that she has lived x Ith him but for three days and never was willingly his wife It la stated that Nelson will be In Denver next week and that the suit will be filed at that time Mrs Nelson is a cartoonist on tho staff of a local newspaper and has been at her work since shortly after her marriage. |