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Show YOUNG MAN KIDNAPED ANI FORCE! TO MARRY Victim of Masked Gang Asks Court To Annul Wedding TULSA, Okla., May 3. Charging that he was kidnaped last Saturday evening by five unmasked men, bhndfolded, placed in an automobile auto-mobile and carried far into the country where, bound to a gas engine, handcuffed and at the point of pistols, was compelled to marry a former sweetheart he was accused of betraying, Chester Cagle, who says he is a minor, 20 years old, filed suit in distinct court Tuesday through his mother, Mrs. Eva Cagle, asking that his marriage to Belle Cagle Jones, be annulled. The story or the wedding as told by the petition for annulment was supplemented sup-plemented by n statement from young i atlc. H. ml the marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev Harold G. Cooke, and that was confirmed later when Mr Cooke told newspaper men thai he, loo, had been kidnaped and I taken to the country where he mar ; ried the couple. Vo' l"nr,r col. I iVial lir.fnrc t ViO li'.ir. rlage ceremouy was performed lie heard some of the men. all of whom Wi re unknown to him, question Cagle and the girl. Ho said he heard Cagle confirm that bo had wronqed the girl and say he intended and was ready-to ready-to marry her Then -the minister said ; before ho spoke tho words that united Mho boy and girl in marriage, be asked j both If all had been said were true and they replied in tho affirmative. ' He n-k .1 both If they wanted to marry and they said thev did Then, be said, ho married them The young bride lives with her father fa-ther here. She has been married before be-fore and is divorced and has a 4-year-old son. In his statement to a reporter, youns Cagle mentioned the "Invisible em-1 plre" ln connection with Iho wedding He said one of the five men said he represented the "invisible empire"! Mr. Cooke explained that he had the same Impression. oo |