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RACINE WOMAN RUNS DOWN HER FIDDLING HUBBY1 rlt; irrlt;ITaFinds Him Living With Wife Xo. 2 ( Sin Chicago and He Is Arrested a*.til Locked Up.aauBelow will be found a story sent ^ out from Chicago anO which will be I A found of interest to Racine people, , a because a Racine lady is supposed to ^ be one of the'victim? of the musician'vmentioned: . t\.CHICAGO, Oct. 17—Two women wooed and won with the strains of his violin faced James E. Courson of 7251 Dobson street. The first Mrs. Courson, who was Li lab C. Hay of 1014 Franklin street, Racine, met him through an advertisement in a mat:*!- |( monial paper which she answered. 11 He visited her and played his violin for her. They were married in If OS.Four yems Inter he left her. x\. few days ngn she learned thal he waij in Chicago. Sho came here with herfather, Adam Huy, and $Uirtcd h-;*r 1 r search. itFinally she went lo the marriage | ilicense bureau. There she learned :c that he had taken out a license to f marry Frances Jorgenson and that i c the Rev. X. C. Hansen of Bethel Me- j v thodist Episcopal church had per-j r formed the ceremony. She went to ] the address given in the iicense and j i asked for Mrs. Courson. j i“I am . Mrs. Courson,” answered - swife No. 2. v j1Explanations followed. The second tMrs. Courson said that she too had I been charmed by the same tunes oil * Courson’s violin which he played frequently when he lived near her at Thirty-fifth street and Indiana avenue-Courson was arrested and locked i * up. }!
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Racine Journal News

Racine, Wisconsin, US

Mon, Oct 19, 1914

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