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.1BRANDS HIS WIFE NEGRESSST. 1L0TJIS.—'Mrs. Cora Clamorgan Collins, whose 20-year-old husband filed suit to annul their marriage on the groundthat she is a negress,, declares she will fight the suit to the last resort.Mrs. Collins! who is one.of an accomplished family which is well known in the''West End for ability to entertain; is silent • as to her lineage, but. both her father and mother stoutly maintain they have no negro blood.“My husband* did not learn of these awful accusations until. last night, .when he left, mo, said Mrs. Collins. “Of course, I shall care for our six weeks’old baby.** _Collins, the husband, says he neverwants to see his .baby again. His suit’ was filed by his father, Owen Collins, as his next friend,, as’ the- son is -under; age. The statutes of- 'Missouri provide that any marriage between a .white per-. son' and one ’with, one-eighth or more negro blood is unlawful.For four-years the family, of' Txmi s F. Clamorganxhas been prominent in Maplewood and Ellendalei social circles. The five daughters . are accomplished musicians and the son, am athlete, Is said to have courted a white girl, while one daughter, Blanche, who is a reader in a Christian Science Church, . is betrothed to a white man, wrib will r*.ot. break the 'engagement.Clamorgan insisted , today that his great-gTandfather was Jacques Glamorgan, a lieutenant in the Spanish navy. 'Mrs. Clamorgan said her father, was4 *Scotch-Irish and her mother a French woman. Both are college graduates.Two of the Clamorgan girls attend high school, and Superintendent .Blewett said he would take steps - to have them removed if the charge is. proved, as the laws of Missouri do not permit negroes and whites to attend the same schools., ■ . . * • • •• ST. L.OTJIS.— Displaying rare presenceof mind and coolness, Miss Enid Hib-bard reached jirm’s .length,, and; grasping the connecting spar to the front elevatorwhich controlled the up and. down mo-
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Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California, US
Mon, Jun 19, 1911
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