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WEDS GIRL OF 15Groom in Row With Parents of ChifcJ-Bride,TROUBLE IS PATCHED UPMotorman William Hofi-arv Effecti Reconciliation With Lrate Fat her -In-Lav After Trying Session at Police Hco^qtiArterstA hasty wedding at the fmrsrrrrafr'e of Bov, H. C, Shaffer, pastor a# the First United Brethren Chur oh, 123 Bast Fifteenth street, yesterday afternoon resulted In a St moire meeting of the young couple and the father and brother of the bride at police headquarters last night. At first It looked stormy, hut after a quiet chat together the father and the young couple came to an agreement and returned to the family home, Ttl Ehat mouKftenliistreet.William Hogan, of 4*M) East Twenty-third street, north, vm the bridegroom. and Hlf-y Anna Bonkers, aged IE, was the bride. Her father. Ant one Doakere, foreman for the Pullman Otr Company. and a brother of the girl were at the utatSon-house to protest against the marriage, saying it was illegal and threatuning to prosecute the young man for perjury should bo persist tn keeping his bride. Hogan refused to give her up, however, and dramatically declared that he would not be separated from her.Captain of PoUco ESlover, at whose request the girl's father went tt headquarters, was advJLeed to take hie daughter and son-in-law into a private room and attempt to reach an amicable settlement. This was done, and at 10 o’clock the little group left police headquarters. The young couple agreed to return home and be mar-Tled according to the rites of the Catholic Church.Hogan, who is a motornron in the employ of the Fort!and Railway, XJffht lt;fe Power Company, married the girl early yeettxtiajr afternoon, and they went to apartments in South Portland, where they were found by the brides brother. The latter was Irate over the marriage and compelled Hogan to accompany him to police headquarters.When the trio reached headquarters tbo case was laid before Qiptaia Clover, who secured from Hogan a frank statement of perjury. In. that Hogan confessed to making affidavit before the County Court that Mies Honkers was IfL He declared, how-w«ra ihoi he would go to the penitentiary, if necewiry to protect hfs wife, raying ho preferred that to losing hor.Captain 91 over nammoncd the girl’s father, and whan ho arrived he soon settled the matter, Tbo tether sms not particularly pronounced against his son-inlaw, but he and Mrs. Honkers most iftrongly objected to the secret marriage and to the ceremony being performed by a Protestant minister.When asked by Captain Slaver why he and the girl ran away and got married, young Hogan replied that Anna autie to him In tears tn the moraine saying her mother had threatened to kfll her If she !M?ratfftlt;?d in keeping company with him She left home, he said, and announced that he must marry her then or never, :tad he married her. fearing that if fca hesitated he would lose his prise.
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Portland Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Thu, Apr 11, 1907
Page 6
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Genealogical F.
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