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Surnames: Gates, Royer
Classification: Marriage
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The Weekly Sentinel
February 28, 1906
Fort Wayne, Indiana
JUDGE FAVORS LOVERS
Objection That Prospective Groom is Spendthrift Falls Before Court
Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 27--With the aid of Judge R.P. DeHart, Cupid won a victory in the
Tippecanoe circuit court yesterday. Last week Bert E. Gates and Bertha L. Royer, of Wea
township, applied for a marriage license, but before they arrived at the office of the
county clerk the girl's father, John V. Royer, a well-to-do farmer, filed an affidavit
with the clerk stating his objections against the granting of the license. The affidavit
set forth that the lover who had won the hand of his daughter was a spendthrift and was
not capable of supporting a wife. County Clerk Earl thereupon refused the applicants the
license.
The case was appealed to the circuit court and yesterday afternoon Judge DeHart took up
the case, ordering the young people to appear before him. He questioned the two young
people and learned that they were deeply attached to each other; that the prospective
bridegroom was an honest, hard-working young man and that the two could live on his wages.
Young Gates stated that he had been engaged to Miss Royer since last August and that he
prepared a home for his bride and was not a spendthrift as alleged by the girl's
father. The young lady declared allegiance to her lover and stated that her father
opposed their marriage without just cause.
After hearing the story the court overruled the objections of the girl's father and
ordered the clerk to issue a certificate of marriage. Shortly afterward Gates and Miss
Royer were married by Justice J.P. Shaw and left for their home in Wea township.