Monday, 13th October 1913 Photo By Francis E. Price.

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MRS. JESSIE B. GWINN.

Mrs. Jessie Brock Gwinn, who has found that wealth and

automobiles to not always make a girl happy, and who longs for

the fianc who is not wealthy, instead of the husband who is, sat

on her front porch for just about two minutes Sunday afternoon.

She had consented to pose for a pleture. It seemed to the

photographer that the attractive little blonde head would turn this

way and that every second and that he had to snap his pictures

between movements.

The neighbors just seem head over heels in curiosity and

they won't let me come out of the house, she explained. She was

watching then that no one should come walking by to get a sight

of her.

Everybody Looks at Her.

The 17-year-old girl who last Monday ran away with John

Henry Gwinn three days after she had become engaged to Fred

Bagwell, and who left her husband last Friday, is the center of

attraction in the Larkin street neighborhood. It used to be that

when she came and went about her business that only the

masculine neighbors turned to look at her. They could not help it,

because she is good to look at, and really she didn't mind just a

fleeting glance. Now they all stare and never seem to take their

eyes off her.

It's worse than the crowds at the Frank trial, she said, and

I've had to stay in the house all day, and it's so pretty outdoors,

too.

The bride of a week is hoping that the courts will listen to the

demands of her father, J. W. Brock, and annul the marriage. She

discovered that after all she loves Fred Bagwell and can be happy

with no other man, and Fred still carries the marriage license in

his pocket. He had bought one on Monday and was to have been

married to her that night, but instead she was persuaded to marry

Gwinn Monday afternoon.

I never can tell how I ever came to marry John Henry, the

girl said. He and his friends got around me when I met at lunch

that day and when I wouldn't promise to marry him they

persuaded me to get in the auto and take a ride and they went

straight to the ordinary and got a license. Then they told me that

they'd never speak to me if I didn't get married right then.

Easy to Persuade.

Oh, I must be easy to persuade for somehow I couldn't

refuse and before I knew it Judge E. H. Orr had tied the knot. Then

I burst into tears. I realized what I had done, but it was too late

and I tried for five days to make the best of it.

What will happen in the romantic affair today is something

that can only be guessed at. Gwinn, who is the sone of the

shoeman at 6 Luckie street, has employed Munday and Cornwell,

attorneys in the Kiser building, and is preparing to file

proceedings for divorce. Mr. Brock is going to start suit for an

annulment of the hasty marriage on the ground that his daughter

is a minor and married without his consent.