transcribed and contributed by Susan Langheld (date unidentified)

Newspaper:  Cleveland Herald
Date:  08/20/1909

SEVENTEEN_YEAR OLD HUSBAND, HEIR TO FORTUNE, AND HIS GIRL WIFE.
The case of Valentine A. FRIES, the seventeen-year-old Ohio boy who is heir to $600,000 and whose relatives have sought to separate him from his girl wife, has attracted the attention of legal men all over the country. Fries married Miss Hazel Brockett of Cleveland, who is eighteen, without consent of his grandfather and guardian. The grandfather by writ of habeas corpus took the youth from his bride, the court ruling that he could only see her on Saturday afternoons.

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