Hickory, Oct. 17—Authorities are searching for Earl Leonard, young white man of Hickory, who is charged with faking a marriage ceremony in Clover, S.C., with a young girl of Catawba Couty of a prominent family. The name of the girl is being withheld from the public.
It is alleged by the Hickory authorities that Leonard took the girl across the state line under promise of marriage and went through a bogus procedure, the girl believing the ceremony to be legal. The register of deeds of York County, S.C., told local officers that he had no record of the marriage and a license had not been secured in his county.
According to the local authorities, Leonard was going to South Carolina on a business trip for a Hickory firm and persuaded the girl to go with him, stating that they would be married as soon as they reached South Carolina. A few days later the girl’s father began an investigation and was unable to find any trace of the marriage. Leonard was arrested and then escaped. The girl is now at the home of her father in Catawba County.
Hickory officials are trying to find the man who is thought to have performed the ceremony, Leonard claiming that it was a justice of the peace.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, Oct. 19, 1925
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