Ruse of Girl Who Desired to Marry.
When Martha J. Mayers, sixteen, applied for a marriage license at Fort Collins, Colo., she told the clerk that she was over eighteen. She insisted in court the next day that she was telling the truth.
She explained to County Judge Fred W. Stover that before going for the license she had placed a piece of paper with the figures eighteen written on it in her shoe so that she could truthfully say she was over eighteen.
The girl declared that her grandmother had told her of the scheme.
Bert B. Cain, who was arrested for perjury following the marriage to the sixteen-year-old girl, was held under bond.