MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPER September 8, 1904. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Harris Hill" Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/crawford.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm "Harris Hill" The Schley County News Thursday, September 8, 1904. MARRIAGE LICENSE CAUSES SUIT F.S. Thomas. an optician, whose adopted daughter was married a few days ago, to Timothy Whatley, a young man of Columbus, has formerly notified the clerk of the superior court to bring suit under section 2418 of the Georgia code against Judge William Redd, Jr., ordinary of Muscogee county, for $500, alleging that the girl is a minor, being only fourteen years of age, and that the marriage license was issued without the consent of himself or his wife. If a judgment should be obtained the money would go to the school fund under the law. This is the first time in many years that such a suit has been brought in Muscogee county. The license was issued under representations by young Whatley and his father Green Whatley, that the girl was nearly 18 years of age, and that there was no objection to the marriage. Thomas has sued out a warrant against the two Whatleys charging them with kidnapping in that they "inveigled away a minor girl under 18 years of age against the consent of her parent."