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Howard Courant
July 10, 1913

Too Much Married

George L. Bruner, who lived on the county line between Elk and Chautauqua, is in trouble for being married to two women at the same time, and as a side line of the law infraction, running away with mortgaged property.  On April 6th, he was married to Miss Nancy Patterson, a highly respected young woman of Chautauqua county.  Some weeks ago, a woman in Indiana wrote the new Mrs. Bruner's father that she had first claim on Bruner and the case was turned over to the county attorney.  Bruner caught on that trouble was coming, so last week he hiked out, taking a team on which the Grenola Dentons had a mortgage.   He was caught at Vinita, last week, and Sheriff Munsinger went down and brought him back and lodged him in the Elk County jail.  He promptly gave bond, however, and is now out till next term of court.