Clackamas County OR Archives Marriages.....Nelson, Helen C - Housley, Jesse M July 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com December 25, 2006, 6:52 pm Canby Herald July 23,1925 Bride Of One Day Asks For Annulment Suit Charges Use Of Drugs in Candy To Gain Consent To Marry Him Story Changes Some Bride of one day was mistaken to whom heart belonged,she informed officers Canby again figures conspicously in one of those sensational Vancouer weddings.It was Jesse M.Housley,24,who has made his home on R.F.D.No.1,with his parents,who was placed in the limelight Friday when his bride of twenty four hours,formerly Miss helen C.Nelson of Portland,appealed to the circuit court in Multnomah county to have her marriage annulled on the ground that she was fed"queer tasting candy" which robbed her of her will power. During the investigation of the "doped candy" story,Mrs.Housley is said to have admitted to the police officers in Portland that she married Housley willingly.And when the officers became convinced that the dope feature of the story was all a hoax they refused to have anything more to do with it. Mrs.Housley,it seems,had been keeping company with a young fellow named Fred Bowers,and is said,to have been engaged to marry him. "I thought I loved Mr.Housley," she is reported to have informed the Portland officers,"but after I was married to him I decided I liked Mr.Bowers better.I went to my father and together we went to an attorney's office and filed the suit."In her complaint in the annulment suit the bride makes the following statements of the case,as published ini the Oregonian Saturday morning. "Housley,who lives with his father on a farm near Canby,but who spends much of his time in Portland,appeared Thursday night at her home and asked her to go for a ride. After driving about town they started for Vancouver.When told where they were going,Miss Nelson said she asked that she be taklenhome,she said,and as they neared the interstate bridge.Miss Nelson said,she began to feel drowsy and listless,the effect,she believed,of some candy given her by Housley and the Gormans,who were with them. At Vancouver,according to the complaint,Miss Nelson protested against the marriage that had been proposed.Housley,she said,told her if she didn't marry him,the"man she did love would be found with his throat cut."Housley also threatened to "knock her out",she said,and fearful for her safety,weak and lacking her usual will power,she went through the ceremony in a daze. Bowers says he is going to marry the woman as soon as her marriage to Housley can be annulled,but it is yet very uncertain how soon this will be File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/clackamas/vitals/marriages/nelson216gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb