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QUINN O'BRIEN - Former Assistant Corporation Counsel Quinn O'Brien 71, who charged that he was kidnapped and forced to marry Miss Marguerite Eustice in 1937 is dead. Apparently the victim of a heart ailment O'Brien died Wednesday night (5 February 1941) at the home of a son. He alleged that in February 1937 Miss Eustice and six other persons including her father, Dr. William Eustice, Elizabeth IL abducted him and took him to Morrison IL where a justice of the peace presided at a wedding ceremony. The following July Miss Eustice gave birth to a son and named him Quinn O'Brien Jr. On Feb. 9, 1939 the Illinois Appellate Court ruled invalid the marriage and reversed a circuit court annulment granted two months after the marriage. In a subsequent action Miss Eustice sued for divorce and support for her son, alleging that she and O'Brien went through what she thought was a wedding ceremony in Louisville KY on Derby Day 1936. This action was dismissed. O'Briens wife died 10 years ago. A daughter and two sons survive. (The Freeport Journal Standard 7 February 1941).

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