SNODGRASS-YOUNG
Kentucky Bridegroom Gives Bail and Returns to Answer Charge After the Wedding
The marriage in Springfield, Ky., of Miss Glagel Young to W.H. Snodgrass, of Morganfield , Ky., the other day was a quiet enough affair and the guests would have been surprised beyond measure if they had been told that the first stage of the wedding tout would be in Louisville police court. Snodgrass woke up in jail where he had been taken for being drunk and carrying a concealed weapon. What day is this he asked. Monday said the guard.

I can't stay here any longer. I am going to be married in Springfield tomorrow. I've simply got to go. Send for a lawyer.

Alen Kinney was summoned and got Judge Wilson's consent to release the prisoner on $50 cash bail, he having $65 on his person.

This Snodgrass said he could not afford to do, as he needed the money for a wedding trip. He was told he would have to go back to jail, so he begrudgingly put up the $50, promised to appear in court and left for Springfield. The marriage took place on time.

Leaving Springfield the bride and groom came back to Louisville and appeared in court to answer the charge. The judge had compassion on him, and admiring his brave combat against the circumstances over which he won his bride at the appointed hour, commuted the charges and simply entered a fine of $25. This was paid and the newly married couple, having procured fresh funds, set out on their journey anew.

The bride is the daughter of Benjamin Young, a prominent farmer, and Mr. Snodgrass is a well to do merchant of Morganfield.
Date: 1904-12-23; Paper: The Biloxi Daily Herald - Donated by: Brenda Duckworth

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