Weds Heiress; Deserts Her

Bride Returns Home Without Her Husband and Money.

WASHINGTON, Pa., Nov. 3 -- A week's courtship, followed by a hasty marriage and a honeymoon trip to Cleveland and Chicago, was followed by the desertion in the latter city of Miss Nina Emily McLeod, local society belle and daughter of Mrs. E.A. McLeod, widow of an oil operator, it became known today when the bride returned from Chicago without her husband.

With the bridegroom, when he disappeared between acts while the newlyweds were enjoying a performance in a Chicago theater, went $5,000, the proceeds of a sale of United States Steel stocks, given the husband, who said he was Edgar Douglas Thornburg of Thornburg, an exclusive suburb of Pittsburgh, by the bride's mother. Thornburg was to have disposed of the stocks and reinvested the money in another project. An information charging him with larceny has been made before a local alderman by a sister of the bride.

Whether Thornburg's desertion of his bride of only a few days was willful has not been determined, but the girl's mother has employed private detectives and started a countrywide search for him. The Chicago police and detectives have been asked to work on the case.

Thornburg, posing as a man of wealth and a religious worker, met the girl a few weeks ago, and it was apparently a case of love at first sight. Society gossiped at the hasty marriage and is now in a flurry as the result of the choice morsel of scandal.

--Des Moines Register, Nov. 4, 1917