TOPSY-TURVY ROMANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 9038, 30 December 1907, Page 6

TOPSY-TURVY ROMANCE.

The re core! for weird matrimoual complications which are possible under the laws of many American States has been broken by a daring resident of Manlius, New \ork, who has married Ills grandmother. This feat is the climax to a romantic plot for the possession of a fortune. The “grandson bridegroom,’’ Mr Thomas Hugh Allison, is a businesslike young man, with strong sporting proclivities. Until seven years ago he and his sister were joint heirs to the estate of their grandfather. Dr Buffum, of Rochester, New York, a very wealthy and irascible physician. Dr Bufl'um survived his wife and children, and lie had frequent quarrels with his grandchildren. He disinherited Miss Allison when she married a barber, and finally cut off his grandson as well because he kept racehorses. He thei* announced his intention of marrying again in order to prevent Mr Allison from getting ids money. Mr Allison thereupon conceived the plan of marrying his sweetheart a girl under twenty, to Ids grandfather. She made Dr. Buffum’s acquaintance, and finally, in 1900, when he was eighty years old, lie proposed marriage. The girl promptly accepted. Dr Buffum died last year, leaving everything to his young wife. “Then,” said Mr Allison recently, “the young lady whom I called ‘grandmother’ waited the ‘conventional’ time, and we were married. “My wife has insisted that we give half of the estate to Dir sister, and tliis has been done.