SEVENTH AND SEVENTEEN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10112, 6 October 1910, Page 3

SEVENTH AND SEVENTEEN.

MARRIES HIS STENOGRAPHER. Within an hour after he was indicted by the Federal Grand Jury at New York on a charge of conspiracy in using the mails for fraudulent purposes, and after furnishing £SOOO bail, Colonel Christopher Wilson, president of the United Wireless Telephone Company, aged 70, a widower, with several adult children, married his stenographer, Miss Stella Lewis, seventeen year 3 of age, and started on his honeymoon, seemingly free from care, and happy. The marriage of Colonel Wilson is the culmination of a romance which began in his private office a little less than two years ago, when he met Miss Lewis, an unusually pretty girl. More than a month ago a rumour was current that Wilson was to marry the girl, and the report was spread widely that the ceremony was to take place in a short time. All the girl stenographers in tne office noticed the president's attention to Miss Lewis, and seemed "confident that something would happen

At that time Colonel Wilson was asked whether he had any intention of marrying, and he took the question as a huge joke, laughing heartily at the idea that he, a septuagenarian, should be considering matrimony with a girl so young. Moreover, his late wife had died only a year ago in England.