Looking Back

100 years ago

Cheyenne man charges his wife with fraud. Cheyenne, Wyo. — That Olga Wurst, a young woman of probably thirty years, married him merely to swindle him, and with full knowledge at the time that she was the wife of another man, is the complaint of Henry Smith, seventy-six, in an appeal to the District Court to annul and cancel a note for $2,500, secured by a mortgage on Cheyenne real estate worth twice that sum, given by him to his bride on the day of their wedding and now held by Amelia M. Johnson. Smith asserts that less than a month after their marriage his bride deserted hi...