The Barre Daily Times

MISS KEENEY GIVES
UP DR. VERMILYE

After Failure to Get Interview with Her Expected Husband and After Learning That He Already Has a Wife.

Monson, Mass., Dec. 29.—Miss Ruth M. Keeney, the Bucknell university professor of Spanish, who was left waiting at the church here Christmas day when Dr. William Grey Vermilye of New York failed to appear for their announced wedding, said to-day she had closed the affair. Miss Keeney, with her father, George L. Keeney, returned to their home after an unsuccessful attempt to interview Dr. Vermilye at the New York hospital, to which he went for treatment on the day he was expected to be married.

They said they were still unable to explain Dr. Vermilye's failure to appear for the ceremony, or his statement that he first learned of the plans from someone else. But with reports that Dr. Vermilye's second wife is alive and he is still married to her, Mr. Keeney said he and his daughter felt they were "well rid of the whole matter, and very thankful that it went no farther."

In connection with the physician's statements and attitude, Mr. Keeney said his daughter had an engagement ring given her by Dr. Vermilye and that the doctor had asked him for her hand in marriage during a visit here in September. Miss Keeney showed a newspaper man the ring which she said was given her by Vermilye. He assured her, she said, that he was free to marry.