[News Script: Court of inquiry] Part: 1 of 6

                                
COURT OF INQUIRY 1-1-1
Justice of the Peace Richburg conducts a qourt
of inquiry into the marriage of ,a 12-year-old
g irl and an 18-year-old youth, both of
Dallas. The judge hears testimony from the girls
mother, who says friends of the groom prevented
her from locating her daughter. The mother also
says she never signed an affidavit sing the girl

was 14 and giving the girl permission to marry.
There's an interruption in the court proceedings.
i    n
omeone keeps blowing a car horn outside, and the

judge sends deputy constable Hood out to stop it.
A couple of kil9s in a car are the culprits. They're
told to lay off the horn, and they do.
BACK IN COURT
Meanwhile, back in the courtroom, the judges
hears more testimony from the Rev. W. W. Stogner,

who married the couple.

*he Re       gner says

he checked the couple's affidavit with the