100 years ago
Raymond Smith of Hudson, 17, married Mary Vail, a widow twice his age with three children, and the teen’s mother wanted her son arrested. The couple were wed by the Rev. Herman Hageman in Claverack days before and subsequently disappeared.
According to his mother, Mrs. Henry Smith of Union Street in Hudson, he had sworn to a lie to obtain a license to marry the older neighbor with whom he’d become infatuated, and she requested police arrest her son on a charge of perjury. According to Mrs. Smith, the youthful bridegroom told her he was going to the movies on the day he left town to get married and she had not heard from him since…