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Show Lovers Overcome Many Obstacles I EXCITING ELOPEMENT OF A KANSAS KAN-SAS COUPLE. COLORED MAN THE CUPID Drives Pair at Breakneck Speed to Home of Priest Bridegroom Has 8trenuoui Time Before Olrl Becomes His Wife. Atchison, Kan. Phil Hnllcr and Miss Edith Raymond, thu Inttcr now Mrs. Phi! Hnllcr, are thu hero and heroine, or villain and heroine, depending de-pending upon tho viewpoint, of tho most dramatic and exciting elopement of tho year. Thoy wero married and havo lived happily over since, after nn hour of tho most strenuous efforts thnt tivor wero forced upon a young couple. Hnllcr, Hnl-lcr, In an hour, hnd as much incitement incite-ment ns Jacob had lu tho focrteon years ho served for Rebecca. Mr. Hnllcr and Miss Raymond lived horo. Thoy wore In lovo with each other, and tho complications consisted Mailer Mixed with the Girl's Father. of opposition on tho part of tho parents par-ents of MIbs Raymond to hor fiance. Miss Edith Is a graduate of tho Atchison high school, nnd sho was 18 years old when sho fell In lovo with Haller. Thoro really wasn't anything tho matter with Haller. Ho may havo been a bit wild and a bit reckless, and possibly ho did not show duo and proper respect for tho parents of tho girl he had selected for his bride. All of theso things Mr. and Mra. Raymond sot up as Indictments against him. Miss Edith was a member of tho famous fa-mous Heau Not Club until sho toll In lovo with Haller. Tho girl's parents strenuously opposed op-posed tho mutch, nnd Hnllcr pressed his suit quito ns strenuously. Miss Raymond was determined to wed tho man of hor choice, and her parents wore quito as determined that sho should not. Early In September tho young couple cou-ple decided that to gain tho consent of tho parents to their wedding wns Impossible, bo they agreed to bo married mar-ried with or without tho consent, and Haller prepared a homo for his bride. Ho mado arrangements, secured his license, and tho priest was waiting. Tho problem thnt then presented ltsulf wus ono of getting bis bride away from her parents. Ho engaged, n cab driven by a colored man named Jim, who, desplto his color and his lack of wings, agreed to piny Cupid and help tho young couplo. Tho cab drovo up In front of tho Raymond homo, and Its appearance was the signal sig-nal tor tho beginning of ono of the most exciting elopomcnts that has nmaonryvyrMTnninnnnrin-rM-M taken placo slnco young Lochlnvar camo out of tho West. Tho arrival of tho cab started hoc-tllltles. hoc-tllltles. Mrs. Raymond appeared at tho front door nnd ordered Haller away Just as Miss Raymond hurled her suit enso out of tho uecond-Ktory window nnd callnd out that she would bo down In a few minutes. Attired In 1 her graduation dress, Miss Raymond 7H started downstairs. Her mother rn- ' treated Insldo tho house nnd locked, the Hnllur, seeing his sweetheart held .H prisoner, uprang from tho cnb and rushed up on tho porch. He reached tho front door Just ns Mr. Raymond unlocked tho door to come out and ,B rcmotiatrnto with Hnllcr. They met nt tho door. Hnllcr shoved his foot ngalnst It. Mr. Raymond tried tn closo It. Ho was too late. Haller broku through tho door nnd ho nnd his fath or-ln-la'w-to-bo mixed In tho hallway. They woro going fast, both strong nnd lively, when Airs. Raymond Joined , In, to aid hor husband. It Is alleged that Haller caught hor, swung her around and throw her off tho porch to thu ground, three feot bolnw. Tblu treatment from n prospective Bon-ln-law so affected Mrs. Raymond that she was overcome by nervous hysteria. Hor husband summoned a physician, and during tho excitement Miss Edith. clnd In her commencement gown, oh caped thu house nnd leaped Into tho carrlngo. Hor father wns In hot pur-suit pur-suit and leaped Into tho carrlngo alter hor. Jim, tho driver, camo to tho as-slstanco as-slstanco ot tho girl, who was 'resist-Ing 'resist-Ing bur father's efforts to drag her back Into tho house. Jim and Mr. Raymond wrestled out of tho carriage nnd whllo thoy woro scrambling on tho ground Hnllcr leaped on to the driver's Bent, and, lashing tho horses, started away with his bride. He raced away for two flocks then inado tho tactical error ot stopping to wait for Jim to catch up. Jim arrived, after running a dead heat with Mr. Ray-mond, Ray-mond, and as Jim climbed onto thn driver's sent Mr. Raymond ngnlu leaped into tho carriage with his fl daughtor. Meantime neighbors hnd tolophoned tho pollco nud Policeman Wilson went on tho run to stop tho nllcged rlgt, Jim had resumed control of tho reins nnd wan riding with tho groom on tho box, whllo Insldo tho cnb Mr. Rnymond nnd his daughter were en-gaged en-gaged In strenuous argument. Mr. Raymond hurled his daughter's suit JH caso out of tho cnb window, but by that timo tho cnb wns going so rap-Idly rap-Idly that ho could do nothing more. Pnllceman'WIIson missed conncc-tlons, conncc-tlons, nud us ho arrived at tho Ray-mond Ray-mond home, whore the doctor was working iivcr Mrs. Raymond, Chief ot Pollco Sullivan, ut headquarters, saw a cab with a man in holiday attire and a negro on tho box nnd an excited man inside flash past tho station. He pursued tho cnb on foot Deputy Sheriff Ulssong Jolnod tho chase. Across town went tho cnb, with Jim and Duller nnd Mr. Raymond nnd his daughter Insldo, nnd with tho chluf ot police and doputy sheriff In pursuit on Tho cnb fiuully stopped In front of St. Benedict's church, just as. the two ' officers overtook it. Chief Sullivan's only comment was "Oh, h II" Tho panting and exhausted bridal 'M party entered thu church parlors and there Mr. Raymond mado hla laet-cf-fort. Ho pleaded with Father Glrard to rufuso to marry tho couplo. Father Glrard decided thnt as thoy wero bot,h of legal ago thoy might as woll be married there na anywhere Tho paternal blessing was not forth-coming, forth-coming, but Haller sccurod the bride he had won uftor tho most strenii- . , oils courtship In modern annals. Jim drove (hem to tholr new home In triumph. |