Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-08-19 | Page 8 | Wild Ride for a Bride

Newly Married Man in Auto Wins Against a Train Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 19. F. S. Michael, a modern Lochinvar, used a racing automobile, au-tomobile, instead of a steod, outwitted the parents of his bride and gained poBscsslon of his wife in an unusual manner Thursday night Michael and Miss Edith Rogers, of Boxlcy, Ga., were married in Atlan-ta, Atlan-ta, Sunday Tho young woman had slipped away from tho homo fit relatives rela-tives whom she was visiting When she returned she found tho news of her marriage had preceded her. She was confined to the ouse and denied de-nied the privilege of communication with her husband. On Thursday, Michael leared that his bride, accompanied by an elderly woman, had boarded a fast Southeru passenger train. He obtained a powerful power-ful motor cor and was soon racing tho train to the first stop, ten miles away, arriving there as soon as the train pulled Into the depot. Ho ran through tho cars and found his wife and carried her from tho train to tho waiting automobile, before the astonished aston-ished passengers realized what was happening. Michael and his wife then returned to Atlanta.