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Show CONNECTICUT ELOPEMENTS. A Doctor Cou with a Wife and DaughterThe Daugh-terThe Girl Hoarder. Middletowx, An?. 2.-Tvvo elope-mciits elope-mciits m the land of steady habits a few-days few-days ago excited great surprise for they were queer ones. VV. W. Hurd, nigli't watchman for l.andou, Batchellor' & Co.'s factory in Bridgeport, went home the oilier morning, according to his habit, after his night's work and went to bed. lie slumbered heavily, awaking awak-ing 5-.:i0 in the afternoon. Having arisen, aris-en, ho was not long in discovering that us wife and daughter had stripped the house of its belongings, except those in his chamber, and eloped with somebody. some-body. I'he somebody, so Hurd believes, is a spurting physician in the neighbor- noon, vvno lias been verv attentive to mother and daughter. If his generosity gener-osity to the daughter is admissible evidence evi-dence in connecting him with dismantling dis-mantling the house and the departure of Mrs. and Miss Kurd, then the gav and lively doctor, the watchman avers, is the double-dyed villain. The doctor has presented pre-sented Miss Hurd with a good many things, among them being a gold wateli and chain, a diamond riug, a pair of horses, a piano, and a deposit of money in a local bunk, and the bank book, in which the deposit is iu her name. Hurd hasn't any idea where family, household house-hold goods, add doctor have betaken themselves. The elopement of John Powell, a married man of New Haven, and Miss Clara Quiun of tho same city, is au-other au-other odd one. Miss Clara had 'boarded witli tho Powells for some time, ami John was sweet with her. Finally ho told his wife to go to her father's home in Meriden for awhile, ami ho would go to Boston to find work. Husband and wife went their different ways, but John Powell didn't go very far. Ho took a riglit-about-faeo wheel, camo in to "New Haven, and ran awav with Clara. Mrs. Powell says Powell has gone and may stay, she won't hunt for him; but Clara Quinn's mother will make things lively for him if she linds him. |