Show 14 Runaway Lovers Often Fail i ft 1I 1 I jj j i Runaway lovers arc not alivnys sue i fceesful The record of failures attain 11 r proportions of some magnitude Fro i quenlly the wouldbe bride IS I brought t home to mother and father In tears and I only the age of the wouldbe giodm pre t vents him being spanked i k Some of these failures contain as I i much excitement to the lml l hour ns i f nny of the successful runaway matches I The failure usually results from lathe f i f c getting a tip on the proposed affair and Siting chit after the youthful pair I with all the speed he can command As the father can call on the pollce jnen and the magistrates to help him he I It is a favorlt3 in this matrimonial handicap handi-cap unless the runaways have secured several Japs lead on him r As the result of one of these affairs I Mrs Jessie Borngosser i is I applying to I the courts In St JLoula to get her husband hus-band buck Father enught up this time 1 Li little late but in time to cause the separation The marriage ceremony hail taken place but he grubbed his sdn by the coat and marched him oft despite de-spite the tears of his newlywedded wife Jessie cried hut Harry her husband was taken back home and locked up In his room That was a direful plight tor a new husband hut Harry could not mend matters Meals were brought into in-to him and lectures were read through the keyhole He stormed and threatened threat-ened but it did not do any good Meanwhile his wife was endeavoring to get him out She appealed lo a law yor who decided that writ of habeas corpus would solve the problem and Judge McDonald took a hand In the aliatter He summoned the father to appear before him and show cause why TI writ should not be granted and his ron restored to liberty and Jessie II is probable that Jessie will win out In st Joseph Mo a runaway match was spoiled after all the plans had succeeded suc-ceeded up to the point of getting the r license Arthur Stll vcll and Agnes Ryan had planned to marry without parental consent since that could not be secured They were the children of farmers living to the south of St Joseph Agnes put on her wraps one evening i httd announced that she intended to visIt vis-It a friend She did but not the friend her parents thought she was going to fee She met Stll well and they set out for an allnight drive to St Joseph It happened that a couple of hours after she had left hone her father decided to walk to the neighbors house and bring his daughter back with him when he retnrnpd The result of this visit was the discovery dis-covery that his daughter hud not been there during the evening The plan was Immediately surmised but how to slop It was u puzzle There were no trains available for St Joseph until the next morning and it would be impossible impos-sible to reach that city in time to head off the wedding To set out In pursuit in a wagon after the start the runa was had secured was equally Impossible Impossi-ble The telegraph office was closed and it did not open until 10 oclock in the morning which would not take the morning Which would be too late to send an order to the marriage license official If word could be gotten to him the father knew that the marriage p would not take place Ills daughter was under age and his consent was needed This he had no intention of giving It was a predicament for father and It looked like an easy victory for Cupid Fat was against them however It happened that t a severs storm had done considerable damage to the telegraph wires throughout that section of the j country and a gang of linemen were working during r the night repairing them J One of thfese gangs Included an operator op-erator with wire tapping apparatus u Father met them on thr way home and Op the Idea occurred to him The wires were working into St Joseph and he 1 persuaded the operator with a couple of dollars to send a message to the Judge at St Joseph i When Arthur and Agnes presented themselves the next morning at the end J of their long ride the Judge welcomed them r themOh yes he said HI know all about 1 y6u but T am sorry to say that r cant issue the license tour father objects he said to Miss Agnes They took the next train home I At The Dalles the two runaways I J both fell into the hands of the police I and both were locked Up The boy now Is facing a serious charge and the parents pa-rents of the bridetobe are threatening to punish him to the fullest extent possible pos-sible He has been guilty of nothing more than endeavoring to harry their daughter butt that Is a serious crinie in their eyes Some parents think hatS hat-S the young man who tries to marry their j J daughter Is on a plane with the horse t thief and should be treated accordingly accord-ingly r The Sheriff of Whitman county was sent after them and they were taken I back to their homes Glen Young the I son of a farmer in Pullman and Maud 1 Babcock were the runaways They look I a boat at Almota on the Snake river I > find endeavored to beat a telegram to I 7 The DaIles The telegram won out and the marriage was declared off Two Delaware runaways have just been defeated after a chase which began be-gan In that Slate and ended In PIUs burg They left their homes separately and were met In Baltimore They were Paul Brlghtman the son of a wealthy contractor and Miss Elsie Wldman daughter of a business man of wealth Both were liberally supplied with money or the long chase would not have been possible Tho parents received word of the flight after the runaways had started They telegraphed the police at Baltimore I 1 Balti-more to slop the two thinking they were traveling together Both saw each other at the railroad station in Baltimore I Balti-more but the boy also saw a number of policemen eyeing the girl carefully and he Just managed to motion her not to rEcognize him The police were not sure of their Iden l tification of the girl and were waiting for a young man to step up to her be 1 fore they made the arrest Brlghtman caught step with another man awaiting a train and with him walked past the 11 girl As he did so he remarked as If to f hl8 companlon Yes I dont like the looks of this i place I think Ill go on to Washing l ton tonThe The man beside whom he was walk f Ing thought the young fellow was talk f ing in his sleep but the girl heard him and that was enough He bought his I ticket to Washington She did the same The policemen watched her but I < 1 could not strengthen their suspicion that she was the young woman for whom they were looking and they al lowed her to get aboard the train There the two were safe for awhile L but Brightman expected that at Vash lngton the same trouble would be encountered en-countered and he warned Miss AVidman not to get off the train unless he drop I I ped his handkerchief as he stood on the platform When he got off he found the policeman police-man watching the arrivals and quickly pulled tnt his handkerchief and dropped drop-ped I The girl remained on the t train and before It pulled out he swung on again They went on to Pittsburg and there were caught More complete descriptions de-scriptions had betin sent ahead The father of the girl hail gone to Baltimore Balti-more and had learned 1 by inquiries that a girl reseirlbllng his daughter hat been them and had taken the train for Washington Telegraphic Inquiries there revealed the fact that the girl had not left the train The supposition was that they would arrive In Pittsburg that t evening A short distance outside the city two detectives entered the car and the runaway were quickly Identified led They were taken back home for parental ricoldlny When they get older they may be able to change the paternal feeling Tribune in regard lo the matter Chicago |