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Show Eight-Year-Old Would-Be Bigamist Eloped With Two Little Girls, Looked ( for Preacher and "Was Sent to Heform School. .Special to Tho Tribune. SYRACUSE. X. Y April 20. Bernard Jennings, age S, is now learning a trade In -the St. Vincent Vin-cent de Paul's Industrial as a pcnf-lty for desiring to marry a couple A little girls. He Induced Hazel and Hatlie McAllister. Mc-Allister. 7 and 5 years, respectively, to elope with him. lie carried his clothing cloth-ing and theirs under his arm and visited numerous houses before he was arrested asking for a "preacher and a washerwoman." "When the policeman gavo chasv the boy proved a sprinter of no small ability, but ho was overtaken, and on recommendation of his mother was sent to the reform school as an incorrigible. The girls were returned to their parents. |