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Show YOUNGSTER IS ARID Elopes With Girl and 1 Threatens to Kill His Pursuers r San Diego, Cal., March 29 --Armed with two revolvers and determined to . do battle for the lady of his choice agalusl any odds, Thomas Foreman, the 17-year-old son of a wealthy merchant mer-chant of this place, for the second time eloped last night with Gertrude Seifert, his Vj car-old sweetheart, and headed for Death Valley In an auto. Hi.s progress was stayed by the snow , which blocked the roads ai Dos Canos, ; I miles east of here, and It Is re- , I ported lhat a battle has occurred at j j that place, the youthful lichlnvar ; i standing off the posse which set out j i in pursuit All wires to res Canos are down and It is impossible to so- j cure details. Young Foreman's first attempt to : elope with iMIss Seifert was made , abort a week ago. but the couple were captured at Santa Ana. en route to I-os Angeles, and brought back. A pofis? took up tho trail In au automobile, auto-mobile, overtaking Foreman's machine ma-chine a mile and a half beyond Des Canos. It was stuck in a suow bank. Foreman, when he saw the posse approach, ap-proach, grabbed the girl by the arm and the two ran swiftly to a clump of brush .Into which they plunged. A3 he ran he fired several shots at the pursuers, wbo refrained from replying for feor of hitting the girl. t lien ouercu io Mirreuurr roremtin hotly declared he would kill as many, of his pursuers as he could, and then kill the girl and hlmBelf. Fear that he will carry his threat into execution has prevented a rush on his hiding place. At. 1 o'clock this afternoon word was received to the effect that young Foreman and Miss Seifert, supplied with provisions, had abandoned their ambuscade near Des Canos, eluded ' the nosse and were fleeing on foot I across ft mountain in the direction of Cuymaca. The trail has been taken and the father of the girl. In an automobile, auto-mobile, has started around the mountain moun-tain t'head off tho couple. The boy Is firmed with a repeating rifle, In addition to two revolveis. |