Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-12-05
Elopement Extraordinary Proceed ings

The Claiborne Qa.) Advocate of the 3lst ult.
has an account ofan extraordinary series ofevents.
which is published under the heading, .Elope.
mcnt, marriage civil commotion, and bloodshcd,
and OF which the following is a condensation:
About four or six weeks ago there eloped from
Terryve in Claiborne parish, one Dr. Clement
and one Sarah T, Wafer an orphan hciress Of
Louisiana planter. being at the time at school at
Ierryvllle. 10 Arkansas they proceeded with
the utmost dispatch, where the nnptial ceremony
| was duly performed. -
On Their return the happy couple were met BY
the brother of the bride, who proceeded to chas
| Use the groom for the abduction of his sister-
Finally, however, they were allowed to proceed
to the residence of the Doctor in Arcadia. B;en-
VINE parish, whence, a few DAYS afterwards. the
prlde was summoned 10 the bedside of a sick sis
ter While at her house Mrs. Clement signed a
letter written by her brethernaw, in which she
accused her husband Of deception, cowardice. age
and ngllness, and avowing her determination not
to 1--we with him. She then accompanied her
sisferto Red River in the parish of Rossiter. and
took up her residence in the house of another
sister 4 ..Ele =. 80.
DR.. Clement followed in pursuit with ff,ecn
sta";lrt friends armed cap-a- pie, and demanded
the person OF Mrs. Clement, who under the cir
cumstances, yielded, on condition that she should
De takento the residence of her uncle, Rev. Mr.
Wafer, an estimable gentleman and be there al
lowed two DAYS for reflection as to her f1tnro
course. :.
Her brother Immediately raised force of
armed men, and undertook to rescue his sister
nut ON approaching the house of his uncle found
1t surrounded by the Doctors army. with cooked
guns and thought fit to retire.
lie immediately proceeded to Homer, and
made such representations as caused the iss,1-
ance OF warrant for the arrest of DR.. Clement
and party for the forciblc abduction and innris
onment OF his sister. The Deputy Sheriff. sum
moned a posse, to whom the Doctors marty sub
mttted.
Next morning. about nine o'clock, Claiborne
was thrown into violent connection by the sud.
aen appearance in its midst on horseback, and
Win donbte-barrclled guns of thc entire body of
men, some sixty in number, thrown together as
above stated, on the night previous, and in the
centre of the concoursc u,irabike d;ctu the hero
and heroine, seated side by side in buggy
me bloodshed spoken of above was caused bv
the accidental discharge of one of the guns Of
tins party, wounding lawyer who was standing
in his Office.
The parties were brought before a Justice for
t1al, anda habeas corpus was issued BY the
Judge ofthe Circuit Court and served upon the
Doctor, commanding him to produce the body
of his wife. The result of the trial was tb,, ii,
parties were discharged. But the trouble has
not ended here, for while the excitement was
gong on, our heroine was spirited away to parts
unknown; but the general opinion is that she has
been transported TO Arkansas, where she is pro.
teeted or guarded by forty double -barrelled Shot
guns and howitzer. And thitler considers
part OF the multitude recently assembled in Ciai-
oie borne nave betaken themselves, armed and
equipped as the law aoesn't direct.
IL appeared on the trial of Que of the writs that
MSS Wafer had been engaged TO a brother ofhe
sisser-,n-law; but, some person unknown having
forged letter parporting 10 be from her nance
wherein she was discarded, her clupement with
the Doctor was precipitated, and the unfortunate
glr! soon found that she was linked 10 a man
whom she could not love, and in fact, positively
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