Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-10-22
NUMBER 90.
lFron the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Of September 2a1
Double Ei0pement The Box er and Dean Case
Outdone.

iFron the Cleveland Plain Dealer. of September
Double Ei0pement-The Boxer and Dean Ca 81
Outdone
Mr.. Lloyd. a highly respectable farme
OF Wickliff, arrived in this city last evening
IN an excited state OF mind. He sought ou
MarsheA Gallagher and told him that his tvs
daughters had eioped II pulny night wi ith 1--WE
hired men, brothers, and named respectively
Chauncy Lewis and Watson Lewis. MIR.
Lloyd said he thought they were in this city.
! The Marshal put ON his seven league boots
and commenced walking rapidly round the
city He found the enterprising parties at
last at the Franklin House, on Pearl street
WaisoD Lewis had already married one of
the sisters and dretircd for the night. Cliaun-
! ey Lewis was making arrangements to mar
ry the otheE sister when the Marshal ap-
peared and took him aud his inteD.ed to the
police station. Locking Chauncy Lewis 10
liz the Watch House. Mr.. LIoyd took his
daughter TO the Commercial House and lock-
ed her up in u room.
MIR. Lloyd, in addition 10 being In extern
siye and tiourishing fariner, keeps tavern in
Wicklff, which Is very favorably known |
throughout this section. 1t is located near
the lakeshore, and near where The steamer
Griffith was burned some years since. Mr.. |
l.. owns some four hundred and fiiiy acres |
OF land in Wickliffe and is quite wealthy I
His daughters are named Mary und Laura.
Mary is about twenty ye4fs old and L1ura !
about sixteen. They are splendid looking /
girls and are fashionably ard richly dressed I
They are both well educated, huv;ng enjoy
ed superior advantages in this respect.
The Lewis brothers are uncUuth, unedu-
Gated and overgrown specimens of humuni-
ty, and can neither read or write. They
hired out to Mr.. Lloyd some six months ago.
He paid Watson, the eldest one, $ls and
Chauncy $40 month. Chauncy Lewis,
the young man who didn't get married and T
who pussed the night in the watch-house, is
a sleepy and stupid appearing young man.
We doubt if he knows enough TO exercise |
the sagacity of common Shanghaie chick |
en- and go under cover when it rains. He |
was released this morning at the suggestion
of Mr.. Lloyd and requested to "scoot," which
he hastily did. He promised, with tears in !
his eyes, never to come within ten miles of
Wickliffe again. The married brother of
course cannot be interfered with.
The parties eloped at about II O'Clock on
Monday night and were not missed until
yesterday morning. The brothers hired
horse and buggy at Willoughby, and went
to Mr.. Lloyd's house where the girls were
awaiting them, with their trunks all packed. |
The girls left the house noiselessly and got |
into The buggy and moved slowly towards
Cleveland. One of the brothers walked all |
the way here (about sixteen miles) and the
other rode and drove. Arriving here they /
stopped at the Commercial House. In the
evening Justice was called in and Watson
and Mary were married. Chauncy and I
Laura concluded to postpone being united
until this merning, which conclusion |
fortunately enabled Mr.. Lloyed TO prevent
the ceremony. The parties all moved
from the Commercial to the Franklin,
where they were found as above stated.
This is a mostremarkable case of elope-
ment that we ever heard of. 1t utterly E.
clipses the Boxer and Dean case. What
two handsome and cultivated girls. as the |
Misses Lloyd certainly were, could find to nd- |
mire in such fellows as the Lewis brothers, |
is more than we can imagine. Mr.. Lloyd |
and his wife are overwhelmed with grief by |
this ;nexplicable conduct Of their daug hters. !