Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-10-05
Double Elopement-TwoB Brothers RIM Ofs
with Two Sisters

lFrom the Cleveland PiaindeaIer, Sept. 29l
Mr. Lloyd, highly respectable farmer o
Wickliffe arrived in this CITY last eyenino in :,
excited state of mind. He sought out Marsha
Galiagher, and told him that his two daughter,
mad eloped on Monday night with two hired
men, brothers, and named respectively Cham.
cey Lewis and Watson Lewis Mr.. Lioyd said
ne thought they were in this city The Mar.
shal put on his seven-league boots and com.
menced walking rapidly around the CITY. He
found the enterprising parties at last at the
franklin House, on Pearl street. Watson Lewis
had already married one of the sisters and re.
tired for the night; Chauncey Lewis was making
arrangements to marry the other sister, when
the Marshal appeared and took him and his
intended to the police station. Locking Chaun.
cey Lewis up in the watch house, Mr. Llovd
took his daughter to the Commercial Honsa
and locked her up in a room
Mr.. Lloyd, in addition to being an extensive
and fourishing farmer, keeps a tavern in
Wicklife, which is very fayorablv known
through this section. 1t is located nsar rVT. tS.
lake shore. and near where the ill.fated
steamer Gritf tn was burned some wears since
Mr.. L.. owns some four hundred and fftv acres
OF land In Wickliffe and is quite wealthy. His
daughters are named Mary and Laura Mary
is about twenty years old, and Laura about
sixteen. They are splendid looking girls, and
are fashionably and richly dressed They are
both we'll educated, having enioyed superior
advantages in this respect
Ihe Lewis brothers are uncouth uneducated
and oyergrown specimens of humanity. and
can neither read nor write. They hired out TO
MI. Lloyd some six months ago. He paid
watson, the eldest one, Sl3, and Chauncey
$40 q month. Chauncey Lewis the young
man who didn't get married and who passed
the night in the watch-house is a very sleepy
and stupid appearing young man. We doubt
III ne Knows enough to exercise the sagacity of
common Shanghae chicken and 90 under
cover when 1t 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 eleven O'Clock
on Monday night night and were not missed
until yesterday morning. The brothers hired
q horse and buggy at Willoughby's, 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 the parties moved slowly to-
wards Cleveland. One of the brothers walked
all Of the way here about sixteen miles, and
the other rode and drove Arriving here thew
Stopped at the Commercial Houss In the
evening justice was called in and Watson and
Mary were married. Chauncey and Laura
concluded to postpone being united until this
morning, which conclusion fortunately enabled
Mr.. Lloyd to prevent the ceremony The par
ties all moved from the Commercial to the
franklin, where they were found as above
stated.
This is the most remarkable case of clone
ment We ever heard Of IL utterly eclipses
the Boxer and Dean case What two handsome
and cultivated girls as the Misses Lloyd, GER
tainly were, could find to admire in two such
fellows as the Lewis brothers, is more than we
can imagine. Mr.. Lloyd and his wife are over
whelmed with grief by the inex plicable conduct
of their daughters.