Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01
An Alleged Elopeident ana """'
Came OF 10.
A wnsrMiNsrER BOY SPEAKS FOR HIM
SELF.

Came OF 10.
wrsr,oSsrER BOY SPEAKS FOR HIM
SELF.
From the St. Johnsbury Caledonian. Feb. l6
Our place came near being the scene
of frst-class sensation one day last
week. 1t seems young fellow named
Ellis eloped from Winchendon, Mass,
with an orphan girl under age. They
came to this place and attempted to get
marriage certificate, but our town clerk
would not grant it. They stopped at one
of the Farnham's, an acquaintance of
the family, In day or two an agent
of the guardian arrived in town, and
taking sheriff Weeks, soon found the
girl and took her in charge at the Aven-
ue House. The wouldbe husband was
away wher. this took place, and when he
returned and comprehended the situa-
ton, he made for the Avenue House post
haste. Arriving there he called for his
girl. The sheriff told him she was going
home, when he asked Jennie for last
embrace, which was had there before
large and interested audience, when the
girl departed by the train, and Ellis re-
manned.
Soon after this, sheriff Weeks received
orders to look Ellis over for a certain
described gold watch. This was done,
but the watch was not found \; but GER
tain persons were found who testified
that they had seen such watch in the
possession of Ellis, and he was bound up
for his appearance at court. MIR. Gree
lev, the teamster, bailed him.
| From the St. Johnsbury Caledonian. Feb. %.
THAT ELopEMENT--Mr. Editor IL
notice in your paper of February 10Th,
under the head of Local and State
News" an article headed by the apos-
trophe San Elopement and What Be
cline of It." / think that local news
like indifferent music may be neither
good nor bad; but the article referred
to has positive quality which wish
YOU. in the next number of the Caledo'
MAN to notice, although it may leave the
patrons of your paper in the village O.
st. Johnsbury "out of breath, all to nc
purpose" so far as the young fellow FL
lie, and the orphan girl are necessary tc
perfect the drama. The unimportant de
tails of your note are sufficiently dehn
lite to leave no doubt upon my mind tha
the young fellow, Ellis, as yoa call him
and your correspondent are one and the
same person. 1t will follow, therefore
that | am familiar with all the partlcu
lars which came so near furnishing {
scene sufficient to create a first-class sen
E sation in St. Johnsbury last week.
III understand the definition of elope
E ment, suppose you mean a clandestin'
departure from some place, against thu
wishes or consent, either expressed or i'm
piled of another. In my case such fact
are wholly waning. | came to st. Johns
| bury a few weeks since to establish b.
honest industry and few hundred dol
lars as an outfit, a residence in northeast
!. ern Vermont, it being my native State
I having been born and brought up i
a Westminster, Vermont. came to 81
3 Johnsbury with the girl mentioned il
n your note. She is an orphan, her fathe
!. was killed in the battle of the Wilder
ness. She has mother living In West
a minister, who was acquainted with GU
q intention to establish for ourselves, at
proper time, joint home.
I Your narrative is also destitute 9
|. truth, as it relates to my being bound u
# to court for having in my possession
a watch that did not belong to me. You
n note also, being, in all its essential pa
II ticulars, untrue, and of defamator
i character, l ask of you to publish tn
= note as an act of justice to me, and as
: protection to yourself as l suppose 70
= have been imposed upon by being mis'r
r formed by some villain from your ow
neighborhood, whose conduct, when e'
D. posed, as it is about to be by legal IL
X vestigation, will not fail of producing
m first-class sensation among the law-abi'
ing citizens of St. Johnsbury.
WESLEY E. ELLIS.
L. Feb, 10, 1872.