The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-18
A ROMANTIC ELopEMENT.
With a Beautiful Qsrakeress In IL, And
How All Turned Ont for the Best.

A ROMANTIC EL0PEMENT.
With a Beautiful ouaheress In It, And
How All Turned Out for the Best.
The New York Mercarys tells this pretty
little story :: ~ .,..a..... = -.
About two miles northwest of Newark,
N. j., is located the little village of Was
sessing, and here an elderly, couple took
up their residence last May, giving their
names as Steinbrenner. Some two months
ago young lady of some twenty years
was seen in and ahout the neat little cot
tage, but she never appeared on the street,
nor did she visit any of the two or three
stores that form the business part OF the
town. Several times coach was seen
standing in front of the cottage, and tall,
fine-looking man was noticed getting in
and out of the same, visiting the Stein
brenners. Who the old people,. the girl,
and the strange man were seemed a mys-'
terry, notwithstanding all the efforts made
by the inquisitiye neighbors and the gos-
sipers of the town. : Last Monday an
other strange man appeared about the
town, and during the week, il was discov-
cred that he was watching the cottage and
the mysterious Steinbrennersy This man
always left in the evening by Conductor
WulCn SOco Oily do dS
Newark. On New Years morning one of
the neighbOrs heard loud talking in the
cottage, as if parties were quaIreling. and
noticed the coach standing in front of the
door. Presently they saw the young lady
come out, accompanied by the gentle
man who Lad been making daily visits
to the cottage and the man who had
been lettering about the town for the past
week. They drove off rapidly towards
Newark. and this was the last seen of them
by the Wassessingites. They crossed, it
seems, over into Hudson County and to the
residence of Squire Hall, where the young
girl and the regular visitor
WERE HASTILY MARRIED.
And now for the explanation of these
mysterious movements. The gentleman,
it subsequently transpired, was Gen. AL
fred Storms of Philadelphia. and the
young lady Miss Otto Louise Kellogg of
the same place, the daughter of very
wealthy old Quaker family. 1t seems that
the parents of the young girl, objecting to
her marriage with Storms. because he was
not believer in their faith. the TWO finally
agreed to elope, but Miss Kellogg was to
keep her marriage a secret.
Storms found the old couple, Steinbren-
ners, and they agreed to board the girl.
The girl informed her parents by note on
her departure from home, that, as they
would not let her marry Storms, she in
tended to enter convent, and that they
need never expect to lay eyes on her again,
as friends had agreed to get her in an insti-
tuition under an assumed name. MIR. Kel-
logg, as soon as he found that his daughter
had disappeared, put two private detec-
tiVes of Philadelphia on her track, and all
the converts in the Eastern and Middle
States were visited but no clew TO the
missing girl obtained. At last one of the
officers, Detective Leary, with the aid of
Detective Hurley, got on the track of
Storms, in New York, and followed him
or several occasions. They traced him to
Wassessing two or three days, and watch
ing the Steinbrenner cottage they became
satisfied that they had discovered Miss
Kellogg's mysterious convent. So, on the
above day, when Storms had been in the
cottage about half an hour, Leary put in
an appearance, and Immediately made
known his business, producing a warrant
for the
ARREST OF THE YOUNG LADY,
issued by Justice Hall. Gen. Storms i'm
mediately claimed her as his wife, but
Leary would not heed it and told the poor
girl she must go along with him. Storms
seeing that there was no alternative tend
cred his coach and asked to be allowed to
accompany them. This request was ac-
ceded to after some words had passed be-
tween Leary and himself. The latter
then whispered to Miss Kellogg and in
jiffy she was ready for the journey. They
were not long in reaching Justice Halls,
when Storms asked the Justice if he could
speak in private with him. This the
Squire agreed to, and after Learyhad re-
turned his search-warrant, Squire Hall
said he would hold a private interview
with the young lady.
They retired to the Squire's private Of
fee and soon Gen. Storms was asked to
step in the room for moment. Leary
suspected nothing, but while he was pac-
ing up and down the room congratulating
himself. no doubt, over his success. and
big reward for services, Miss Kellogg was
being made Mrs. Storms. Soon the party
returned to the main office and Squire
Hall stated that the lady would have TO be
given over to the custody of Gen. Storms
as he had proven to his full satisfaction
that she was his lawful wife-he held the
evidence-and besides she was of age
twenty, her parents having by law lost
their legal right over her for the past two
years or more. When Leary ascertalned
the facts he was compelled to take his de-
parture without the lady, while Gen. and
Mrs. Storms and the Squire drove over to
Newark.