The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-21
Married ON q Stroet-CSr.

took place on the BOwery, ON Thursday |
afternoon. A haf-frightened German
minister married in q bob-tailed car of |
the Third avenue line q young couple /
that was closely pursued by the irate |
father of the bride, who was infexibly |
determined that his comely daughter |
should not marry her beau under any
circumstances.
A reporter of the Mercury ascertained |
the following facts concerning this
strange and truly romantic love affair.
For years past an Irishman named
Thomas Liscomb had lived on the third |
floor of one of the large tenement
houses on East Fourth street, between
First and Second avenues. with his
wife and his young daughter, Mary
Ann. Liscomb was formerly in quite |
comfortable circumstances, but had
squandered most of his money, which
had so soured his temper that he had
commenced to drink pretty hard. One
day he discovered that Mary Ann, who
is between seventeen and eighteen years
old, was keeping company with John
SchOber, fne-lOoking young German
shoemaker, who had lived formerly for
number of years in the same house
with her. His father and old Liscomb
had one day had a fight, in which the
former had got badly injured. He had
sued Liscomb for damages, and the sum
of 81, 900 had been awarded him, as
matter of course. In 1876, Schober died,
leaving a widow and son John, who
was then nineteen years old. They
moved away from the house, but the
young man, who had always been
strongly attached to Mary Ann, man.
aged frequently to meet her unknown
to her father, and few months ago he
asked her to marry him.
Mary Ann loved him dearly, and
blushingly declared her readiness to
become his wife. John was ABUNDANT
ly able to support her, fer he was an
excellent shoemaker, and earned lib
eral wages at custom shoe-shop on
Broadway. But there were certain
formidable obstacles in the way of the
contemplated union. The old man had
transferred his hatred of the father to
the son, and, beside, Mary was Catho-
lie, while John was Lutheran. The
lovers were talking about all these
matters, q few nights ago, on Second
avenue, when, to their dismay, they
were confronted by Mary AIMS father,
at the time under the influence of
liquor. He called his daughter all
sorts of names, and drove her home,
her lover deeming it prudent not to in
terfere in order not to attract crowd.
When the father had got his daughter
home, upon her refusing to promise
not to meet John again, he locked her
up in dark bedroom, forbidding his
wife to let her go out. But out she did
60. She met her John, and the two
agreed to elope and get married with
out further delay. Last Thursday was
the day appointed for that purpose, and
John had engaged the services of
Lutheran preacher to tie the nuptial
knot. One o'clock p. m. was the hour
when his Mary Ann was to meet him
at the preachers house; but, after he
had waited there for three-quarters of
an hour with two stalwart young
friends of his, and Mary Ann did not
make her appearance, the trio re-
solved to go boldly 10 the girls house
and to get her, if need be, by force.
They found the door locked. When
they raped, the old man answered
from within, "Who's there?' "We
want to see your daughter for mo-
ment," they shouted back. "Ah! it's
that vagabond that is with you. He
wants to take my daughter away from
me, the young rascal, don't he? Well,
he shall never marry my Mary Ann! l
have found it all out. Get away from
my door, the whole of you!'' The
three friends held brief council of
war, the result of which was that they
forced open the door. While Johns
two companions seized the dumbfound-
ed father, the desperate lover got his
girl out of the adjoining room and hur-
ried off with her, whispering to his
friends: Meet me at the preachers.
After holding the struggling father for
several minutes, they let 60 of him.
The old man was so bent upon pursu-
ing his daughter that he rushed out of
the house without paying any attention
to the two young fellows that had treat
ed him SO rudely. Meanwhile John and
Mary Ann had sped to the preachers
house; but, to their disagreeable dis
appointment, they found that the
preacher had gone out, leaving word
that he would not return until a late
hour. The two lovers could not afford
to wait so long, so they went to the
houses of several other dominies and
asked to be married; but Mary Ann
looking younger than she really was,
no preacher was found willing to
perform the nuptial rites. Almost in
despair. John took his girl to the Bow
cry, and was about taking an uptown
car with her to hunt up minister on
Sixty-ninth street, with whom he was
slightly acquainted, when he saw a
gentleman in a black coat and white
cravat entering a downtown bob-tailed
car. Johns face frightened up won
derfully. He stepped into the car with
his girl and boldly approached the
somber-looking old gentleman. Said
he to the latter: IS This is my betrothed.
We want to get married right away,
and you must marry us here on the
spot?''
Whatw gasped the reverend gen.
tleman, 'marry you here in this carp
"Yes." The clergyman raised num-
Der of objections, but his scruples were
overcome by five-dollar bill which John
handed him, and the two were hurried
~ "dAAACus OuUs WudG dUOuL tuO
marriage certifcate?'' said John. 81
have no paper with me-" replied the
preacher. John found in his side
pocket an old bill-head of the firm for
which he was working, and the clergy
man wrote the marriage certificate in
lead-pencil on the back of it. On Di-
vision street the happy couple left the
car, whose driver had no idea of the
strange occurrence that had taken
place in such close proximity to him.
John subsequently took his bride to his
mothers room, and then started out to
rent apartments and to furnish them
N. Y. Mercury.
A Vermont Murder.
The case of John p. Phair, tried and
convicted for the murder of Ann E.
Frieze at Rutland, VT, on June 9, 1874.