The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-01-05
LOVES ABO LOST.
How a Determined Attempt to EIop-
Was Frustrated.

Last Saturday night a dispatch was
received here from st. Louis, reading
as follows: ''Stop Sarah Jones, on to-
morrow's X. p. train. $500 is you
catch her" a description of the girl
followed, together with the statement
that it was an elopement case and the
girl under age-only seventeen. The
next morning more dispatches conveyed
the intelligence that the man with
whom the girl was running away was
on the u. p. train, and it was supposed
they would meet at Cheyenne. When
the X. 7. train arrived Sunday Deputy
Sheriff Arnold was at the depot, but no
girl answering the description was on
the train, and mont had got off the
sleeper between Kansas City and Den
yer. There was one rather stylish
looking boy, with a s~uspiciously large
overcoat, but after seeing him strut
about the office of one of our hotels,
smoking a cigar, Arnold became con
WINGED that there was no girl in those
clothes and went home.
Monday morning the boy left for
Cheyenne on the d. p. train, but still
no girl, and Arnold felt obliged TO tele-
graph 10 That effect. The receipt of
the message, ''She was on that train
sure" did not make him feel more COM
Portable, and to make SURE that he was
right lie telegraphed to Cheyenne. No
girl answering tile description had zone
north on the train. Monday evening,
Mr.. Jones, senior, arrived on the X. p,
and to him the whole story was told,
with the exception of that part relating
to the boy, which Arnold did not think
it necessary to repeat. Tuesday morn
ing Mr.. Jones received IL telegram from
st. Louis, transmitting the following:
Cheyenne, Dec. olive are mar
ried. Going to Omaha. Sarah"
There !" said lie, showing the mes
sage to Joe, ~ told you she was on that
train" Arnold was in Il quandary,
and i'll the course of his questioning,
mentioned the fact of the boy. That's
she,' said the old man; ''she smokes
like a chimney" Arnold now had the
clue, and telegraphed to Cheyenne,
learned that the boy had been seen at
the depot, and had met Il man on the
westward bound train OIL Monday, but
whether the pair had gone east or west
could not lie ascertained. lie reasoned,
however, that the runaway couple
would have no time to he married at
Cheyenne between the two trains; that
they would hardly return to Omaha
without being married, and therefore
that their telegram was q blind, and
that they must have gone west. He
had barely time to catch the train at
Ogden, and he might be wrong in his
conjecture, but he took the risk and
telegraphed to the agent of the associa-
tiOn at Ogden, describing the parties
and directing their detention. About
two hours afterward came the welcome
message: parties arrested, send in
structions.n Wednesdays D.. T.. train
took out Mr.. Jones on the track of the
runaway daughter, and by this time,
father, daughter and lover are settling
things in Ogden. Tie names used are
fictitious, the parties being all well con-
nected in st. Louis, and the father hav-
ing been careful to keep his daughters
escapade a close secret from all except
the members of his w family. "All's
well that ends well. "[Denver Times.