The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-29
A SCENE AT A WEBBING.
Dramatic Interruption of Marriage
CeremODy-The Loves of Lawyer.

philadelphia Press.l
Society circles of middle upper class are
Just now agitated by rather romantic cpl
sode which occurred on franklin street,
near Columbia avenue, on Thursday evening.
As a prologue to this act of q drama in real
life, it may be said that the principal char
acters first appear on the scene in Lancaster
some six or seven years ago. young law
yer then and there courted pretty girl,
who was living with her uncle and aunt,
circumstances. While the young lady
| listened to his suit with favor, the uncle
and aunt set their faces against it, and find
ing that quiet circumstances were of no
avail, peremptorily bid the lawyer to depart
and never set foot in the house again. He
did 30. Unknown, however, to the uncle
and aunt, the glrl kept up cladestine cor
respondence with her lover, and after the
lapse of couple of years he, at this time a
practlcing lawyer of this city. induced her 10
leave Lancaster and cast her fortunes in
Philadelphia. She did SO, and secured a
position in well-known dry goods estab-
lishment on Eighth street, near Market,
where she was enabled 30 main tain herself
in a very respectable position, and to secure
rooms in select boarding house of unques
tionable character. The lawyer also boarded
there. During the two or three years that
city the lawyers attentions had been
most marked, and he had formally
proposed marriage and had been accepted;
no time. however, being set for the ceremo-
ny. In November. 1877, his attentIons began
to decline, and his visits, TOO, became less
frequent. After series of exciting scenes
between the betrayed and betrayer, the girl
besought him to fulfill his promise of mar
riage. This he declined tn do.
After hearing his final determination the
young lady placed her case in the hands of a
lawyer, and the matter wen. into court, be-
fore Judge Thayer, In the December term of
common pleas court No. 4. On Thursday
last the judge fixed the bail of the accused
at 81, 500 to answer the charge of breach of
promise of marriage. But an hour after
wards, however, q startling report reached
the girl, her lawyer, and her intimate
friends. 1t was that her betrayer was to be
married that very evening TO lady of emil
nent responsibility and considerable wealth,
residing on Franklin street. Prompt action
was necessary. A capias was taken out, and
Deputy Sheriff Lennon, taking the docu-
ment in hand. started in pursuit of the law
yer. At the franklin street house all was in
readiness for the ceremony. The friends in
vited to the marriage feast were assembled;
the bride was in superb toilette, and the
clergyman was on hand to perform the GER
emony. Concealing his mental anxiety, the
lawyer waited anxiously the approach of the
happy moment. Suddenly the loud peal of
the door bell went reyerberating through
the house, the deputy sheriff entered, and,
advancing into the startled group, arrested
his man just on the eve of his happiness
The sureties offered for his appearance were
not considered satisfactory, and the lawyer,
instead OF starting on his honeymoon, passed
the night in prison. The legal proceedings
which will follow will reveal the names of
the dramatis person9 in this drama of real
life.