New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-13
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

How A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT ENDED.
Two YOUTHFUL LOVERS RUN AWAY. ARE AZ
Tackled BY THREE ABDUCroRs. WHO TRY TO
SWIM THE BRONX, AND ALL FIVE ARE FINALLY
ARRESTED.
Officer Foley of the Fifty seventh-st. Court
somad went M 10 the Thirty-fourth Precinct sta
tion at fremont yesterday, and brought from
there a Young couple who elopcd on Tuesday night
last from their residence No 336 West Fifty-ainth-
at. The lovers name is Samuel Holden Sullweli'
age fifteen. whose father, r. S. Stllwell, is a mem
her Of n manufacturing finn at Twelfth-st. and
Sixth-ave. The name of the young lady is Miss
Kitty Tully, and she is only year young Still
wells senior. Miss Tully was employed rs FER
want by Mrs Rowan. who occupies q fiat in the
house where the Stillweps live. The death of
her father and the second marriage Of her mother
left the girl without home Young Stilweils
girl in sympathy. He listened with feelings OF pity
10 her story Of the suffering and persecution when
she had suffered at her home No. 800 West Forty
enth.st Fually the youth declared that she should
never 90 back TO her mothers house. Mrs Rowan
had already ntimaed that she should soon dispense
On Tuesday night they agreed TO run away
together. When they started, however, 1t was
2 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and they
concluded TO remain during that night IN the vacant
house adjoining their own, of which Kitty hau the
key. At daybreak they started on their journey.
On reaching Central Park tney whiled away
couple of hours LAYING out plans for the future
The boy had only ~ so, he said, but with this
they thought that they could reach Albany. Once
there they would be safe from pursuit, and he could
get something TO do which would at least support
them for the remainder Of the Winter. They then
determined TO walk TO the fremont station OF the
New-York and Harlem Railroad so as TO take the
train for Albany.
On their arrival at point which they say wss
WIlliamsbridge and while they were going
through a strip of woods. three men attacked them
aud tried to run off with the girl Her lover fought
desperately TO prevent her from being abducted,
but succeeded only by strategy He said she was
his sister, and by the recital OF a
tale of suffering and cruelty at the hands
of drunken stepnother at home the
youth persuaded them to desist. Half an hour later
The couple were in the hands of the fremont pol ice,
who also after a vigorous captured the three
would-be abductors. The latter tried TO escape by
swimming across the Bronx River but did not sue
coed and Justice Wheeler at the Fordham Police
Court committed them to prison for five days in de-
fault of 50 fine each. Young StillwelFs father had
caused general alarm to be sent out for the cap
ture OF the yOung clippers, and II was through this
that the fremont police able to Identity them
when they appealed for protection against the three
tramps who had attacked them.
Justice Murray in the YOrkvIle Police Court YES
erday committed the girl 10 the House of the Good
Shepherd al the request of her mother and aunt,
and sent the boy home with his parents. The two
had a very affecting parting in court.