Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-22
cUPID's CAPERS.
Fiction Outdone by the Romance
of Real Life.
The STORY That is Old and Yet Ever New
and Simple and Beautiful Always,
in the Endless Succession
of Lovers.
"pLL SAIL THE SEAS OVER FOR THEE"

VISCENNEs IND, December l9.-Ihe
Wetzel.Stewart case continues to be the
principal theme of local gossip. The lady,
failing on last Friday to capture her a.
legged lover with the aid Of loaded reVoi'
yer, has at last concluded to see wh"S re-
lief she may have at law. 1t is learned that
ex-Attorney General Denny will have
charge of Miss Annie's delicate case, but
whether it will be Of civil or Grim
inal character cannot now be statea,
the parties being retioent. fridays pro
ceedings were indeed interesting. Inc Plos
was complete in its details, and worked
like a charm right up to the critical point
the marriage ceremony. Miss Stewart
and her father, armed with a marriage
license and q revolver, waited at the house
of Squire Smith, across the river In ILL
nois, with an accomplice, one Teagarten,
came into the city and ndprocured Mr.. Wetzei
to 90 back with him to attend to some legal
business.
To AlIay Any Suspicion
which Mr.. Wetzel might have, Teagarten
took care to let WetZel know that another
attorney had been or would be consulted.
Mr.. Wetzel followed his client across the
bridge without hesitation. Arrived at Es-
-,
neatly he had been trapped, but he utterly
refused to listen to either appeals or
threats, though he parleyed with the Stew
arUs in order to gain time and watch Tor
chance II escape.
The sceneis described as somewhat tragic
at times, while at Others it was ludlcrous
beyond description. When Mr.. Wetzel SAID
he would not marry her, she said 'he must
or die" and then made for her lover. re-
yolyer in hand. Mr.. Wetzel grabbed the
girls father, and held the form OF that an
cient parsonage between him and the tiery
female as shield. 1t is stated that Mr..
Wetzel was badly frightened and that he
was so unnerved by the tragic attitude OF
the father and daughter that he fairly wept
and tearfuIly told Miss Annie that "she
surely could not love him as she professed
TO, else she would not be threatening his
life"
in the houLe for quite while. Wetzel
struggling with first one and then another
of his wOuld-be captors, the young man
gained the door and began a series of fine
feints and maneuyers looking TO final
escape from the presence OF his tormentors;
Miss Annie was on, the alert, still armed
with tears, protestations and six-shooter,
between whom Wetzel managed to keep
till he finally got to the gate, when lse fled
like mist before the wind, the girl after
him like the witch in Tam OShanteT: A
good quarter of mile was thus covered by
both parties before Indiana soil was reached,
Wetzel keeping safelyin the lead and finally
disappearing iust.as the bridge watchmaR
gobbled Miss Annie and held her for anIe1-
PLANTATION. This terminated that day S, fun,
but Miss Stewart was cut again swearing
that Mr.. Wetzel must marry her or die.
She did not see him, but she told a friend
that she meant to follow him to his grave.
That his leaving her would not help linn
whit, as she would hunt him out if he went
to the end OF the world, She is brighs and
intelligent woman, evidently very deter
mined in character, and has born q fair
repu tation as a teacher and lady until this
Wetzel affair came UP At first sympathy
was with her. Her claims to the effect that
Wetzel had made love to her and had
promised to marry her were given ready
credence, but the current OF feeling has
since changed, and Mr.. Wetecl now inds
general sympathy.