The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-28
PAULLN'S FRANKS.
A Sedalia Lumber Dealer AGED
65 Years Elopes With
q Girl Of II.
He Takes With Him q Mortga9ed
Team and Plees to Parts
Unknown.

Inc OLD ana tfite saying, There % no
fol like an old fooI." has again been veri-
fed, and the BAzOo is this morning pre.
pared Ia give its readers the particulars of
one of the most extraordinary elopements
on record.
Something like two years ago Mr.. Jacob
Fl. PaulIn, q widower more than sixty
years Of age, whose hair, what little he
possesses, is as white as the driven snow, aud
his head Oh the crown as bald as biIiiard
ball, arrived in Sedalia, accompanied by
his son, ID. G. Psuiin, young man rs or
"a years Of age.
After prospecting little, father and son
engaged i'm The walnut lumber business,
under the irm name of d c. Paulin & Co.,
with yard on Third street, in East Sc
dslia. The elder Paulin's duties kept him
away from home good portion of the
time, during which ne would buy logs and
ship them IL Sedalia AMI The son would at
tend TO the business here.
Last iall, possibly in the month of October,
father and son consummaied arrangements
for running . mill ON the Pomme de Terre
river, eight miles above Fairfield, In Ben
ton county, and the management Of tn.
business at that point was placed in charge
of the senior Paulin, while the son spent
portion of his time in Sdalix and the re-
mainder in travelling about the country
purchasing logs for the eastern market.
During the past two months the firm OF
Pauiin q Go. closed out business IN this
city, and both father and son devoted their
time and attention to the mill in Benton
county. They purchased largely of logs,
and the son is now absent in the esst negO-
tiating sale. and is probably unaware of
his fathers disgrscefnl conduct.
Near the mill where the old e ntleman
held forth resided a family whose name
the BAzoo will suppress for the present.
Sufi il to say the father and mother are
among the best people of Benton county,
and the blow that has fallen upon them
has almost Frustrated them Several chill.
dren have blessed their union, but the eld-
est, a comely girl of seventeen, was the
flower of the flock, and was idolized by her
parents
With this family Old man Psulin took
up his residence short time after his
arrival in Benton county, and there
ne remained until one day last week. 1t
was noticed that he was very attentive to
the young lady i'm question, but nothing
Was thought OF the matter by the innocent
parents, who never for a moment cutter
lainsd :, Suspicion that their daughter
cred an, thing for man who was old
enough to be::her GRANDPA her.
But that was where they were sadly left,
as they learned only too late. On Thurs
day night last old man Psulin hitched pp
his team to n wagon, and trking the young
lady with him. / fl for parts unknown
III, as ,..-xa mn, Il ,,,,.l H.
morning, when the greatest CONSERVATION
prevailed, but all efforts to track the flee
ing parties proved o. no avail.
From gentleman who resides in Benton
county and is acquainted with all the par
ties interested, a BAzOO reporter CLEANED
The above informstiO yesterday. He said
he did not think the Young lady had
been ruined by her aged lover,
but their elopement was merely for the
purpose of marriage, which they realized
c"nld never faa- place at home with the
c"nsent of the giri's pnrents. Nothing
definite is known as to what direction they
'ook, but The general supposition is that
they fled to Arkansas, where they will
probably he married.
The young lady is represented as quite
handsome, and accomplished also, consid.
ering tn advantages she had. She had
numerous admirers. but cast them all aside
to take up with ''Grsndpa Paulin," as he
was often called
This is not all that is charged against
the old sinner of almost the allotted three
score and ten years. 1, is alleged that the
wagon and team which he took with him
are mortgaged to Sedalia gentleman. who
only learned of his loss Yesterday, and
will proceed to investigate the matter Mt
the earliest p'ssible mon ent
As before stated, Mr. d. G. Paulin is
now in the east and it is not known when
he will return He his always pr. we'd
himself an exemplary Young man, and his
fathers conduc. will no doubt prove q
heavy blow to him. Truly this is another
case of January and Nav.