Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-25
MIXED MARRIAGES.
Two Illustrations of the Queer
Taste of Southern Girls.
TWO BEAUTIES ELopE WITH NEGROES
Intense Excitement in a North Carolina
Cib-The Citizens Up in Arms and
the Romeos Take to the
Woods.

CHARLOTTE, y. c., August 24-The city
is intensely excited over two cases in which
white girls eloped with eolored men. liz
the first case the people OF Mathews Sta
ton were exercised over the arrival of q
welldressed coal.black negro, acrom panied
by handsome white girl. The two got of
the train from Hamlet, and made their
way to negro cabin. Such an occurrence
Excited Their SuspIeions,
and when the negro appeared in the stores
making purchases and exhibiting an un.
usual amount OF money they decided TO
investigate the case. While discussing the
adviSability Of arrestiny the parties the
negro went to the house where he left the
girl, and started out on the road in
the direction Of Charlotte. The girl was
seen 10 go ont on the railroad.
Citizens at ence followed the girl, and saw
the negro join her on the railroad, some
distance ahead. Seeing the citizens com.
ing, the negro fed, leaving the girl on the
track. She was overtaken and given into
the charge OF Joe Duncan, Town Marshal.
The girl was
Weeping Bitterly.
and for some time would not answer a
question, but finally she told them she
had been over.persuaded, and had run
away from her fathers house in Moore
county The night before. Her fathers
name, she said, was Mcleod. A telegram
was sent 10 him, and an answer was shortly
received requesting them to hold the girl.
Mr.. Mcleod had been hunting for her,
and telegraphed that he would reach
Mathews on the first train.
Captain Everett, conductor OF a Carolina
~ ruI trn.Ka IL
train at Hamlet, and he noticed
Their Queer Actions,
and surmised something wrong. The girl
is only sixteen years old. and is fine look.
ing. When she arrived at Hamlet she |
wore shabby dress, but shortly afterward |
c4me out in fine Sunday Clothes, weaun, |
among other jewelry gold necklace, and |
vas Stylishly dressed. She stubbornly re.
used TO relate the details OF the abduction, |
)nly repeating that she had been OVe-rpr. |
'uaned, and had run away the previous |
hight with the negro.
From an envelope found in the girls
possession il WAS aSCfrtsinrd thst the ne
'rn's name is Frank Ilallnan. He is very
'leCk, low, thick-set. wesr- a fine snit q
!rhy bat and a god watch and Chlia.
he CitiZers
Formed Searching Parties
nd put out TO hunt for the escaped negro.
messenger arrived and informed them
hat the negro had been captured at Mr..
olfe's, five miles from the city, where
e bad been caught taking a nap. II was
eared that the negro, on being CAPTURED
'Culd be lynched. but wiser counsels pre-
allied, and it was decided to turn him
yer TO the authorities of Moore county.
IXty people from Moore county came up |
)waTd Mathews Station, but most OF them
opped at stations along the road and re.
'ined the, party on tier return from Na
news with , l., I.r,
ith the girl. ,.,,
The arrival in Charlotte of a young white
ri sCcompanied by negro man, who car
ed her bundles, put people in mind nt The
.othews Station case and the grl was ar
,sted and an Investigation held. II was
,und 10 be
A Parallel Case.
he two walked into the city at an early
our. but were not seen again unul anout
oon, when the girl was iouud 70 nav
,Len temporary refuge in house OF Ill
apute. the owners Of which, having seen
er passing by in the company OF me
egrO. called her in and sent tor the ponce
The negro, taking the alarm. tHl ana haS
OF since been seen. The police arrested
he girl and carried her u Esquire vs.
Crne's Office, where
AuInyestigation
nto the case was made. ,..
The girl stated that her nam" wa L'zAe
henderson, and she came from unlon
ounty. Her father, Thomas h"hnerson,
ras dead. and since his death her mother
nayried man named Calsendal', ami Is
,ow living near Dalr's Mine, IN aiol.
he had been unable to live peaceabIy
9Th T her step father, aud
'er mother finally told her size had batter
n ard seek home elsewhere, AMI yeSte.'
Iy, r.cr, ing turned her adrift uith giit
-. home. The negro who VA
- la4.ed Bill Gregory, AM 1he