The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
WHY LOVE LAUGHS.
Frisky Miss FrislSa and Her Race
for Husband
a School Girls Adventures On the
Road o SsatriN 0Dy- Mother 0p-
poses, But Love Laughs
All the Same.

C. ArTANooGA, Tenn, Jan. 70 year,
ago, VIII lie visiting Atlanta, w. 2 Baird, d
! young merchant of Fayetteville. Tenn, be
came acquainted with Miss FIR saa Have field,
| of Cincinnati, aged H. On Miss navrr el3's
return to Cincinnati correspondence was
agreed upon, but Mrs Haver;igid stornly pro-
tested, and it was carried on cianGestnely.
Miss Haverlied was placed il a boar =ily-
school. Mr. Baird fnuna it necessary t. -
plenish us toe, : merchandise oftener aaU at
times registered at the hotel under au as
sumed name. After awhile the couple had a
falling out, followed by the usual makeup"
A few weeks ago Baird visited Cincinnati,
had stolen Interview with his sweetheart,
and proposed matrimony. To this prcposi-
ton she agree!, and party of three gentle
men and ladies drove to the school build
ing, where the young lady was found in
waiting. The party drove to Parson GwynS,
where they were married, The party
returned to the boarding school, and Tie
new Mrs. Baird resumed her position as a
school girl without having aroused the slls-
picion e. any save a confidante who had as
sisted in the escapade. Baird remained at
the hotel, and was visited on several occa-
sions by his wife Ten days age Baird re
turned 10 Fayetteville, leaving hisschool-girl
wife to make preparations TO follow. The
bride was to leave Cincinnati Monday morn
ing and join Baird in this city that night,
but instead there came telegram saying:
can't come Detectives are after me-
Mamma is furious. I'm hiding out in Coving
ton. Be calm. Ill get through. Our friends
are vigilant. FRISKA
Probably fifty dispatches passed between
them Monday night and Tuesday. The police
here have been telegraphed to arrest, Baird
and his wife on arrival and hold them for
marrying in violation Of the laws of Ohio,
which requires the bride to be IS years old.
Mr.. Baird, learn ne this, left the Read house
in disguise, and was locked in room at the
Stanton house. At 3 o'clock Thursday morn
ing Baird drove to Boyce station in answer
TO the following telegram:
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. CIV. p. Baird:
Thank Heaven, I'm on the train; viii be
there i'll the morning. Meet me, VIII, can't
youG FRISKA.
Baird ard friend tooil the morning train
to meet the south-bouni train at Dayton,
Tenn, fifty miles north of Chattanooga. The
conductor and passengers had been told the
story by the bride, and when Baird entered
SiiC was tTOll pidCt, dliti
nearly every one in the car rose and began to
applaud. FrisSa states that just as she was pre-
pairing 10 leave Monday morning her mother
made the discovery and checked her, but not
until her trunk had been sent. Mrs, Haver-
field began to arrange for sending her TO
reformatory, but she escaped, and, going to
the Gault House, where two of Mr.. Baird's
friends were stopping, disguised herself as an
old lady. She crossed into Covington ard
stopped at the Clifton house, but detectives
got SO close that she was compelled to escape
through back door. She was taken by her
friends down thu Cincinnati Southern
railroad to Lexington, where she took the
night train, reaching here in the morning.
The parties left for the south in locked car
in the evening Miss Haverfield was forinely
of South Bend, Ind, bnt has been in a Gin
cinnati boarding -schoo! for the past two
years. When askei how the license was
obtained is Cincinnati for the marriage, Mrs.
Baird stated that she placed the number
as" under her foot, and her witnesses
could readily swear she was over rs"