Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-10-02
WON WITH A LADDER.
An Auburn On. ~ Girl Climbs Out
Her Window to Be Married.
Relatives Appear at the Ceremony and Try
to Seize Her and n Knock-Down Fight
Takes Place-The Police Enforce Or
der and the Wedding Proceeds.
IAuhurn lN. ~ sneciai.1

lAuDurn IN II special
For more than a year Douglass Boards.
ley has been attentive to Miss Mary Au.
yusta ChedAll, daughter Of the late John
Chedell, who was very wealthy. A few
weeks ago Miss Chedel's stepfather and
her mother forbade Beardsley the house,
and Mrs. Chedell, learning that her daugh-
ter had met Beardsley secretly, locked her
In her room. She was kept prisoner un.
til last evening, when with the uss of a rope
and ladder and the assistance of her lover
she made her escape through q second
story window. They proceeded to the
residence of William H. Beardsley,
brother OF Douglass, who lives on South
street. Rev. John Brainard, Rector Of st.
Peters Protestant Episcopal Church, was
called, and several relatives and friends of
the Beardsleys and Miss Chedell were in
vited to witness their marriage. When all
was in readiness for the ceremony the
guests and young lover were alarmed by
loud talking at the door, and it was learned
that the servants were strenuously resist
Ing the attempts of three men to enter the
house. They proved to be Charles Smith,
the brides stepfather; her brother Clar.
ence and Mr.. Smiths coachman. They
had learned of Miss Chedel.'s fight and Of
her intended marriage.
The servants were being overpowered at
the door when J. Hartman Woodruff, a
guest and q wealthy manufacturer and
relative of the Beardsleys, rushed to the
door and knocked down Clarence Chedell.
Smith, who was kreatly excited, drew a
revolver and threatened to shoot any per-
son who dared to prevent him entering
the house. Some Of the men secured him
and the coachman, and young Chedell re-
tired from the scene. In the mean time
one Of the guests had telephoned to the
police station, aud Officers Coneybear and
Mccarthy arrived at the residence, and
Mr.. Smith, after being threatened with
arrest, consented to re-enter the hack in
which he and his stepson and the coach
man had intended to abduct Miss Chedeli,
and they returned to their home.
Quiet having been restored thu friends
Of the parties re-entered, and Il was pro-
posed to proceed with the cerem0nY. when
Mr.. Brainard remarked that inasmuch as
the young lady was not of age, and OBJ
jections had been made to her marriage,
he would have to decline to marry them.
The friends then said they would send for
DIR. Harter. The Episcopalian then said
NC "OuAu ho'HOE pcIlOEAu tno CcrchuOHJ
himself than have them welded by DIR.
Harter, and the marriage was proceeded
with.
Miss Chedell is a pretty blonde with deep
blue eyes. She is nineteen years old,
above medium height, of slender and
graceful figure, and is vivacious and ac-
complished. Her share of her fathers es-
tate amounted to sos, 900. The ChedeIls
and the Smiths are very aristocratic peo-
pie, and have lived many years in Au-
burn. Douglas Beardsley, the groom. is a
rather dudish young man without means,
and has recently engaged in the coal busi-
ness. His uncle, Nelson Bearlsley, a
banker, is accounted the richest man in
Auburn. The newly married couple
avoided the Smith Chedell party by driv.
ing to Wyckoff Station, where they took
train going south.