The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-03
CUPID ON THE RUN.
EXCITING EPISODE IN THE ANNALS
CT THE SMALL DIVINITY.
Sweet Sixteen and Her Lover Hard
Pressed by an Irate Father and
His Friends-Love Laughs
Last.

CAMDEN, n. j., Feb. 3-Ralph r. Har-
creaves, a sohoo!master in Milford TOWNSHIP,
Cam lea county, has elopsi with Fan3r
Louise Sickles. the 1G-year-oli daughter Of
Pemberton l. Sicklos, one of the we1ltiiest
farmers in the county. Har-rAavas whr
formerly livel in LanshorouEh. las beer
teaching school in Milford su.ce la.t
September. IL is blonde, .
year' d an "a m,d,un hei:a. AMI Ia'll
f.-aay Si'k5a5 w+s one OF his pupils. So.
- 5 one O, Jka acSnaNlal2el hala, o. ne
1ou.ty M oae knew that they lovet each
a'.Ir uldI Wednesday, when Far.d r
Sciirs discovered The truth, and threateiel
n send his daughter t. an asylum. SaIur-
! t.:y tue infatuated girl semi a note TO hat-
graaves, telling him that she was prisoner
| Ia her fathers nous and that she would run
away rather than be so disgracel.
| Sunday the girl went to church with her
| parents, but after dinner she wa' mis- ing.
| Farmer Sickles communicated to hi, oli
| friend, Andrew Dunlap, that he thou sht hi
| laughter and the schoolma5t ter hal run
away. M. Dunlap accompanied Dir.
Sickles to the school-houso. On the way
they STOPPED at the house of a neighbor
| named Brown, and got him to go
Brown took an obi navy revolver Fanny
Sjckles had stepped out quickly after dinner
! and had hurriei to the school house, q mile
away. There Size found Hargreaves AMI four
If his friends awaiting her coming. The
friends were Charles Hargreaves tao school
masters younger brother, Elias Yarneli.
Josiah Edgar, and George Voorhees,, Jr,
While the lovers and their friends were
arranging their plans Of elopemeut the girl
discovered her father with Dnnltp ana
Brown, coming up the road She became
very much frightened and wanted 70 lack
2ut, but her lover raaSsUrei her, ana when
Farmer Sickies kicked the scaool-house door
! 1t was opened by the schoolmaster. who
asked what he wanted.
| Il want my daughter he said
We'll, you can't have her." coolly replied
| Hargreayes. After this speech the door was
slammed and locked in Farmer Sjckers
face Mr.. SickleS and his two old friends
| were daz4d at Hargreave'S determination.
| Aftor consulting fer Il moment it was agl eed
that Dir Sickle3 and Mr.. Dunlap should
drive to Camden for warran. for the ar
rest Of Hargreayes on the charge Of abiuc-
ion. Isaiah Brown, armed with the navy
revolver, stood guard at the schoo,-house.
A few minutes after the girls father and
Mr. Dunlap went away, Hargroaves' brother
and young Voorhees, came out Of the school
house and hurried down the road. They
| soon returned with a spring wagon drawn
by two horses Then tie scho3lmastar AMI
Miss Sicklas opened TIE door, and old Isaiah
Erown, after deliberately cooking his re-
yoIver, said:
If you try to take that gel away I'll blow
your brains out"
This sanguinary declaration made tins
schoolmaster pause, AMI Miss Sicklcs Lcgar
crying. Hargreave's friends came up al
ibis moment and seized Brown and disarmed
aim. Brown became profane ana started
lome to get gun. The lovers AMI THEN
tour young friends got into the wagon AM
started for this city, seven miles Distant Il
he outskirts of the city they met Farmer
>ici.les, Mr. Dunlap and Squire Kerswell @,
the way 70 the school house The sPrin.
wagon dashed hy andJustice Kerswall 60
! Ipou the buggy ana shouted, Ralph Har
-reave, I arrest you.
The escaping party laughed and SPUR
he?sweu, greatly excited, pulled OUT his re
voiver and fired up in the air hoping t.
brighten the runaways into surrenderi9g
Young Hargreavas pulled out horse-piSto
and blazel away at the pur,uers. Dmia-
stopped his horse, AMI the wagon that carrie,
She runaway rattlal into Camden. The.
hur.isJ aboard the ferryboat, crossed t
Philadelphia, and drove to the Girard house
The angry father was in hot pursuit, an
,ioruel into she Grard after them.
la rzrcaycs saw him, and while the ex
citei farmer was explaining matters to tn
clerk Ha~Sreaves hurried into the parlar
and telling Miss Sickle and his friends t
follow. they quickly entered the carriage a
the door, and the driver was ordered to tai;
them to til, Broad Street railroad station
They hal .f.ean minutes in which to cate
l the Boston express, which left at ESQ p. Il
They got to tho depot in time.
p Farmer Sicbla' fastened to Fourth an
b Chestnut streets, and taiegraphei to II
chief of police OF Jersey City to arrest tn
fugitivss. Up to midnigh5 he had not r
ceived an answer to his telegram, but is SUI
posed that Hargrsaves and Miss Sickies lie
the train at Trenton or Newark, AMI wer
married.