St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-16
BOUND TO HAVE HER.
The Divers Troubles of Thos. Boze.
man in Making Emma Camp
bell His Wife

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bell His Wife.
MOUNT VERNON, III, Jan. IA welding
was solcmnized at the Commercial hotel in
this city tonight, at which there
was trial of metle as between
cupfi and raVenous minions Of the law. Ii
seems that for some time past Thos. 8.
i. Bozeman, of Carni, H., and Miss Emma
Campbell, of McI.eansboro, have been
carrying on rather clandestine courtship
in which considerable correspondence passed
between them. The parties arranged for a
marriage, which was to occur at Evansville,
Ind, Wednesday of this week. The young
lady on Monday was visiting a married
sister at Dahlgren, Hamilton county, and
during her absence from home her mother
ransacked the daughters trunk and found
Bozeman's letters, which contained all the
plans for the prospective wedding. The old
lady was almost wild with grief. and
Immediately informed her married daughter
at Dahlgren by letter of the intentions
of her sister, and it was not long before Miss
Campbell was startled by the intelligence that
the cat was out of the bag.
With ready womanIy instinct, however.
she telegraphed her lover at Carmi that the
jig was about to assume lofty attitude and
that If he didn't want their plans thwarted
the first train that came Dahlgrenwards
would have him aboard. Mr.. Bozeman was
true to his love and accordingly arrived at
Dahlgren yesterday, remain ed there last night
and arranged to bring his lady love
fhic tut 10 a Al, til
immediately The married sister again ap-
pears on the scene telegrahs to her mother,
step-father and numerous other members of
the family to come TO Dahlgren by the first
train, and when No. 81 of the Louisville 81
Nashville, with Con ductor Davis in charge
stopped at McLeansboro an excited group Of
passengers got aboard bound for Dahlgren.
When the train arrived at Dahlgren a very
exciting scene occurred. Mr.. Bozeman and
Miss Campbell were at the depot, ready to fy
to Mount Vernon.
1t Is said that when the train slowed up az
the platform the married sister, who had fol-
lowed the couple there, grabbed the prospect
i've brother-in-law by the throat and admin
istered sound choking. He succeeded in
full stop, and, along with Miss Campbell,
hurredly rushed into the ladies' car, only TO
encounter the remainder of the family At
the sight of the truant couple the mother was
frantic with rage, and rushed at Bozeman
with cat like fury, as if to tear his eyes out.
Bozeman says the old lady was making so
many mysterious threats at him that he
finally concluded che was trying to use
weapon on him, having heard, he states, that
she carried knife or revolver for him, and
he put quietus on that part of the racket by
laying the woman out in the aisle with blow
straight from the shoulder, which
caught her over the left eye and
she was carried to the platform,
accompanied by all the family but the pros
pectivc bride and her exasperated lover.
A warrant was Immediately sworn out for
the arrest of Bozeman, and City Marshal Yost
received message to intercept him, and ar
rested him when the train arrived here.
Bozeman and Miss Campbell, accompanied
by the marshal, went direct to a hotel, where
the young lady was assigned a room and left
to brood over the events of the
day. Bozeman, after promising the mar
shall that he would make no
ate mpt to escape, was placed in charge of
the proprietor of the hostelry, an old ac-
quaintance, who repaired with him to the
county clerks office, where a marriage
license was procured and everything set fora
wedding at Z O'Clock this evening. Promptly
at the hour named a justice of the peace
put in an appearance at the hotel to pour oil
on the troubled waters by pronouncing the
prosecuted couple man and wife. In the
meantime, however, coustables entered from
Dahlgren and sought out Bozeman to read q
warrant to him, but, after much coaxing and
persuadiug on the part of the proprietor and
guests Of the hotel, that formality was STAYED
off until the nuptials we're celebrated, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bozeman seemed as happy as
larks. Bozeman's trial for pummellug his
mother-in-law will take place at Dahlgren to.
morrow.