The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-21
PAULINE FULLER EL0PES
THE CHEF JUSTICE ASTOUNDED
BUT WILL FORGIVE HER.

Her Husband the Son of j. NJ. Aubrey,
Western Agent of the Merchants
Dispatch Fast Freight Lipe--They
Ran Away from Chicago to Be
Welded at Milwaukee.
CHICAGO, March 20-A Milwaukee
special says: "Miss Pauline Fuller, fifth
daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, was
married here last night at the Kirby house
by justice of the peace. The groom was
j. Matt Aubrey, Jr., of Chicago,
and it was runaway match.
When the $50 o'clock train arrived last
evening petite woman was helped off the
steps of parlor car by well-knit young
man with smooth face. The lady was
closely yelled and was escorted
to a carriage by her companion.
They were driven at once to
the Kirby house, where they registered.
No room was assigned to them. and the lady
and her companion spent the early evening
in the hotel parlor. About 8 o'clock the
young man came down stairs and informed
the clerk that he wanted a justice of the
peace
THE MARRIAGE.
t'Inside OF fifteen minutes Justice Gregory
arrived. There was a hurried consultation
and the young man brought the blushing
Young lady forward. The ceremony was
brief one and the justice, who is very
prosaic old gentleman put on no
extra frills. He did not know that
the bride was a daughter of the chief
justice of the United States, and neither
did any Of those who were present, outside
of the contracting parties. When the cere-
mony was concluded the old justice called
for witnesses, two young men were
| captured in the billiard room, and ran to
affix their signatures to the necessary docu-
ment. The knot was legally and firmly
sphced.
SKETCHES OF THE LOVERS.
"Mrs. Aubrey, nee Pauline Fuller, is 10
| years of age, highly educated and q re-
marknbly handsome woman.
81. Matt Aubrey. Jr., is % years of age.
He is a son of the general western agent of
the Merchants Dispatch Fast Freight Line.
j. N. Aubrey, Sr., has been a re ident Of
| Chicago since 1875, when he left Milwaukee.
He is well known here, and Congre 'sman
Isaac Van Schaick is one of his most in
timate friends. Young Aubrey is employed
in his fathers Office in Chicago. He is a
handsome young fellow.
THE wooING.
Gas near as can be learned the acquaint-
three years ago. Justice Fuller who was
then plain Lawyer Fuller, lived with his
eight daughters on Lake avenue, only a
short distance from the home of young
/ Aubrey The young people first met at q
party given in the neighborhood.
| OPPOSITION OF HER PARENTS.
Gan attachment spraag up between them.
and when it became apparent it was op-
posed by the Fullers. Miss Pauline de-
! clarei, however, that she would marry
whom she pleased, and her father recog-
nized her right to do as she pleased. Mrs.
| Fuller continued to oppose the match.
About this time Lawyer Fuller was named
as chief justice Of the United States, and
Mrs. Fuller packed up aud carried Miss
| Pauline away to Washington with the other
Misses Fuller.
| STORY OF THE ELOPEMENT.
about the first of last January Miss
Pauline came to Chicago, and has since re-
mained in that city visiting friends of the
| family. The story OF the elopement of the
young pair is an interesting one, and dem
onstrates that young Aubrey has cut his
eye-teeth. To begin with, he hired two
detectives to shadow him and his affianced
until they left Chicago His object was to
learn if any one was following them, and
to prevent the young lady being rescued:
SWEET TRYsTING PLACE.
| SIT was early in the afternoon when he
met Miss Fuller, and Chicago candy store
was the trysting place. Tney boarded a
Milwaukee and st. Paul train at the union
depot at $3.50 o'clock and came direct to this
| city.
''1he correspondent Of the Associated Press
called on Justice Gregory early this morn
] ing and greatly astonished that gentle nan
| by informing him that he had married a
daughter of the chief justice of the United
States. On looking at the marriage certh-
cate, however, he was more than surprised
that the fact had not struck him before,
for there before his eyes were the full names
Of the chief justice and his wife as we'll as
those Of the groom's father and mother.
Young Aubrey proposes to remain in Mil
waukee a few days"
HER FATHER WILL FORGIVE HER
WASHINGTON March 20.-Chief Justice
| Fuller and his family refused to believe to-
day the story that Miss Pauline Fuller, the
pretty 17-year-old daughter, Rad eloped.
| They admitted TO friends that she had
| seemed infatuated with young Aubrey, and
that having brought her here away from
his influence, she was discontented until
| they let her go back to Chicago to meet
friends, but they did not believe that she
would elope. However, the kind
hearted chief justice will forgive and for
get if be gets authentic confirmation of the
story, and will make bis daughter as gener-
Gus an allowance as he can afford.
ROYALTY AT POTSDAM.