Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-21
RUNAWAY COUPLE.
go 1t MY Boy, I'll Stand by You," Sal,
One of the Parents.

$50 1t My Boy, I'll Stand by You," Said
One of the Parents.
FRESNO, October 20th.-Pretty Nora Kel-
ler, 10 years old, got tired of packing rails
ms and eloped yesterday with Thomas Nell
sou, son of the County Treasurer Nora's
parents are angry and VOW that they will
punish Nelson.
Mrs. Keller and her daughter worked in
the George w. Mead raisin and fruit pack
ing house in this city. and how Nelson,
who is rancher on Big Dry creek, came
to get acquainted with the girl is one of the
many moonlight mysteries of Fresno.
The mother and daughter went to work
as usual yesterday morning. Mrs. Keller
went outside the building for a few mo-
ment.
Nora after telling some of her workmates
that she was going to run away with young
Nelson and gel married, bade them good
by and went home. 1t was some little
time after Mrs. Keller came in before she
noticed her daughters absence, and when
she inquired of the girls one of them told
her what Nora had said. The agitated
mother hastily put on her bonnet and
shawl and hurriedly went home only to
find that Nora and her best clothes were
missing. She and her husband came down
town and placed the matter in the ands of
officer Walton, who searched the San
Francisco bound train at noon, but could
find no trace of the loving couple
81 and my wife were opposed to Nora
keeping company with Nelscn,n said Mr..
Keller. 1--WE thought Nora was too young
to receive attentions of gentlemen or to get
married, and besides that, Nelson is too
wild and harum scarem fellow to make
good husband for any girl. l propose to
find them out and have them both pun
ished, because the girl cannot get married
without the consent of her parents, as she
IS under age. She deserves punishment for
leaving her parents the way she has done,
and he deserves 10 feel the weight of the
law, for he is nine years older and knows
better. Nelson took her out riding once or
twice, and we talked to Nora and advised her
that 1t was better for her happiness that
she should not continue to receive his at
tentions. Last Sunday she told her mother
that she had given Nelson up and that she
would have nothing more to do with him,
but she was not telling US the truth, and
only intended TO throw us Oft our guard"
Before running away with the girl young
Nelson asked his fathers consent to marry
her and he refused, but when he heard tbet
the Keilers objected to the match he patted
his boy on the back and remarked with
parental pride:
go it, my boy; I'll stand by you"
Nora, after donning her new clothes, met
Nelson at a friends house in town and thev
sent Nelson's little brother Harry to the
train to see if the Kellers were holding the
fort. He saw Mrs. Keller and the police
man there, and he returned and so re-
ported. This interfered seriously with the
intention of the young couple of going to
San Francisco on the train and getting
married on tug outside the Heads. AS
last resort they hired team and drove to
Herndon, al which place they expected to
catch the o'clock train for San Francisco
this morning.
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Dry creek, and has been hauling grain in
here for some time. He is "a years old
and tolerably good looking.