St. Paul daily globe., 1890-09-24
some QUEER WEDDINGS.
A Thirteen Year Old Girl Practices De-
csption.
REPUDIATEs HER HUSBAND.
Singular Marriage on Horseback 0at
in iaa Wilds of Ari- q.
zona. 9ji

Queer weddings seem to be the fash.
going to the clergyman's house and
having the knot quietly tied is out Of
vogue. Carrie Hoagland, thirteen
years old, of Philadelphia, is in trouble
over her marriage. She has just been
recognized as Mrs. Harry Stoker, al
though she has had right to the latter
name ever since June 2S. Her husband
is under lock aud key and charged with
felonious assault. Joseph Hoagiand,
Caro!ine's father, notified the Tenth
district police Tuesday that Stoker had
enticed his daughter away, and Stoker
was arrested. Caroline was found at
1924 Amber street, where Stoker had
rented furnished room. Magistrate
Gillespie held Stoker in 5000 bail for
court, while Caroline was restored TO
her parents.
On the Quiet.
The Stokers and Hoaglands were
neighbors in Mascher street and Harry
has known Caroline from infancy. On
June IS they went to Camden and were
married. The marriage certificate is
signed by Rev. Albert B. Richardson
and G. Elwanger. witness; but the girls
name, as written in the certificate. is
Caroline Hogan. The marriage was
celebrated at Mr.. Richardson's resi-
dence. No. $50 Linden street. Caroline
says that she represented to the minis
ter that she was twenty years old and
to Stoker that she was sixteen. She is
unusually tall and large for her age, but
the mother declares that the girls thlr-
teenth birthday fell December IL last.
The young woman'S excuse for being
married is that her parents refused to
allow her TO 60 out at night and she
hoped by marrying TO obtain greater.
license.
Says She was Drugged.
A strange story of a marriage comes
from New Haven. On July Miss
Fales, of Newark, went to that city to
visit Mrs. Charles Stevens. She met
Frank E. Stevens, a brakeman, BROTH
er of Mrs. Stevens husband. Miss
Fales and Stevens became intimate, and
the latter secured marriage license.
The two were married by Rev. L. G.
Meservi. The age of the young lady
was given as twenty-One years, when
she was only nineteen. She returned
to Newark four days later, but said
nothing to her parents about the mar
riage until Stevens appeared there and
claimed her for his wife, at the same
time showing a marriage certificate.
The girl now denies that she was
married to Mr.. Stevens, and refuses to
accompany Eim to New Haven. She
has no recollection of the marriage cere-
mony, and says that she was kept under
the Influence OF drugs from the time she
arrived in New Haven until a few hours
before she left, and that the coffee
which the Stevens people gave her every
day was drugged. She said that if any
ceremony had been performed it had
taken place when she was under the IN
fuence of drugs. 80
Married on Horseback.
There were two strangely conducted
weddings at Payson, Ariz., lately.
Thomas Beach and Maggie Meadow
and Charles Cole and Julia Hall were
married on horseback. At the appoint
ed time 200 guests assembled OH the
main street of Payson. Every one. ma,I
or woman, was mounted, and the two
couples rode up on spirited brOnchoS to
the centero the gathering. The brides
were dressed in riding habits and the
| grooms in regular cowboy regafia, big
| hats, leather leggingS and spurs. A
| justice of the peace, also aStride horse.
in the briefest of legal ceremonies mar
ried them. After congratulations, pres
entS were announced. One present,
offered by Charley Meadow, brother of
one of the brides, was as many head of
| his cattle as the married pairs could
! fiud and brand between then and sun
down. Chase was at once begun. The
| young women, who are expert riders,
carried branding irons and assisted in
lying down the cattle. AS result of
| the roundup each married pair secured
| eighteen head.