Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-26
AWFUL HONEYMOON EPISODE.
Bride Impriso ned In an Elevator and
Groom Struggling with the Green
cred Monster.

cred Monster.
From the Los Angeles Herald.l
A bridal couple, well-known young peo-
pla of the city, returned day or two ago
from their honeymoon trip to San Francis
CO, where there nsw-found happiness was
nearly wrecked. The day after their srri-
val they started out together, the bride
wishing to do some shopping. They were
not too happy, for an old lover of the girl
had, by merely coincidence, gone up on
the same train, and by another coincidence,
had stopped at the same hotel. The bride,
perhaps feeling little sorry for him, had
foolishly exerted herself to be pleasant, and
the result was that the husband who is
naturally jealous, allowed unworthy sus-
picions to enter his mind.
AS they walked along Market street the
e1-rival passed them, and the husband was
irritated by the gracious salutation his wife
gave. However, he endeavored to cheer
up, and when they reached large dry
goods store, where his wife of two days in
| tended to purchase some stuff to adorn her
self with, he pulled out his pocketbook
and handed it to her, and told her to go
ahead and purchase whatever she wished.
/
and see what you buy, he added, and she
flushed with pleasure at his goodness, gave
his hand squeeze as she took the purse,
and walked into the store.
| He smoked for a short time, and then
sought his wife in the store. She was not
to be found. He started to go up to the
upper floor ON the elevator, but was met by
a boy stationed there, who explained that
something had Just broken about the ma
chinery, and the car was stuck fast up
against the roof, so he walked up stairs
and hunted thoroughly but fruitlessly. As
he came down he thought he saw his form
er rival ahead of him, but the crowd was
so great he could not be sure 1t made
him feel uneasy, and he began inquiring of
the clerks. At last he found one who re-
membered selling lot of goods to q lady
!, who answered his wife's description, and
she had ordered them delivered at the ho-
! tel he was staying at, so there was no doubt
about her identity. The clerk knew moth
ing else about her.
J Another search of the establishment re-
suited in nothing Perhaps she had missed
him in the crowd and gone back to the ho-
tel He jumped into a cab and drove there
| most haste to find that she had not re-
, turned BY this time he began to get wild
{ with worry and suspicion. The presence
: of that hated ex-lover at the store, his wife's
| sudden disappearance, eli suggested nortl'
. ble ideas to her He hurried TO the police
t headquarters and told his story. A big de
s tective. to whom he talked, smiled pitying
l ly at him and at once accepted the elope
D ment theory. officers were sent out tc
r find the detestable wretch suspected of hav
q ing wrecked the budding happiness of two
!. | souls.
The husband wandered frantically sbou
: the streets until he found that, unwitting
8 ly he had walked back to his hotel. ii,
s was weary, and mechanically took the ele
4 vator up to his room. He opened tn,
g door, and there on the sofa lay his wife
d who. as he entered, exclaimed: "0h, m,
+ dear, I've been shut up in an elevator TO
b hours in that horrid store. Something
y broke and the car went to the roof ant
bumped SO hard fell down, and couldn'
% get out, and they could not get the ca
g. down, and OH il was dreadful. / faints.
y at frst, and It was . long time before an