Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-11
LOVES YOUNG DREAM.
Safe Return of the Two Youthful
Innocents of Allegheny.
WRAPPED HER IN HIS'OVERCOAT.
A Cruel Conductor Refused to Carry Them
for Love or Money.
NOT DENIED THAT THEY WERE MARRIED

| 'There goes another reporter" said {
voice from a crowd of urchins standing OF
the sidewalk in front of No 174 Locust
street, Allegheny, yesterday afternoon. A
DISPATCH representative rang the door.
bell and inquired for Mr.. w. B. Moseley
the hero of the elopement story, the full
and correct particulars of which, as pub
lished in THE DISPATCH yesterday morn
ing, created such an amount of talk over
Allegheny and Pittsburg.
eyes, Mr.. Moseley is in," said the servant
girl. "Won't you step into the parlor?
He will be down in a moment
A few moments later Mr.. Moseley ran
lightly down stairs and confronted his Wis
itor. He did not appear to be suffering
from any i'll effects of his journey to Alli-
ance, and his subsequent trip into the coun-
try with Miss Bessie Steadman. In fact,
his appearance tailed exactly with the
description of him published in yesterday
mornings paper. He still wore the light
suit, light colored necktie and patent leather
shoes, and was as pleasant and cordial as
his countenance indicates is usual with
him.
In reply to questions, he said the story
published in THE DISPATCH was, in the
main, correct. There were some minor de-
tails that were not quite as they occurred,
and some things happened that were not
told, but these were of no great conse-
quence.
Mr.. Mose1ey Tells His Story.
''The fact is" he said, eve purchased our
tickets to Sewickley, and from there tele-
graphed home saying we were going to be
married at jamestown. We then thought
we could take the night train to Buffalo, but
it was the express, and way passengers were
not taken. 1t was necessary for us to get
away from Sewickley or our folks might
have had us stopped at that place. 1 first
offered the conductor S. apiece to take
us away, but he would not consent,
saying it was against the rules.
I raised my offer to S25 apiece to
get him to take us to Beaver where we
could take the Lake Erie train that would
carry us to Buffalo, but he refused, saying
that he would not take us on for love or
money.
''We felt that we must leave Sewickley,
and as the conductor would not take US we
ran and jumped on the baggage car expect
ing that it would stop at Beaver and that
we could take the train for Buffalo. The
train did not stop though until it had car
ried us to Alliance, where we were arrested.
1t had been raining and the night air was
damp and cold. The motion of the train
made it worse, and as my wife-I mean Miss
Bessie-only had on a white dress I made
her put on my overcoat. 1t only reached
down to her knees and her dress could be
seen underneath. That was all the boys
Il LII
from Alliance that she had on any others is
not So"
"Then you are married?" asked the re-
porter.
Not Enough Said About a Wedding.
'That is a question decline to answer att
present. Mr.. Steadman or my brother will /
give your paper statement about that
later, but it would have been strange if we
were not married before we came back.
Things had gone so far-that was another
thing blamed the papers for They said
nothing about our marriage. 1 wish could
have seen one of your reporters at the
train when we came in about 1:30 this
morning I would have told him all the
facts about the case, and so much would not
have been left to imagination"
"Then you were married at Alliance,
were you ?" asked tho reporter, ''or was it
after you got home?'
81 must decline to answer that question,
but will say that either Mr.. Steadman or
my brother will give you statement which
will be accompanied by a certificate of a
witness"
The young man then told the story of
their arrest and the subsequent escape of ]
Miss Steadman from the Mayors house. |
They had not been confined in cell, he |
said, but were locked up in the Mayors |
office The balance of his statement agreed |
with the story published in THE DISPATCH. |
1t was also ascertained yesterday afternoon |
that Mrs. Steadman ENTHUSIASTICALLY shaken |
by the escapade of her daughter, but that |
the statement that Miss Bessie had dressed |
herself in boys clothes had as much to do |
with her illness as anything else connected |
with the story.
The promised Statement" as to the mar
rage ceremony failed to materialize.
FICTION - Third installment Of Jules |
yerne's great story, The Californians," in |
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