The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-10
AN ELoPEMENT.
Handsome Rachel Arnold Runs Away With
a,bcr-Her Father in Hot Pursuit.

"Are you Policeman?
These were the words addressed to an
EAGLE reporter at 10 O'Clock last nj ght near
the police station The speaker was an old
man, a stranger in the city and abont as
excited an Individual as ever struck the
town. He was answered in the negative
and directed to the police station to which
he made bee line.
The cause of all his furry and excitement
was NO more nor no less than the loss of a
handsome daughter who had fed from
Conway Springs yesterday with a ton
serial artist from Kansas City named
Charles Blake The gentlemaDs name was
Arnold and his daughters name Is Rachel.
The father is a wealthy farmer OF Cass
county, Missouri. and was out at Conway
Springs adding to his land possessions.
He had Rachel with him for no doubt, he
was afraid TO leave her at home for fear
the barber might be his soD-ln-iaw when
he would return. While the father was
trading for land at Conway Springs the
fair Rachel was sponding with Blake
and Yesterday he turned up at Conway
Springs and with Rachel he came to this
city 1t was about O'Clock when they
called at the probate court TO
be married but Judge Buckner
was not in and subsequently arrangements
were made to meet at his
Office at o'clock when he would be ready
TO tie the nuptial bond. In the meantime
Chief of Police Burrows received a tele-
gram from the father to arrest the pair
and hold them until his arrival. He did
SO, but held them not exactly as prisoners,
for he gave them the liberty of his own
Office on the second floor. There was no
charge against them, and he could not
hold them, particularly when Rachel WAS
ready and willing to swear that she was
nearly 10 years old. The pair. however.
didn't know the law till long after the
hour set for the wedding.
About 10 o'clock they spotted rope in
the chiefs room, and the gay barber
Immediately conceived the idea of per-
forming romantic escape. He tied the
rope around his fair one and assisted her
gently through the window to the ground
beneath, while he jumped after her HIM
self They departed in time. for they
could not have been gone five minutes
when the enraged sire went laundering
up the stairs to the chiefs room with
Officer Reynolds, who was in charge.
magazine the surprise of both of them
when they found the window open and the
birds flown. 1t was thought barely pos
sible that they might have climbed up to
the tower of the city building to hide from
the enraged father, and both he and the
officer climbed up, the old gentleman
making the corridors resound with
the stormy language he employed as he
progressed. After a vigorous search it
was concluded that they made their es-
cape through the window and the old
man started out after them iii hopes of
intercepting them before the matrimonial
knot was tied.
The daughter said to Chief Burrows
that she sent to Kansas City for Blake to
marry her and that she would not allow
her father or anybody else to prevent it.
The father thought different and felt con-
ide1tt that if he could get to speak to her
she would weaken and give Blake the
shake. 1t is doubtful for the young lady
looks like a girl who means what she says.
She is good looking and so is Blake. Both
for three or four years, the father always
to admit the tonsorisl artist into
his family.
At an early hour this morning nothing
in hot pursuit of the pair all night.