Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-18
QUITE A ROMANCE
A WEST VIRGINIA GIRL PLAYS JULIET TO A
COLORED ROMEO.
A Stern 'Parient'' lnterierss, and After Coming TO
Wheeling Policeman Has 10 Be Called
Upon to Keep the Lady Quiet

Wheeling played Part in sensation
Of peculiar kind this week.
An aged, gray-haired man, from
town out the B. & o. registered last
Sunday night at the Stamm House, from
Kingwood, Preston county. TWAS then
11:2O o'clock, and Monday morning he
started on the 7:2O B. & o. train for
Washington, Pa. On the 6:25 train the
same evening he returned, accompanied
by a handsome brunette. The young
lady was dark-eyed, pretty, and not
over twenty-four years Of age. Persons
at the hotel noticed the old gentleman
watched the yonng lady very closely:
Finally the clerk, whose suspicious had
already been aroused, was called
into the hall, where the father stated
he was afraid to leave the reception
room lest his daughter escape. AT this
stage the clerk inquired If the old gen.
tleman had thwarted an elope-
ment, and he admitted he had. The
old gentleman asked that the register
be brought that be might sign it and
not lose sight of the daughter. Ac-
cordDg to directions the clerk finally
signed il himself, "--- --
and daughter" After supper the young
lady's actions becoming more snspi-
cious the clerk was asked to telephone
for a police officer, the father saying
he feared he would have trouble In
getting his daughter on the 1925 train
for the East Officer James Creighton
arrived and to him the story
was confded. Coming on the
train from Washington the old
gentleman asked a friend on the train
to assist him in getting the young lady
to the hotel, and then to the train East,
as he feared there would be an attempt
to take his daughter from him at the
depot.
At the hotel, where the parents eyes
were taken from the daughter for a
moment, the clerk heard noise and
saw the girl endeavoring to
escape through the reception
room window. The father grabbed
the girl just in time. Later the young
brunette made another Intellectual at
tempt to escape. This time she cried
pteously 81 will never be happy" II
cannot live without him." 81 love him
dearer than life," and similar ejacula-
tions. The girl, accom- panied by the
father, the officer, and friend, was
put on the 1925 train yesterday, and
the couple left town.
The old mans heart seemed nearly
broken, and his sad story follows: Two
years ago his daughter left her home
for Washington, Pennsylvania. Ella
was bright and respected girl, and
had had many attentions from gallants
in that locality. She accepted
position as waiter in the larg-
est hotel in Washington, the
Bailey. A large colored man named
Moseby was an employe at the
hotel, and Ella became infatua-
ted with the dusky employe. A
courtship on the sly followed, and m
engagement was the outcome. Ella
confided the secret Of her engagement
to fellow waitress, and this person
told the housekeeper in charge. Alarm
ed at such an outcome, the house
keeper lost no time in tee-
graphing the girls father, who i'm
mediately came on. The dispatch
stated for the father not to come
direct to the hotel lest the daugh-
ter escape. 1t was arranged finally,
and the father was brought face TO face
in a room in the hotel with his erring
daughter. He told her to come home.
She refused, saying she loved
the colored man and would
marry him. The stOrmIest kind
OF a scene followed, and the father
finally had to secure aid TO get his
daughter aboard the train for Wheel
ing.
The farther course OF father and
daughter Is not known. but 1t is
thought the girl will escape and join
what she calls her "colored lover"