West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-01-26
QUITE A ROMANCE.
A NEST VIRGINIA GIRL PLAYS
JULIET TO A COLORED ROMEO.
A Stern "Parient' Interferes, and AZ.
ter Coming TO Wheeling Police.
man Has 10 be Called Upon TO
Keep the Lady Quiet.
From the wheellne Real.ter.

fN'th tnc Nhceilng IeGlStfr.
Wheeling played a part in sen.
sation 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. Il was then 1920 o'clock.
and Monday morning he started on
the 7:20 b. & o. train for Wash
ington, PA. On tho Gas train the
same evening he returned, accom-.
panied by handsome brunette.
The young lady was dark eyed,
pretty. aud not over 24 years of age.
Persons at the hotel noticed that
the old gentleman watched the
young lady very closely. Finally
the clerk, whose suspicious had al
ready been aroused, was called into
the ball, where the father stated he
was afraid to leave the reception
room lest hls daughter escape. At
this stage Tie clerk inquired il the
old gentleman had thwarted an
elopement 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. According to directions
the clerk finally signed it himself,
- and daughter. "
After supper the young lady's nc
tons becoming more suspicious the
clerk was asked to telephone for
police officer, the father saying he
feared he would have trouble i'm
getting his daughter on the 1925
train for the East. Officer james
Creighton arrived and to him the
story was Gded. Coming on the
train from Washington the old gen
tleman asked srlend on the train
to assist him in getting the young
lady to the hotel, and then to the
tram East, as he feared there would
be an attempt to take his daughter
from him at tho depot.
At the hotel, where the parents
eyes were taken from the daughter
for a moment, the clerk beard a
noise and saw the girl endeayoring
to escape through the reception
room window. The father grabbed
the girl just in time. Later the
young brunette made another inef-
fectuaI attempt to escape. This
time she cried piteously, IL will
never be happy" Il cannot live
without him" 81 love him dearer
than life, and similar EXCAVATIONS.
The girl, accompanied by the faith
q, the officer, and friend, was
put on the 12:25 train yesterday,
and the couple left town.
The old mans heart seemed near
ly broken, and his sad story follows:
Two years ago his daughter lcft
her home for Washington. Penn
sylvania. Ella was q bright and
respected girl, and had had many
attentions from gallants in that
locality. She accepted a position
rs waiter in the largest hotel in
Washington, the Bailey. A large
colored man named Moseby was an
employe at the hotel, aud Ella be-
came infatuated with the dusky
omplOye A courtship on the sly
followed, and an engagement was
tho outcome. Ella confidcd the
secret Of her engagement to a fellow
waitress, and this person told the
housekeoper in charge. Alarmed
at such an OF tcome, the housekeepor
lost no time in telographiug the
girls father. who Immediately came
on. The dispatch stated for the
father not to come direct to the
hotel lest the daughter escape. 1t
was arranged finally, and the father
was brought face to face in a room
in the hotel with bis orring Jaugh-
ter. lie told her to come home.
She refused, saying she loved the
colored man and would marry him.
The stormiest kind Of scene fol.
lowed, and the father finally had to
secure aid to get his daughter
aboard the train for Wheeling.
The further course Of father and
daughter is not known, but it is
thought the girl viii escape and
join What gho calls her "colorod
lover"