The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-17
AN ELOPEME EMIT.
The Illegal Honeymoon of u Gay Young Couple
suddenly Terminated.

| A sad young man and weeping girl
were ION the carpet at police heat.quar-
| tiers yesterday. The young man was Guy
Stanford the son of prominent business
| man of Arkansas City while the young
woman Bertha Etterson is the daughter of
| prominent Hebrew merchant Of Angus
ia. The former is a blonde with his hair
cut pompadour and he is eternally smok-
| ing cigaretts.t The latter is not good look
ing and looks more like an Italian than a
Hebrew. She is. however, rather attract
i've on account of romantic disposition
she has. She seems to be giddy aud is
said to he accomplished. Well to the
story. Guy Stanford was at Augusta last
Saturday and, as he states. came TO the
train early in the morning for the pur-
| pose of coming to Wichita.
She put in an appearance, also, and in
sisted OH coming with him. to which he
evidently made no objections. They ar
| rived and went straight to the Occidental
hotel, where they registered as Guy Stan
ford and wife, and were assigned 10 room
SIS. Mr.. Beck, the proprietor. with an eye
to business, visited their room in their alb
sence and found large trunk in it. This
satisfied him that everything III a financial
way would be all right; but after the birds
had flown, bseJuently, he ascertained to
his sorrow that the trunk belonged to a
travelling man that lodged there the pre-
vious week.
Thursday evening the gay young couple
quietly descended the back stairway, and
left for parts unknown to Mr.. Beck.
After the departure OF Bertha from
L I,ar
mother smelled mouse and the next train
brought her to Wichita. She went to the
probate judges office and found that the
pair bad not yet applied there tor IL
cense The mother then constituted her
self into detective and impaired her Sc
cret suspicious to no one, fearing that If
she told the police about it they would tell
the reporters about it and the scandal
would get into the papers. The fact OF
the matter is the police and reporters
were watching the young couple since
their arrival III the city and were awaiting
the deuouement with some interest. The
mother searched the city for four long
days and finally concluded to invoke the
aid of the police. OF course the moment
she did so all the police had to do was to
~ dIi SSG LILO OdhSo ScuP'C, AcA WHY
had ali their movements noted. Accord
ingly Officers Sutton and Hatcher went
to the Plaza on North Lawrence
avenue, proceeded to room q and arrested
the young woman. Soon the young man
also showed up and he, too, was placed
under arrest on the charge of iewedly
abiding. When the young woman was
arrested she stated that they had been
married in CONVEY county, but when the
young man was accosted by the police he
was asked to produce his marriage certit-
cate. He bluntly told them that he never
had specialized on document of that
kind Both of them were then taxed to
the police station where they met the
young woman's mother face to face. As
In all such cases the girl turned out to be
the diplomat and she stipulated right
there that if the mother intended for her
to return home it must be on the condi-
ton that Guy should not be prosecuted.
She had the edge on the mother
so to speak as che is 10 years old and her
own boss" as she expressed it. The
mother saw the point and when the agree
ment was made that Guy should not be
prosecuted that young Lothario drew Il
long breath and emitted fine blast of
cigarette smoke thrSugh his nostrils and
watched it complacently as 1T mean
dered towards the ceiling of the
police court, where the interview
WAS held. Then the question
of board at the Occidental came up and
Bertha made proposition to pay half of
it if Guy would pay the other half. Guy
is somewhat of blood and he scorned
the proposition, saying with the air of
Vanderbilt that he would pay all the ex-
penses. This was satisfactory all round
and all left the police court apparently
happy. The mother kept mighty
close to her daughter, but the
daughter threw glances over her shoulder
at Mr.. Stanford and both read each others |
minds in this way.
When they registered at the Occidental !
as Guy Stanford and wife they had no idea, |
perhaps. that the mother would pursue |
them, but they afterwards heard Of the
arrival and the name was erased |
and another substituted. At 10 o'clock /
last night both of them were seen sitting I
on the rear door steps of the |
Union depot talking over their troubles, |
and apparently making plans for the fu- |
ture, while the mother was in a distant |
keeping mighty sharp eye On |
them. After leaving the police station, |
Stanford telegraphed 10 his father for |
money, and looked blue last night when
he had not heard from him He was tod /
about the suspension of bank down
there, and attributed 10 that source
his fathers hardness in forwarding
a remittance. The Arkansas City Traveller
Of last evening contains AN account of the |
elopement. based on report sent from
here. and intimates that there is IA sequel |
TO the story that will mitigate to some eX-
tent the blame attached to the young man.
The young woman Is what one might call
rather fresh" and is not like any other !
Jewess the EAGLE reporter ever saw.