The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-26
A BRIEF HONEYMOON.
Sixteen Year-Old Wife Taken
From Her Husband.
AFTER TWO DAYS or Welded Joy
An Kiepemens That Ended i'm the Bride
Going TO the House Of the Good
Shepherd.

Married only to be parted by an angry
father 10 the fate that befeli Charles w.
Graham and handsome Hattie Anspaugh-
Now the latter is in the Honse of the Good
Shepherd and the former. having gotten
out OF the clutches of the police. is either
at his home in Colby or trying to reach
there as soon rs possible.
The love affair had its beginning st
Colby, where Dir. Anspaugh was . mer-
chant and for Q long time postmaster.
Among the members of his family was
Hattie. blue-eyed girl in her sixteenth
year. She was Of q comedy form and had
bright, winning face. All these charms
were not lost on Charles W. Graham. He
was a decade older than Hattie, but
laid siege to her heart with great ardor.
The father looked upon Grsham's suit
with disfavor. and told aim to get out of
his sight and leave the girl alone. but still
Graham loved on, hoping that kind for
tune would aid him TO secure the chosen
one. Finally his mother asked Mr.. Ans
paugh for his daughters hand for her son.
but the reply was the same. The old say
ing about love laughing at locksmiths
must have held good in the present case.
Last Friday the Anspaugh family moved
to Seattle and took up their residence near
the water works on Lake Washington.
There. with his family collected around
the hearth, Mr.. Anspaugh thought he was
safe from the hateful presence of Charles
Graham.
In this belief he counted without his
host, for last Saturday afternoon, while
Mr.. Anspaugh was away, Mr. Graham ap-
peared on the scene and quietly walked of
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the auditors Office. where a license was
obtained and then Justice Caldwell tied
the knot. Then they took rooms ar the
Florence house on Madison street, and.
being free from paternal coercion. enjoyed
life while Mr.. Anspaugh and the police
were making thorough search OF the city
and teiegraphing to the different towns
along the sound for information of the
young couple. No information was OBJ
tanned and the case looked bad for the
father, who was very anxious TO reclaim
his daughter, until Officer Loveland met
the couple on the water front yesterday
morning as they were taking the boat for
Colby. Although not pleased at the pros
pect OF going TO the station, they accepted
the inevitable with good grace and soon
were in the private Office with Chief
Jackson and Capt. Hogle.
Graham was scared when he was told
that it was wrong to marry a girl only 16
years old and that he might go to Jail, as
Mr.. Anspaugh intended to prosecute him.
The wife, however. went up to him and
put her arms around him and spoke
comforting words until he was taken away
by an officer. Then Mrs. Graham was
given an opportunity to return to the
parental roof but would not accent only
on condition that an officer go with her.
Detective Roberts accompanied her and
found that Mr.. Anspaugh had gone to the
police station in quest of news. He re-
turned to the house. howev,r, in few
minutes. and informed his daughter that
she would be placed in the House of the
Good Shepherd.
About this time Graham. who had been
released by the police. appeared at the
house and asked Mr.. Anspaugh what he
was going to do about the matter, seeing
that the girl was legally married. Mr..
Anspaugh denied that the marriage was
legal owing TO the age of the girl, and tod
Graham to get out of the house before he
carried his annoying conduct too far. He
also informed Graham that he would not
have daughter of his married TO a WORTH
less felioE. Graham returned to police
headquarters and told Capt. Hogie that
his father-in-law had been very hard on
him and he thought. If the police had no
further use for him, he would go. Owing
to the fact that the laws do not provide
punishment for such cases he was allowed
TO 60. >
The young lady was put in the House of
be- faf IL
she asked him if he thought lie was doing
right. He replied in the affirmative and
the matter was settled. Mrs. Anspaugh
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