St. Paul daily globe., 1893-11-28

A sensational elopement occurred in
this city shortly after midnight Sunday
night. The parties are youthful-he is
nineteen and she fifteen. The young
lady lived with her mother ON Fourth
street north between Seventh and
Eighth avenues. The young man be-
longs to an aristocratic family in the
Eighth ward. The story was revealed
in highly dramatic manner.
About 2 O'Clock yesterday morning a
woman. forty-five years old, was seen
hurrying along Hennepin avenue. She
was evidently laboring under great ex-
element. She wore no hat, but had
wrapped shawl about her head. and
her whole attire indicated that she had
donned it hastily. In front Of the pub.
lie library she stopped a gentleman,
whom she overlook there, and said to
him:
Can you tell me where 1 can find an
officer?"
The gentleman told heI there ought to
be one block or two further up, and
then he asked her what the trouble was.
''My daughter has run away from me.
She came home tonight little after II
o'clock with young gentleman
she has been keeping company
with. They went into her room
which opens into mine. They must
have thought l was asleep. for after a
while [ heard something that aroused
my suspicious l got up and went to
the room. When l opened the door
and looked in [ found them there.
The moment they saw me they
ran out Of the room, down stairs
and into the street. l dressed
myself as quickly as possible. Before
leaving the house | looked around my
daughters room, and found she had left
her Overshoes. hat and jacket, and
couldn't have had anything to wear on
her head but toboggan cap, so picked
up her overShoeS, Jacket and hat and
brought them with me-"
While she was talking an officer
standing on the corner of Eleventh
street overheard every word, for she
was speaking quite loud. He came
over, and the woman continued her
story, which was not by any means fin
iShed.
After l left home" she said. II
went up to Western avenue. As l was
crossing the bridge two rough-Iooking
men approached me and told me to hold
up my hands. | did so. and they
searched me. They found no money,
so they took off my gloves, and one of
them said: Let the fool co. Then
they ran north, and I hurried over
mere.
Il felt sure my girl had gone to her
married sisters house. She lives in a
house on the street back of the WaverIy
hotel, between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets. When got there and rang the
bell my married daughter opened the
door. l asked her if her sister was
there. She said she had been. As |
went up the front stairs l heard two
people going down the back stairs. |
believe they were my girl and the young
man."
The mother then begged the officer to
go with her to the house. The officer
and the gentleman whom she had ac-
costed advised her to go down to police
headquarters, and report the matter
there, whereupon the woman eX-
claimed:
"Oh, no; wouldn't go there for the
world. Mr.. - (naming city Officially
is in our family"
The officer thereupon accompanied
the woman 10 tne house OF her married
daughter. On the way he asked her
why it was her young daughter should
go to her sisters house if she was doing
wrong. The mother answered: II
don't know, only that my married
daughter used to be wild. and she ran
away with the man she married."
When they arrived at the house the
woman went in the front way, aud the
officer stationed himself in the rear
But the birds had flown. In vain did
the frantic mother search the house.
After they left, the officer escorted
the woman down to Hennepin avenue
and Fourth street, where he gave her
into the charge of another policeman,
who accompanied her to Washington
avenue. From there she reached home
safely, with the aid of various police
officers whose beats extend along Wash
lngton avenue and Seventh avenue
north.