The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-23
SIZE ELoPED WITH a NEGRO.
Marriage of a Millionaire's Daughter
to an Elevator Boy.
From The New York Worlt

FROM Lnt new y OIh w OIlu
St Paul. Sept 20.-It was learned to-
day that the pretty 19-year-old daughter
Of millionaire Eugene Mehl had eloped
with and married James Robinson, col
ored.
Eugene Mehl was until last week pro
prietor Of the Ryan Hotel, the largest
piece of property in the northwest, and
worth alone nearly 81, 600, 900. Robinson
was employed as elevator boy in the
hotel.
Jennie Mehl, who eloped, has been miss
ing from the hotel since Friday. All
search for her by the city detectives was
| in vain until to-day. Then she was found
| with her husband and another couple
named Morgan Morgan is colored and
his wife is white. Eugene Mehl, the
/ hayward girls father, has lived in ST.
| Paul for some years He owns several
! large pieces of business property here and
| is rcputed to be worth from So, 600, coo to
| 81, ,000 His daughter Jennie has al
ways moved in the best of society aud
was considered the belle of the city.
When Robinson was elevator boy Miss
/ Jennie would reCreate frequently by rid
ing mp and down in the elevator
Robinson secured ten days leave of alb
sence from the hotel on Friday last. He
| left the hotel in the morning Miss Jen-
| ME was present with her family at dinner
and went out to meet the elevator boy.
Robinson, after hiding with his wife,
whom he married on Saturday in Mime
| apolis came over to St. Paul last night,
and installed her at the Morgan house.
He also went to the Ryan hotel and here
his story leaked out among the employees.
/ Eugene Mehl sold the Ryan hotel last
week for 81 100000, and, at first thinking
little of his daughters absence over
night left for Chicago with the greater
part of his family the next morning, leav-
ing word for Jennie to remain here until
he came home, He therefore knows moth
ing as yet of the marriage of his daugh-
ter. Emil Mehl. a son, remained in St
Paul, and when his sister did not return the
next morning instituted search for her.
An endeavOr was made from the first to
keep her disappearance a secret, it being
said that she had gone to Chicago, but
| this failed.
The ceremony which bound the fair
/ yonHg white girl to COlOred James Robin
son, who is himself less than 20 years old,
was performed Saturday afternoon by
! Rev James Hickman
| Il married the pair Saturday after
/ noon said Mr.. Hickman tonight to n
! World correspondent, Eat the house of
/ Wilson, a labOring man. Miss Mehl said
! she loved Robinson, and they produced a
marriage license. 1 knew that if / did not
marry them some one else would, and, as
| it is my business, l did it, | took care to
see that everything was perfectly regular
and legal"
Mr.. Hickman is a colored Baptist
/ preacher who spent thirty-two years as a
| slave. He says in the last five Years he
| has married 100 couples Of which the
! brides were white.
The marriage was witnessed by two
| colored men Miss Mchl was hayward IN
/ her early youth, but appeared to be Sc
| date in her later years. She has had
many admirers in the best circles in St
Paul and several proposals of marriage
| which she refused.
She was seen at her home with the
! Morgans tonight by The World CORE
| spondent. She said that no effort had
been made to conceal her marriage from
the public, but begged that she be treated
fairly. Her husband was with her, but
throughout the interview was silent
a married Mr. Robinson because loved
him. said the girl, land l elOped because
knew my parents would not permit me
to marry him. l Won ] have been willing
to obey them in anything else, but I knew
that l could not be happy with any onG
but James for my husband. l know what
/ have done and am doing, and have no re
greet TO express"
The affair has caused them profound
sensation in st. Paul