The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-17
STOPPED BY PAPA.
Eloping Lovers Caught on
the Wharf.
ONE WAS c. B. ROBES SON.
His Companion Was a Pretty
Young Blonde.
THEY WERE GOING TO STOCKTON.
The Rodes Will Not Discuss the
Matter-A Marriage License
Issued Yesterday.
THEY WERE GOING TO STOCKTON.

There was a lively and interesting scene
at Washington-street wharf Friday after
noon just prior to the sailing of the
steamer Sunol on her o'clock trip to
| Stockton.
! There was also a dram attic tinge to the
scene, which made it highly entertaining
for those who witnessed it. The dramatis
persona in the affair were c. B. Rode, the
drayman. his 22-year-od son George, a
! fair young damsel stylishlY dressed, Ser
geant of Police Tom Mahoney and an eX-
pressman.
Young Rode and his fair companion had
arrived upon the wharf first and were
about to go aboard the steamer when
Rode the elder drove up in a buggy and
! hailed his son.
| After speaking to his companion in low
! tone young Rode left her and approached
! his father. The two entered into CONVEX
| satlon, which soon became very animated.
well, I'm going, cried the young man.
''NO. you ara not going." Rode pere eX-
claimed. angrIly. shaking his fist under the
nose Of his son IN very threatening man
ner.
There seemed to be fair prospect of a
! fight between the two men when Sergeant
Mahoney appeared. He knew the elder
u r.
upon the young man.
ARREST that young man." said Rode
pere; but at this juncture the blonde young
! lady, who had been watching the proceed
| ings with wide-open eyes, spraDg forward,
crying:
"Oh, don't arrest my George; please
DON'T
Although Sergeant Mahoney is a gallant
maH. be did not relax his grasp at the
appeal of beauty thus tearfully made. lie
wanted to learn the particulars of the
| trouble.
This is my son." said the father, "and
he saws he is going to Stockton with that
woman" pointing to beauty, now in tears :;
but he isn't. l say. He got $50 from me-
and that is the way he is spending it. He
says he is married. but l don't believe il,
and he is not going to Stockton" and Mr..
| Rode spoke emphaticaliy.
As a crowd had collected by this time,
Sergeant Mahoney persuaded young Rode,
in order to avoid scene, to accompany
| his father in the buggy. But as he got in
the buggy beauty dried her tears and cried
plantiVeIy:
"Ob, George, don't leave me-"
Another incident occurred just here. An
eXpTessman drove up and, deposting two
valises on the wharf, said TO young RODE,
There's your luggage"
You take it back where you brought il
FROM" cried the elder Rode, and he
| whipped up his horse and drove off with
| his son. leaving deserted beauty, the ex-
pressman, the police officer and a score or
more grinniDg spectators behind.
This move WAS too much for the young
! lady. AS she saw her companion thus
whirled off she gave vent 10 scream and
| then dashed across East street after the
! buggy, crying: &c orge, oh, my George
dOn't take him away!'
WbetheT it was her piteous appeals or
his sons entrea ties is not known, but, any
way, the buggy was stopped until the far
! one caught up with it. A parley ensued
between the three, in the course of which
the young lady could be heard entreating
George hottie leave her. Parental power was
TOO strong, however, and Mr.. Rode finally
drove off with his son, while the young
lady returned to the wharf, and in snap
Dish tones told the expressman to return
| the things to an address on Ellis street.
She then boarded car that was going up
town.
The real cause of the trouble in the
Rode family could not be learned from
either Rode senior or his son, both of
| whom refused to discuss it in any way.
It was found out though that yesterday
a marriage license was issued to George
| II. Rode, aged % years, TO marry May Nc
Cabr, aged 10. From this it would seem
that differences had been healed and that
George and May had been united in mar
| ri3pn