Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-27
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Word WAS received from Madison, Boone
county, tonight, to the effect that Peter
p. Kinder and Mrs. Luz. Hairless had
eloped from that place. The clippers
are supposed to have made their way TO
Logan county, whore they have friends
who will take care Of them.
Five years ago, when Mrs. Lnm. Har-
less was seventeen years old, ana one OF
the bellies OF the whole country round
about, she was cOurted by Peter Kinder.
Her name was Jennie Barker, and her
family was one of the largest and most
prominent in Boone county. KINDER
applied 20 Miss Jennie's father, Frank
lin Barker, for his daughters hand,
having previously secured her consent
The old man did not consider the match
desirable and vetoed it most emphatic
ally, notifying the young man that II he
ever appeared about his house again he
would put enough lead into him TO sink
him. After two weeks' psrleying and
planning, the young couple
DECIDED TO ELOPE.
They started from the paternal home
about midnight, both upon single
horse. But the horse was good one,
and although the old man and son
and Lum. Hairless, an neighbor youth
upon whose suit for Miss Jennie's hand
the father looked with favor, started
within an hour ia pursuit, the clippers
reached BrOwnstown, the nearest rail-
road station, an hour and ten minutes
in advance. IL was just ten minutes
till the train for this city
was due, and the couple waited
patiently in the waiting room for
the train. When the time was up, they
were informed that the train was an
hour late. They were undecided
whether TO walt for it, but thinking
their departure would not be ditcOver-
ed till morning, decided TO wait The
minutes sped along till it would be
only three minutes to wait, then two,
and then the train came into view. AT
the same instant the old man and the
pursuing party appeared around bend
in the road. The train and the pur-
suers stopped 81 the station at almost
the same instant. The clippers tried TO
get aboard before the passengers got OF,
but an oficious brakeman stopped
them, aud the father OF Miss Jennie
seized her and
BORE HER AWAY IN TRIUMPH
after revolvers had been drawn and d
general shooting scraps narrowly
Gverted.
Two weeks later old man Barker was
supposed to have gone TO mill, when
Kinder called at the Barker home and
met Miss Jennie. The Old man came
suddenly into the room, and loves
Young dream was broken by the
father, who summarily fred young Kin
der from the house. Several shots were
exchanged between Barker and Kinder
in the fight which followed. Kinder
W. x = revolver, and the first shot
q. the old man 10 the side, making
iesh wound which amounted TO
Ugh to put him out Of the
sght. The daughter, seeing her
father shot, went TO him, and
in her anger, told Kinder she never
wanted TO see him again. Kinder took
IL as final and left. Kinder served
short time in jail for the shooting.
Three weeks later, under duress, Miss
Jennie married Lum Hairless. She and
her husband have been parted several
times, but he has refused to accede TO
her demand for a divorce, knowing she
had met and
AGAIN RENEWED HER LOVE
for Kinder, and that she would marry
him the day she was free. She is now
% years old, and is as pretty as when
Kinder first courted her, snd she will be
married to the man Of her choice as
soon as the legal difficulties are removed,
II her husband or father does not Kill
him before that time.