Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-08-12
A FOOLISH YOUNG GIRL.
ELOPED WITH A PICTURE AGENT,
BUT WAS CAPTURED.
Miss Margaret Williams, of Hazleton,
Left Her Home and Took Up with u
Travelling Man-Ber Father Caught Her
at White Haven.


Left Her Home and Took Up with a
Travelling Man-Ber Father Caught Her
at White Haven.
White Haven had considerable
amount of excitement last week, which
was something quite unusual for that
quiet borough. The accounts of the af-
fair, given by the Journal and the
Wilkesbarre Record, are as follows: A
young couple stepped from Valley
train and went to the White Haven
hotel few days ago. The man regis
tered as C. A. Lemer and wife, of AL
toona, Pa. They passed the time pleas
antly and seemed to be very fond of each
others company. The following morn
lug telegram came from the chief of
police at Hazleton to Policeman Horton
to arrest the yonng man at Fishers ho-
tel and hold him. There being no such
hotel and no certainty as to who was
meant, nothing was done. Later in the
day there was handed to the town con-
stable a telegram saying that he should
"lock up the young man who was with
the girl at the hotel and keep him from
the girls father"
Constable Transue went ton the White
Haven hotel and began to make some
inquiries about the young man and was
thus engaged when train came in from
Hazleton. Two men jumped quickly
from the train, and noticing the star on
the officers vest, rushed up to him and
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officer had time to reply the man who
made the inquiry caught sight of the
young woman who was known as Mrs.
Lemer, and rushed toward her.
The enraged man was Watkins 7.
Williams, of Hazleton, and the man
with him was his brother, John. The
young woman is Margaret Williams,
daughter of Watkins.
Pursued by her angry father, Margaret
ran through the hotel, and was on her
way down stairs when her father at
tempted to catch hold of her, and acci-
dentally struck her on the face, and
from the force of the blow she was
thrown down and slid to the bottom.
She jumped up quickly, however, and ran
crying to the street, and was there caught
and held. In the meantime the officer
had caught hold of Williams at the top
of the stairway, and when he saw that
the girl was out of the way he let
the father go, and following the direc-
tion of the girl, took her to his own
home.
AS soon as the father was released he
went back to the platform of the station
and ran after Lemer, who had put in
his appearance. Lemer was caught by
John Williams, and his brother Watkins,
approaching the pair, struck Lemer a
heavy blow on the jaw, knocked him
from his brothers hold, and then rush
ed upon him.
Quite crowd assembled by this time,
and they separated Williams and Lemer
Lemer asked to be protected from
Williams. During all this time Williams
made Intellectual attempts to get at
Lemer, and while in the office of the
burgess tried twice more to get at him,
exclaiming that he would kill him.
Even after Lemer was locked up,
Williams showed his infuriation by offer
ing to give the burgess S., 900 bail if he
would only let him have the keys and
get into the lookup with the prisoner.
Williams finally went home, but return
ed to White Haven on the first train the
next morning. with Officer Trescott and
a warrant. The whole party went to
) HazletOn on 1913 train, and the case
was settled and the young man set free.
Lemer is an agent for picture frames.
He is good looking young fellow, but
too smooth and too sleek for an honest
man, but was just the kind of a fellow
to be taken up by a foolish young girl.
He had been acquainted with the young
woman only short time, but had sue
ceeded in infatuating her.
Miss Williams is 90 years DID, good
looking, well-dressed, and apparently
well-educated. She maintained that she
had been ill-treated at home. She had
left home on Monday morning, with her
fathers consent, ostensibly to visit her
grandmother at Scranton. Lemer knew
of her intended visit, met her, and they
stopped at White Haven. She refused
at first to go back home but finally
yielded to the persuasions of her family
and friends. Her mother was killed in
the trolley accident near Jeanesville on
the 30th of last March. Hitherto she
has held good reputation and her
acquaintances are much surprised at
her conduct.
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