The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
SPOILED THEIR TRIP.
Telegram Heads off an Eloping Couple
From Garrett.

Telegram Heads off an Eloping Couple
From Garrett.
One Somerset county couples dream
was blighted Sunday night by Detectives
Denniston and Martin O'Mara, together
with an irate father, and never lived tC
bloom in the Windy City by the lakes. "a
which they were going, says the Pitts
burg Post. Both lovers will be sem
back home in the morning.
The arrest was caused by a telegram re-
ceived from :. =. Lane, the father, al
Garrett, Somerset county, asking the po-
lice To arrest William Christner and Liz.
zie Lane on train No. , of the Baltimore
* Ohio, arriving in Pittsburg at $50. The
telegram came too late. but il was dis
covered that the train was an hour late,
and the officers were glad, for the last
sentence of the telegram stated that there
was reward Of 50. 1t also stated the
couple had tickets for Chicago, purchased
at lockwood.
When the detectives boarded the train
they had no trouble locating the couple
by their general honeymoon appearance,
He had his coat off and was lying with
his head on her shoulder. When Captain
Denniston grabbed him and told him Ia
come along he at once pulled out cheap
revolver that was more dangerous 10 the
man who held il than the one il was aimed
at. The two detectives, however, pulled
the gun from him and told who they were
He very promptly said he thought they
were bandits and apologized for wanting
10 shoot, explaining that he had spent a
number of years in the west aud was kind
of handy with the gun.
The disturbed bridegroom-eiect then
wanted to dicker with the officers, and of
fered a compromise in the way OF n SO
note, saying he did not have much mon
ey, and was likely 10 need most of it for
the wedding trip. Captain Denniston,
who is always good natured, winllsd the
other eye and produced the telegram
saying:
'The old man goes you Sl5 better"
Christner looked longingly at the tele-
gram and then at the girl. Finally he
concluded that the old man was playing
pretty stiff game himself, and he had
better not call il, not that he loved the
girl less, but the SIS more. The captain
decided the matter for him by aunounc-
ing that money would not let him out,
and the pair were taken to Central
station.
The girl is IS years old and Christner is
-. He IS sawmiiI hand, and has leen
working IL the neighborhcod Of Garrett
for year or more. lie admitted that be
was running away with the girl, and
that they intended getting married - hoG
they reached Chicago. He had the iielS-
cts in his pocket. together with az
autograph alhlm. In the latter Lizzie
Lane had written on January 20, lS95:
"When woods aud fields divide as and
you no more | see, just take your pen
and paper aud drop line 10 me-"
On another leaf ChrIstner had started a
diary of his honeymoon, aud bad written
that lac left Garrett yesterday and caught
the Baltimore & Ohio train for Chicago at
Rocllw od. tie had signed his own name
and that of Lizzie Christner.
The girl did not want to talk very
much. simply saying that her father did
not want her to keep company with
Christner, bat that she would run oil
with him again on the first opportunity.