The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-18
BRIDEGROOM CAME NOT
A Faithless Lover Leaves Town
on the Eve Of His Marriage.
Charles Batman's Flight a
Mystery.
The Wedding Feast was Prepared and
the Guests were Assembled to
Witness His Marriage to
Miss Eta May Allen
but he Failed to bo
Present.

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"A quiet home wedding was spoiled in
Topeka last week by the strange ac-
lions of the bridegroom. He hurriedly
left town a few hours before the time
of the ceremony and has not been seen
in Topeka since. He sent no word to
his prospective bride. and it was only
after waiting until the time had passed
that she knew she was not to be
bride
Miss Eta May Allen ana Charles
Batman We're to have been married at
12:45 o'clock last Sunday at the home
of the brides aunt, Mrs. AL Hayslip, 406
Topeka avenue. Everything was in
readiness and the minister was present,
but the groom came not.
Miss Allen has lived with her aunt
for about four years, her mother being
dead. Both she and Batman are only
is years Of age Miss Allen learned the
millinery trade at Sargent q Hayden's,
but has not been following her avoca-
ton for a year past. Young Batman's
home is at GIG Klein street, and he is
a brother of VIII Batman of Batman &
Clark He has worked in the Santa Fe
boiler shops for the last three years,
and before that he attended Branner
school.
The young people had been going to-
gether for eighteen months. They final
ly concluded to be married very quietly,
and set the day for Sunday. The young
husband was to take his wife to the
home OF his parents at 316 Klein street
after the marriage No guests We're
invited
On Saturday Batman secured the
marriage license and in the evening the
young man made his usual call He
and Miss Allen strOlled up town and
talked over their approaching nuptials.
They watched the Saturday evening
LhrOng lhar always nils the SIDEWALKS
on Kansas avenue. and they Joined the
crowd that strOlled up and down the
street When they returned to Miss
Aliens home nothing was said in part
ing which caused her to doubt that be-
/ fore another evening she would be
: bride.
Consequently the next day prepara-
lions were made for the ceremony.
As the time approached Miss Allen.
who is q TAN brunette, arrayed herself
in her wedding gown. Rev. AZ. L.
Thomas of the First Baptist church ar
rived to make the young cople man
and wife
But as the hands of the clock slowly
/ swung around to 1915 no groom APP
/ peared- The little party waited until
/ ], and Rev. MI Thomas left to catch a
/ train for Manhattan where he was to
] preach.
At first Miss Allen supposed that
something unforeseen was keeping her
I lover away but it was found that he
I had suddenly left town.
I Ratman was seen last week in Kan
4 sas City with his older brother, Fred
4 Batman, Dy a Topeka friend They
were starting for Texas.
III came away and left a. girl in To
/ pelIa expecting to marry me-" said
/ Charles Batman to his Topeka friend
She carried on at a great rate when
she found I wasn't coming. and tried
{ to commit suicide They had to have
physicians for her.
This was entirely false. Miss Allen
/ took her disappointment, if such it was
/ very calmly III he did not care to
marry me, he might have simply said
4 So and that would have sufhced," she
said to a reporter HE need not have
/ left town and made himself all this
] trouble"
Mr. Al Hayslip said that it was too
bad for the young man to lose his posi-
ton by leaving the city, when he need
not have done So Mr. Haysip has not
/ favored the attentions of young Bat
man to his niece from the start.
The groOms disappearance was a
I greater surprise to no one than to his
/ own family. II did not know ne was
+ going to get married" said VIII Bat
I man to a Journal reporter Miss Allen
4 told me three months ago that they
4 had stopped going together, and did
I not know that they had gone back to
each other until / saw them on the
! street Saturday night
81 don't know when Charles left, be
/ cause I am home but little at the same
/ time as he. He worked in the shops
] on EIlQay. EIGQ QlQ NOT leave DIT the
same time that he did, and L did not
know they were together. Fred is
i steel worker. and had been expecting
\ to go to Colorado for some time. and
4 supposed that was where he was go
/ ing.
II don't know why Charles should
have gone. 1t is very unlike him in
! every way. L never saw boy truer
to his word. He has always done just
! exactly what he said he would, or
/ what YOU told him to. I would have
/ trusted him with any amount of money.
/ He is large, but he is nothing but a
Z kid, and ] think he was frightened or
I he never would have left town.
Miss Allen was down to see mother
and mother took it SO hard that I have
not talked about the house in regard
to it. I know so little about it that
what I say may do some one an in
/ justice"
Since Batman has gone all kinds Of
/ reports have come to his family, one
! being that he drowned himself in the
Missouri river, but all have proved un-
I true.
Batman's associates at the shops
/ think he has gone elsewhere to get
work and know nothing Of his esca-
| pade.
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