The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-16
AN ELOPEMtAT N|PPtO
The Under Sher'f Cruelty Ends
q Little Romance.
YOUNG NASH is IN JAIL
He Ran Away With a School Girl. the
Daughter o.. His Employer She Is
Only l4-He Has Been in
the Reform School.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Big Timber. Dec. 13.-Under Sheriff
Sam jackson returned here this morn
ing. having in custody Gus Nash and
Blanche Thurman. who eloped from
here last Thursday and have since
been leading the officers a merry chase.
They finally overlook the pair at Three
Forks. Mont. and Nash now languishes
in Jail and will ave TO face a charge
OF abduction, as Miss Thurman is but
Il years old. Mr.. and Mrs. Thurman
came here last July from Miles City.
Thurman having secured the contract
for carrying the mail between this
place and Merino. Blanche n young
sash came with them. II was at Miles
City. where Mr.. Thurman kept a livery
stable. that Nash first appeared upon
the scene. He had not been long out
Of the reform school, having been sent
10 that institution from Great Falls.
Mr.. Thurman gave him a job in the
livery stable and when the move was
made To Big Timber Nash came along.
He was put to driving the stage IN the
north end of the route and had not
been long at the work when he came
back to Big Timber with n bullet hole
in his hand. He explained that while
he was driving as usual N day the
bullet came spinning along and struc
him I'm the hand. He did not know who
fired the shot and nae heard no report.
The story sounded rather fishy. but IL
was finally put down as one of the
FRANKS of the modern five-mile rifles,
for lack of a better explanation. IL
now appears hat Nash shot himself
for no other purpose than to be near
the object OF his alteration. who was
attending school here. He has been In
Big Timber ever since and his atten-
ton to Miss Thurman have been very
marked. He has gone with her To and
from school. morning. moor n night.
nearly every day for the past three
months M sometimes visited her at
the school grounds during recess.
The a1fai eliminated las Thursday
when Miss Thurman failed to return
from school at oon Mrs. Thurman
sent N OF the younger children to
ascertain where Blanche was. but the
child did not return until school vas
dismissed at 4 o'clock. when the mother
was Informed that Blanche had not
been at school hat day. When Mr..
Thurman returned from Melville about
6 o'clock he was informed Of his daugh-
ters disappearance, and at nee sur-
missing the trouble he hunted up Sheriff
DeIIart. They soon discovered that
Nash had secured a buggy and team
from Harrison's livery stable and he
and Blanche had been seen going to-
ward Boulder. Under Sheriff Jackson
started for Red Lodge to intercept the
runaways. but finding soon hat he
was out on a wild goose chase. retraced
his steps and finally overlook the pair
as related above. After going a short
distance In the Red Lodge direction
they had turned around and started for
Livingston. Their object was 20 get
10 some place where they could be mar
ried without a license. They stopped at
several places over night. but both aver
that they occupied separate rooms else
Nash might have even n more serious
charge than abduction to face.