The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-21
The Two Lovers Laid a Des-
perate Plan.
Miss Edwardes Contemplated
Marrying Mr. BOeck.
THEN GET A DIVORCE.
And Marry Billy SIOan-But
Wedding Rehearsal
Convinced Them That They
Could Not Live Apart.


Boston, Mass, July 21-Afr. and Mrs.
William w. Sloan, Jr., the young couple
who eloped from Cambridge month ago
and created the matrimonial sensation of
the year, are living happily at Marble
head Neck, and today for the first time,
consented to tell the whole story from
their point of view.
They deny many of the statements that
have been made about them, and take ex-
ception to many of the printed statements
of Mrs. Sloan's mother, Mrs. E. J. Ed
They say that Mrs Edwardes insisted
that her daughter should marry George
This is the story told by both of the
Sloan knew he would be disinherited if
he married Miss EdWardes, and that they
had agreed that she should marry MI
Boeegk and get a divorce; that TINS was
I'll the very day OF the wedding that they
found that they could not make TINS sac
rifee for Miss EdWardes mother and de-
-Four years ago Miss Edwardes was a
pretty miss of Is years, just budding into
womanhood, Yivactous, impulsive attract
At that time George .goeck was a stu
dent a the Institute of Technology. He
came from St Louis, where his tather IS
regarded as one of the city's Wealthiest
Young Boeck met Miss Edwardes. and
he liked her. They met again and he
called at her house Miss Edwardes liked
him and SO did her mother. IN fact, her
mother thought a great deal of him, and
made up her mind that he was just the
man to make a suitable husband for her
They had been keeping company several
months, when young BOeck proposed mar
riage and the girl accepted him. Soon
after this he was Obliged to leave the In
stitute of Technology and go back home
It. was not until the first of this, year
called a change of heart. 1t was then
William ", Sloan, Jr., came into Miss
Young Sloan had the large front room
OF the EdW ardeS house, and a smaller
up as a den" with an endless conec-
was a room that attracted the attention
of young Miss Edwardes. She found
the young student was even more admira-
bic than anything in his room.
thought much Of it at first Mrs Ed
wardes was about the first person who
fo REMIND her da4Ieh{er ocnssionailv f5a al
she was engaged to be married to young
Mr.. Boeck of St. Louis. and that the time
Of the marriage ceremony was not far
IN the company of the young man from
to her lover in st. Louis. Sloan knew
that she was engaged to be married, and
quaintance did not make any reference
to it.
Things came to a climax one day. Mrs.
Edwardes had viewed with growing alarm
the attachment growing up between her
never gave an intimatfon of her suspi-
cionS that the young couple were in love.
she raised OBJECTIONS When they sat on
the steps together, and reminded them of
what the nelghbors would think Of her
daughter spending too much time with one
man when she was engaged to another.
Rose said she could see no harm in it,
as she was not doing ANYTHING wrOng
The breach between mother and daughter
grew wider, and one day they met in the
flashed fire.
marry Mr.. Boeck.
Young sloan heard the loud talk and
braided him, and he took the part of the
All this time they looked upon their
marriage as an impossibility, but affairs
nnaIly reached a stage where both com
weeks before the day set for the wedding
they began to consider an elope1nent
They discussed it al every opportunity,
but did not breathe word of their inten-
Young Sloan said that If he got married
would, because his father was a Very de-
termined man, but he would not care for
assured him that she did not care for the
money, II they could get married without
even in the fact that Rose might marry
years, then get a divorce and return to
her true love. The case was a desperate
one, and 1t was becoming more so every
day. Rose Edwardes spent great part
Of the time in her own room, crying as if
her heart would break. Her eyes were
red and she grew thin and pale. Sloan
noticed it and he, too. began to spend
But they finally came to. an understand
ing, though it almost broke their hearts.
They agreed that it would be better for
things to take their course; that Rose
could marry George Boeck. and go to St.
Louis to Live and try to forget that she
had ever seen Billy Sloan.
On the night before, the. wedding came
the rehearsal in the church. Young Sloan
was there. When it was over both Sloan
and Rose had one thought. The marriage
ceremony between Rose and Boeck should
never take place. It was all arranged
not the wedding, but the elopement. He
had one friend in the affair, and between
them they engaged the cab. laid out plans
and fixed everything with a due regard
Rose came downstairs, passed out of the
front door, so that her mother could see
her. and went around the house to the
yard. Sloan was there. He caught her
in his arms, lifted her over the fence and
jumped over himself They got into a
cab. the driver touched the horses and
away they went towards Boston.
The rest lis history"
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