The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-25
'TWIXT DARK AND DAWN.
MR.. AND MRS. l.. ELEOPOULO FLED
BY LIGHT or THE MOON.

tened Their own Flieht-Their
COuntrymen I'm savannah Have
Been the victims of Their Guile
and the Spoil of Their Bow and
spear-An Unsavory Reputation
Accentuated.
l.. Eleopoulo, the Bull street confec-
toner, and Mrs. Eleopoulo left Savannah
for New York Friday night. leaving be-
hind them a small army of creditors, who
descended yesterday upon the remnants Of
the property the fleeing confectioner had
left behind, and took summary possession.
OF late the Eleopoulos have been in
peck of trouble, caused by the elopement
of their daughter with Nick Aprea, an
Italian, whom they did not fancy in the
role of a sutton. They had selected what
they considered a more eligible party IN
the person of a fellow countryman from
Philadelphia, and were disagreeably ur-
gent in their demands that the young wo-
man should accept him. In her refusal to
do so she was equally firm and her par
ents, in the effort to coerce her consent,
had resorted to the methods of compul-
sion in vogue in the dark ages, but which
Of late have fallen into somewhat Ill re-
quse.
1t is said, with a show Of reason and
an appearance of truth, that they kept
the girl confined in a dark room and en-
phasized and accumulated their demands
that she should accede to their wishes
in the matter by physical punishment.
The neighbors have tales galore to tell of
h. ~ ~,
ed and her elopement with Aprea, as
would have been the case had she eloped
with any one else, surprised no one of
them. She is of much more than average
intelligence, and has received the benefit
Of quite a fair amount of education, Is
pretty and attractive, and possessed of a
spirit TOO high to permit her to submit
calmly TO the il-treatment to which she
was subjected by her parents.
AT any rate, she ended matters for good
and all by clipping with the man upon
whom she had fixed her affections, and
who it appeared was in every way worthy
of them and of her. This happened sew
eral days ago, and the news was received
by the parents with weeping and waiting
and gnashing of teeth. The clouds of dis
appointment were lowering around them,
and their childs alleged ingratitnde stung
them like a serpent's fang. In the domi-
Gle of the Eleopoulos there was coutin-
ual lamentation, and each piece of famii-
lar household furniture brought up recol-
lections of their lost and absent daughter
that preyed upon their minds until they
could stand it no longer. Helped in reach
ing the determination by other considera-
tons, they decided to migrate to green
fields and pastures new.
These additional considerations were the
opportunities of their creditors, to whom
&haxr ind In, 49,
TO 5000 The exact amount for which
they had succeeded in roping in the peo-
pie of Savannah is not and probably will
never be known. for the name of their
creditors is legion. II is said that they
have touched almost everyone of their
countrymen in Savannah for larger or
smaller amounts and that few of the lat
| ter have escaped, giving over their hard
earned sheckels, the products of the sale
of peanuts, bananas,o or fish, under the influ-
ence of the beguidng and confidence in
spring eloquence of the Eleopou-
los. However this may be it
is certain that with their disap-
pearance the weeping and wailing We're
transferred to numbers of their compatri-
/ OTIS, who in their innocent credulity had
| been induced to deliver up various small
amounts and who filed the offices of the
| magistrates with their presence and their
| howls for attachments and revenge.
! First on the scene with an attachment
was Eli Arvaniti. a fish dealer in the
market. who got wind of the departure
| of his pon6am friends, and sued out an
! attachment before Justice Nathans for
$S6. Nick Boldea, another Greek, fol
! lowed with an attachment for about the
same amount and Leopold Adler swore
| out distress warrant for the unpaid rent
of the store on Bull street and Brough-
| ton lane, and an attachment on an open
account for merchandise. The distress
warrant amounted to $S776 and the at
tachment to $2l.67. Various other parties
followed with claims for various smaller
| amounts
These were all sued out before Justice
Nathans, and he levied upon the fixture.
| and the stock of goods in the store. Ir
what is popularity known as the twinklina
| OF a lambs tale the candy that made VI
the stock had been removed to the Office
of the magistrate and the only thing left
was the soda water apparatus, recently
put in, but bought on the installment plar
and never paid for. Title to this was re
| served and remains in the manufacturers
Scarcely had this levy been made wher
a second lot of attachments and distress.
warrants began to flow into the office o.
Justice NJ Naughtin. The Savannah Gro
Gerry Company had a claim for $179 Kava
nauEh & Brennan for 800 Ceilings, Gray
son & Co. for SIS. The owner of the prem
ises In which the Eleopoulos lived, tn,
second story or the house on State stree t
the second door east of Bull swore out
distress warrant for rent, and there wer,
lnborers' liens and claims of other kind!
for Justice Naughtin TO act upon. TIL,
household goods went the way of th
stock In the store, only that they wer,
carried to the office of Justice NaughtiI
instead OF to that of Justice Nathan.
The magistrates say that had they want
ed to do so they could have issued
hundred attachments during the day, bu
that they stopped because they alread,
had more claims than the goods on hanC
would satisfy. Every few minutes an ex
cited Greek would rush franticany int,
the office of one of the magistrates an,
! inform that functonary that he wante,
TO swear out an attachment against tn,
} property ard effects of L. Eleopoulo, an,
that no particularly desired to do il quick
He was generally informed that he ha,
lost his chance, and that there was moth
ing left for him 10 do.
The Eleopoulos seem to have repeate,
in Savannah the same tricks of whicl
they have been guilty in New York an,
other places. Their reputation is decided