The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-09-03
Sailie Byrns, Daughter of Police
Sergeant Byrns Married While
on a Pleasure Trip.
REPORTERS TOLD HER PARENTS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gaines. the Young
Couple. Intended to Tell All on
October 3-Eventful Trip
to Illinois.

Though C. r. Gaines who lives or
| Pendleton avenue and who is a jeweler ir
| the employ of +. L. Hugunin at No. 81;
! Olive street. and Miss Sallie Byrns
daughter of Police Sergeant George w.
| Byrns. of No. 3a37 Illinois avenue, had ar
| ranged TO wed on October g. csrtd became
restive yesterday and the couple were
| united at Ashley, Washington County. III.
The parents of the young lady were kept
| in the dark about the auspicious event. and
| the couple had planned to keep their mar
| riage a secret until the day set for the
| wedding. But their plans were spoiled by
the newspapers. A special dispatch TO The
Republic conveying the news was received
last night, and a reporter carried the in
telligence to Sergeant Byrns at the Third
District Station. and Mrs. Byrns at her
home. They We're as surprised pair as
can easily be conceived.
Young Gaines and Miss Byrns have
known each other some two years. They
have been engaged for fully a year. They
had not premeditated clipping, but the
romance OF such a marriage overcame them
at the last moment.
The evening of Saturday. September l.
will probably be long remembered by them.
for it was then that the first suggestion
OF yesterdays wedding was made. II hap
pened that Gaines called on his fiancee that
evening, and that they had decided to take
trip Sunday to Ashley, ILL.,. where live
the parents of Gaines. In the course OF
their conversation the young man jokingiy
suggested that they be united on the NOR
row. Miss Byrns laughed at the PROPOSE
tion and gave il no sober thought.
Next morning they started and on the
train the young man again proposed that
the ceremony be performed that day. Miss
Byrns was more willing then, and the
scheme was seriously entered upon.
At Ashley they remembered tnat Mr.
Gaines was not of age and that his father
consent would be necessary to get a Ii
cenSe So they went to Gaines senior and
told him what was in their minds. He did
not veto the proposition. and soon the trio
were whirling in buggy to Nashville, the
county seat of Washington County. This
legal requirement being satisfied. the couple
returned to Ashley, where they were mar
ried bY Justice Moninger.
They returned TO ST. Louis early In the
evening, and Gaines went to his nome ana
Miss Byrrs to hers. Later the young Ben
edict called at the Byrns home but nothing
was said about wedding having taken
place.
This Intelligence was reseI led until a
later hour, when Gaines had departed and
when the Byrns family had retired. They
were aroused by inuusitive reporters and
Mrs. Byrns answered the numerous raps
on the door. When told what was the er-
rand She had to awaken her daughter for
verification. Then. in the face of the tele
grams. the latter "'fessed up" and the cat
was out of the bag.
Mrs Byrns said In a bantering manner
that she was very angry. but only because
her daughter had not let her in on the
Cret. She had objection TO Mr. Gaines,
and a marriage between the two had her
thorough appreciation. Sergeant Byrns said
practically the same-that he did not
why they got married without letting her
parents know about II.