Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-12-25
Morris 4. Harrington and Miss
Daisy B. Rooms EIOped
to This City.
LEFT AN EXPECTANT BRIDEGROOM
He Was Waiting in PhiIadeI-
phia, Where He Had Ar
ranged to Marry Miss
Koons Last Night
Pursued by Her
Mother.

Tuesday evening at 6 O'Clock a counle
giving their names as Miss Daisy b..
Koons and Morris A. Harrington, both
OF Philadelphia, the latter a clerk IN
the jewelry department Of Wsnamakers
store, came TO this city and wen. To the
office of Magistrate Francis IS. Bsadsey
and procured q marriage license giving
! their ages as 20 and q yeafs. res:ect-
lively. After obtaining tfe license .hey
proceeded TO the parsonage of Haio1 a.
| u. Church, sos Washington street, sud
were married by Rev r. Ii. ADAMS,
ID. d., the pastor of the church.
Yesterday a woman came to this
4 city from Philadelphia and went srovnc
l to all the magistrates Offices inausfing
whether her daughter, Miss liessis
/ koons, had been there to get carriage
! license The Last Office she visited y as
Magistrate Bradley's and there she vas
told that her daughter ard man by
the name of Morris a. Harrington we're
there Tuesday night and had secured q
marriage license and afterward went to
Union parsonage to be married.
Mrs. Rooms then went to Pastor
Adams house and there she was told
] by Dr. Adams that he had married the
couple Tuesday night at G.30 o'clock.
Mrs. hoonB then told MIR. A dams that
another man and that the Wedding was
20 haze taken place yesterday at Ter
house. She said the reception had been
arraigned for, the guests invitad an5B
everything liked for the affair Il
place yesterday. She said sht
not know what induced her dan
TO act the way she did, as the maj
was to marry yesterday was upri
honorable, genial and Industrious.
is machinist and makes good waa
lie does not reside in Philadelphia, b
in a neighboring city. Mrs. Koons hi
terly condemned her daughter for be
actions and said the girls father Is
Just as strongly opposed to her
daughters conduct as she is.
She said her daughter left her house
TUESDAY morning early and when she Z
did not return at noon shs suspected
something was wrong and started out
to see If she could locate her She
knew that her daughter thought
great deal of Mr. Harrington, SO she
thought she would go to where he was
employed and see il he WAS at work.
When she got to the store where he is
employed she inquired for him and
found that he had left there few hours
before and would not be back any more
that day. Mrs Koons then proceeded to
this city, thinking the couple might
have met and come here. ha-4r
When DR.. Adams fwas seen yester,
day by a reporter OF The Gazette
about the matter he said when the
couple came to his residence he did not
suspect that anything was wrong. ard
as they had the license, and said tl,ov
were OF age, he married them. Xftxn q
they left his house they did nat aar
where they were going. In Speaking
about the mother coming to his rosi1
dence yesterday he said he meyer in
all his life heard mother denounce
her daughter ard the man sho rnarriod
as Mrs Koons did. He tried to show
to her that it was not right to say tho
things she did about her own daughter
and the man she rried but the
woman would not hear to any plea Mr.
Adams would make. so he had to lei
her keep on talking.
She also told him that she had
told the manager of the store whore
Harrington was employed about
what she thought her daughter s.d
Harrington were going to do, and =
she expects when Harrington goes hack
to work he will be asked by the
manager il what the woman suspected
was true. What will result sho does
not know.
When Mrs. Koons left she said she
vas going back to where Harrington il
Employed and tell the manager of the
department..