The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-09
BRIDEGROOM IS
 IN COUNTY JAIL RawIinson Locked Up for Mar
 rying Young Girl
FATHER OF GIRL ANGRY
Mss Pate, Who Married Rawlinsoni Told the Groom She Was 1S, But Policeman Was Informed
 She Was Not IS.

Lee W. Rawlinson is in the county jail on a charge of abduction. The warrant for his arrest was sworn out hy c. D.. Pate, the father of Miss Annie Fate. Mr. Pate and his family live at Avcndale.
 Rawlinson and Miss Annie Pate were married in Birmingham Saturday night without the consent of the brides par ents. When the father heard hls daush- ter had married he was angry and at once issued warrant for Rawlinson's arrest, claiming that his daughter had not reached her 18th year.
 Policeman Jackson was detailed to try to find the couple. He went to the sash and door department of the Moore K Handley Hardware company yesterday morning and Rawlinson was found em- ployed at his work there. He was ar rested and taken to police headquarters.
 Rawlinson told the officers he was boarding at a residence on Third avenue east of Twenty-third street. MT. Pate was at the police station and went with Policeman H. L. Murphy to the boarding house The young lady was there She accompanied her father and the officer to police headquarters and when she was taken to the office of the chief of police found her husband sitting there.
 Mir Pate was unrelentlng He said he would not forgive them and demanded that Rawlinson be kept in jail and that his daughter go home.
 Rawllnson Pleaded.
 Datn for forgiveness. He cried little and his young wife also burst into tears. Tears and entreaties, however had no effect on the parent and nothing the couple could do or did do to persuade him to forgive them availed. For an hour they discussed the matter and finally Rawlinson was locked up in the county jail and his wife went home with her father.
 Rawlinson said last night that he would be able to make the required S2OO bond this morning. In discussing the matter he said:
 'I am sorry the old folks have kicked up such a row over our marriage.
 My wife and I were married Saturday night I knew it would be of no use to ask her father to give his consent, so late Saturday afternoon she met me. We got on a car and came to Birmingham, where the ceremony was performed by a min ister
 Girl Said She Was 19.
 'I told them at the probate office thai I the girl was IS years old, ard I have nc reason to doubt she Is that age. She told .to nd I her word for it.
 'I got a note a few minutes ago from a friend of mine and he said when he last saw my wife she was walking be- tween her father and some one else, and he was taking her to his home against her will. I don't like this. She is my wife and he ought to be reconciled.
 After we were married Saturday night telephoned to the girls mother. She said she would forgive us and everything was all right Now her father comes along and has me put in jail. I can't sec that have done anything wrong. l have mar ried the girl; I love her, and she Is my wife"
 Denies Certain Reports.
 Rawlnson was asked if there was any truth In the report that before meeting him Miss Pate went to the house of a friend and secured other clothes to make her appear older than she really was. He was told that one account of the run away was to the effect that she was fixed up'' by a friend, had on a long dress, a large hat, and her hair arranged to make her look older. Rawinson denied this, saying: "No. she didn't. She has plenty of clothes and didn't have to bor- row any from other people. She came di- rectly from her home to where l was and we ran off together"
 It was reported yesterday that Miss Pate told her parents she was going to take tea with friend Saturday night and her parents suspected nothing until they heard of the marriage. Since then the po- lice had been on the lookout for them.
 The warrant was sworn out before l. H. Benners, justice of the peace, but date for the preliminary trial has not been set.
 Policeman Murphy said last night that he asked Rawlinson if he had not been married before, and that he said he had. but that he had secured a divorce.
 A policeman stated last night that Mir Pate said his daughter would be thirteen