Evening journal., 1903-02-28
LAW TORE APART
welded COUPLE
Elopement With Geraldine
L. Beloe Sends Richard
Morris to Jails
MOTHER OBJECTED TO GROOM
She Did Not Like Him Because He
Was a Barber, and Finding the cou.
pie Living Together, Had the Hus.
band Arrested.
band Arrested.

- -N"a io9etneFf Tao tne nus
band Arrested.
Married at the age of Is: separated
from her youthful husband while they
We're on their wedding tour" brought
back to her luxurious home by force:
confined in convent. from which she
escaped to be with her bridegroom In
his hour OF adversity; pilloried by her
own choice in courtroom as the wife
of a prisoner and the daughter of a
weeping, richly-dressed complainant
all this and more has bafallen Mrs.
Richard M. Morris, in THE forty days
that have elapsed since she was Ger
aldine Beloe. of this city.
Richard Morris. local barber, who
says he will be % his next birthday
was sentenced by Judge Amdenried yes
terday in Philadelphia to pay fine OF
800 and TO undergo an Imprisonment
of four months for periuring himself
before Goebel. the marriage license
clerk in Philadelphia in order TO get
a license to marry Miss Beloe He de-
cared that she was q years old.
But the law cannot govern the affec-
tions, and. altogether Mrs. Sarah c. Be
loe mother of the bride, was victori-
GUS in the court, she was bitterly hui
inflated to find on leaving the court
room that the purpose of the legal bat
the had failed
When the prisoner gulping with
shame and grief, was being led back 10
the cellroom, his gir'l-wife at his side.
Mrs. Beloe came running after her
Geraldine Geraldinel" she called.
The girl did not even turn her head
or slacken her pace. Mrs Beloe caught
her by the arm.
clung to Her Husband
'I.et me gol" shrielked tho daughter.
breaking away and running down the
lcoIridoi' Il don't want C0 speak 70
you. and I'll never go hack to YOU
a young man in the office Of VIII
liam w Smithers, who, together with
Henry G. Conrad, of this city. repre-
sented Morris. hurried after Mrs. Nor
ris and took her 10 Mr.. Smithens Of
flee. She Insisted upon riding out to
Hoimesburg with the prisoner and she
bade him a weeping farewell at the
lprison gate.
! The Beloes had a handsome home at
Centre Moriches. Long Island. but in
1900 Mrs Beloe and her daughter came
here, and lived at NO. 92t Adams
street. Mrs BelOe filed suit for divorce
from her husband She was defeated
and another action is now pending.
i About year ago Geraldine met
Richard Morris and the boy and air
fell in love. When Mrs. BelOe heard oE
it she was shocked.
Geraldine disappeared January and
Mrs. Beloe learned that Morris was also
missing from the barber shop Of his
brothers. where he was employed.
Detectives were put on the trail. and
s Chief Black when TO Philadelphia Jan
q uahy Is. and in company with central
Office detective went TO a house I'm Vine
street above Thirteenth where the
youthful bride and bridegroom were
spending their honeymoon. 1Ir and
J. Mrs. Morris were taken back to VIII.
b mington by the Chief Of Police.
s Taken to Convent.
Mrs Beloe's first precaution WAS tC
take her daughter to a convent in New
York. Then she went back to Phila.
O delrhia to institute proceedings against
Morris. There were three warrants
swCre cut fer him. but the one on
e which he was tried charged perjury
4 ExtaditiOn papers were issued and the
e IyOung barber was sent to that city.
Despite the restrictions placed upon
her at the convent Mrs. Morris heard
of her husbands arrest She arrived al
the Broad Street Station at 1896
Il O'clock yesterday morning and went tc
II Mr.. Smithers' Office. The lawyer took
Il her into the cell-room to see Morris, and
J. there was joyful meeting.
z Mrs. Beloe was evidently surprised
! when her daughter walked into couri
with the prisoner and took her seat by
his side Yearningly the mother gazee
at her. but the daughter never once
glanced at the elder wOman's face Mrs
+ Morris did not shed a tear. and az in
+ tervals would smile encouragement t.
It her husband
n Mr.. Smithers called Charles II
Blaine, president Of City Council; Harr.
; NJ Lowe. president of the local Boar'
of Health, and the Rev. II. s. Dulany
pastor of Asbury Methodist Episcopa
Church. TO testify. concerning the goos
character OF Morris. They all assertel
that they had never known him as any
+ thing else but a model boy.
n Bridegroom Is Sentenced.
n Assistant District Attorney Smyth
IS who prosecuted the case. declared tina
there were details in the case whiet
he did not care to bring into court un
less 1t were necessary. He asked tha
sentence be imposed
Is '4The girl and the mother both have
e made a mistake" said Judge Auden
T. ried. "but the restrictions upon mar
riage were put there for the purpos'
of protecting girls from the wiles o
l. men.
: q sentence YOU to pay fine Of Si0l
and Imprisonment OF four months"