Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-11
A STRANDED BRIDEGROOM.
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 Tn fearful accents a stranded bride groom told at the Waldorf Astoria yes
 terday how he had e1oped with the l daughter of a, man of millions last De
 cember and married her, but kept the
 affair a secret until her graduation on
 June Ii, when he was robbed in ho-
 tel at Erie, Pa, and in trying to re-
 cover his money his father -in-law was l appraised of the whole affair
 I Since then the bridegroom has been | here vainly trying to reach his wife, ] but her father has kept her secluded, and she does not know where her hus- band is.
 The bridegroom is Nelson Delmage,
 only son of Arthur Albert Delmage, retired oil man of Cleveland, O, and
 grandson of Albert Delmage, for many years high commissioner of customs at T Montreal He is 27 years old and was I divorced from his first wife few sI months ago.
 The bride is Ida Susan Koehler, sec ond daughter of Jackson Koehler of Erie, Pa. He has handsome country .l place stocked with deer, a steam yacht, automobiles and horses galore. His eldest daughter, Florence, was recently graduated from a fashionable school , i.'Ida is stunning girl-ta1l, dark and handsome. We met in the sum- , mer of 1900 at Conneaut Harbor, 'l where she and her sister aSld a chap . eron were spending the summer. Dur 'l ing a trip to Buffalo with a gay party
 we fell desperately in love. Last
 Easter I visited the family at Erie and was cordially received.
 ssLast December, the 11th, we con cluded we could not wait any longer
 and I met her at Erie and we took a
 train to Dunkirk, N. Y, only short ! distance away. It is not necessary to get a marriage license in this state,
 and we had to hurry, that is why we came to Dunkirk. A Baptist minister,
 whose name forget, married us and we returned to Erie. Only her sister, f Florence. was taken into our conf dence, and she really kept the secret admirably, if she is a woman. a On June Il the graduation exercises I at Ida's school were to be held at Erie
 and, of course, I was on hand. We F were to go away on our wedding trip
 right after the graduation reception at her home The graduation came off r all right. I went to Cleveland and got
 $500 from my father to pay part of the : expenses of the honeymoon, and hust-
 led back to Erie As got off the train : I met several we'll dressed young men. , To make. a long story short, when l
 came to the next morning at hotel : in Erie, remembered being in poker f game or something of the sort, but l could not find cent of my money. Here comes the saddest part of it :, all. went to the mayor of Erie and told him I had been robbed by sharp . CTS and asked if the detectives could f not run them down and get back at I least a part of the money. He put his chief of police on the track, but, as ill : luck would have it, the mayors chief I clerk is nephew of my father-in-l law f and he had to telephone to him that his
 son-in-law had been done out of all n his money by gamblers and left strand ed. Father-in-law started for the ho- / tel, saving his informant must be i. crazy. A kind friend woke me up and
 told ne had better git as father
 in-law had angrily said he had no son. 2 in-law tlxat he knew of and was going
 to investigate.
 q jumped on the Empire State ex- u press and came to New York post . haste My trunks are still at the ho. :, tel in Erie. I have not been able to Y communicate with my wife. My \ father-in-law won't answer my tele- < grams and my parents think we are of aa a somewhere at Newport or Narragan.
 sett on our wedding tour. I can't get
 any more cash from them, and here I am.'
 7 The bride is said to be only IS, how. {, ever, according to her friends in Erie f Delmage says she knows of his former : wedding, and of his efforts to get di , vorce, and then his letting his wife get e one on the ground of assertion He [ says he and his fatherin-law were ,. good friends up to the moment the V escapade with the card sharps was : made public. Since then, on account f of the divorce, MT Koehler has refus ,a ed him both his wife and the freedom