The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-06
RESENTED ROD ON LADY LOVE.
\ Swain Who Fought the Man Whom
he Had Chosen for PaDa-in-Iaw

This is a tale of young love that
merged into war. An irate parent a
tempestuous swain a girl who braVed
the opposition of her father for the
man who Woed her.
setting for a tragedy that has
landed in magistrates court, while
the girl is crying over the spilled cup
of her romance and the swain is
charged with assault with Il deadly
weapon, and the parent is nursing a
head that has on it a lump that was
raised by a rock in the hands of his
WOuld-bc son-in-iaw
The principals are: The swain.
James Il. Brannan. aged %; the dam
sci, Annie Pool, aged Is; and the par
ent, w. ID. Pool, aged 40, of whom
the swain and the parent work for a
living in the Raleigh mills.
The case, which came up before JUS
tice NJ. b. Barbee on warrant for Bran
nan yesterday was removed to the
court of Justice G. A. Separk and, if
matters are not in the meantime ar
ranged to meet the desires of youth
full love, the hearing will be had be-
fore the latter on August 9th.
In the meantime, these facts. pro-
sale in their old time "heart interest
but unusual in their action, are given
as they could be CLEANED before the
testimony be in.
1t seems that Brannan loves Annie,
the pretty daughter of G. ID. Pool;
and that Annie is not averse to the at
tentiOnS of Brannan; and that father
Pool, for reasons not given objects to
the prospect of being father-inlaW to
Brannan.
Therefore, after Mr. Pool hFd for
hidden his home to Brannan and for
hidden Brannan to his daughter, he
was incensed as parents have been
for years without number, when he
found that Love had found way for
meetings despite his inhibition SO in
censed was he, in fact. that love and
contemplated marriage to the con-
trary Mr.. Pool refused to consider his
daughter a woman and treated her as
IA child-in quite the old-fashloned,
unromantic and non-persuaSive way.
Mr.. Pool is Il man with respect for
traditions and in this instance he did
not fail to remember the maxim that
egatiVely-With uplifting the
child by plying the rod.
But Mr. Brannan looked out of other
than parental eyes; and when he
heard, the wrath that had already
terminated in his soul, was fresh
kindled against the man VINO is the
sire of his love. In fact so the story
goes. Mr. Brannan con1ided in. few
friends that he was man or pas
sion as we'll as a squire of DANES
and the sequel showed that he was
a prophet.
Thus it was that matters dr!tted to
a general engagement on MONDAY
evening last Diplomacy exhausted
war was declared.
AS always there are two SIDES TO
every rupture, but that which the
grapevine telegraph" brings to TINS
office is that Mr.. Brannan is a stfale-
gist as we'll as knight and warrior
When the whistle blew at Inc Nal
eigh mills and the two men quit WORK.
the swain approached the father on
the flank. There was an instant
scuffle and the father went down aIiu
While the dust flew and the two men
struggled in the fight, t>Sfe was seer
the rising and the falling mana %
| Launcelot armed with an unpoetlc
| rock which fell again and again on
and in the neighborhood OF the OF
| Tending parental head.
There were further hostllltles tna'
resulted in no damage, Mr.. Brailhoi1
| and Mr.. Pool both being helu pS
peace-m makers from whom the IdlteI
| is said to have broken away anu
| hurled a rock at his asSaliant'
| Pending the result of the tflal
Messrs Pool and Brannan are
| still distant and the latter mas Iht
satisfaction of knowing in the hledIi-
time that his daughter is too young tC
we'd