Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-25
LOVE TRIUMPHS.
J. B. Nelson and Miss Mar
garet Wall Secretly Married.
Parted by Her Parents, Nelson Pluck
lily Fights for His Wife.
Another Romance in the Ranks of New
York's Society.

| city was surprised, Saturday, by tn
announcement that Jules Blanc Mel
son, son of Mrs. Frederick Nelson {
100 5th avenue, and Miss Margare
Wall, daughter of Frank T. Wall {
1909 Madison avenue had been marie
in secret on Jan. 6. And close on tn
heels of this came the more surprisin
declaration by the bridegroom that hi
bride was being forcibly kept from hr
by her father.
Nelson is a brother Of Mrs. Reginal
G. Vanderbilt, and for several year
has been something of a figure in so
ciety both here and at Newport. H.
made no attempt to conceal his belle
that his bride was practically a prise
ner in her fathers house and spent al
of the day in bcsiesing the Wall home
ut 18th street and Madison avenue in
his efforts to set her free.
That he won the battle and over
came the attempt to separate him from
his bride was manifest at o'clock
Saturday, when the couple left the
Wall home together and hurried to
Jersey City, where they took the ia
train over the Pennsylvania for Phila-
delphia.
Their only baggage was gladstane
bag and the cab in which they wer..
driven to the West 23d street ferry was
not from Mr.. Wallis stable. 1t was
called to the house from public stand
Young Nelson drove to the Wall
house in haste shortly before noon.
He was in great excitement and to an
intimate friend he said he was in
trouble because of Il strange note he
had Just received from his bride He
ran up the steps of the Wall house and
asked to see Mrs. Nelson. He learned
tEat she was at home, but was told that
she could not see him at that time.
Nelson then drove away at top speed
for the downtown Office of Mr.. Wall
his unwilling father-in-Iaw. There he
WAS informed that MIR. Wall had setrt-
returned to the Madison avenue house
He arrived there about 2 o'clock. The
moment the door was opened he
stepped inside and announced to the
that he meant to sit in the hall
unit! his bride made her appearance.
Mr.. Wall had not yet arrived home
and an hour later Nelson left the
house in company with his brother-in-
ldN. bCNeTly hODlllSOl.
They drove away in search of the \
Obdurate father-in-law. Just before
Ii" stepped into the cab young Nelson
was asked for Il statement about his
and the trouble he was hav-
ms to get his bride. He showed evil
dcnce of the excitement from which he
vas suffering, and exclaimed, in SOME
heat.
Haven't l Il right to claim her? Is
that not within my rights? We have
been married, but now 1 am kept from
my wife. l mean to find he. before
night. If l don't there will be trouble
for some one" 49,
The father of the bride was the first
to make q statement with reference tC /
the secret marriage. This was given
out by clerk in his Office at IS South
street. The clerk explained that it had
been tclephoned to him my Mr.. Wal
from his house. The statement was as
follows:
Il Cid not know that Mr.. Nelson
intended marrying my daughter. l Dc
not approve Of the marriage. My
daughter is at present living in my
house"
All dDoUt tlit SttIc
marriage WIS refused at both the Wal
and Nelson homes. Reporters were in
formed that the families mad nothing
whatever to say concerning it. They
declined even to say where the mar
ria s. had taken place or who had per
formed the ceremony.
by reference to the records kept by
the health department it was found
that Nelson and Miss Wall had beer
married by FIR. Quinn Of the Churci
af St Ignatius Loyola, at Sith street
and Park avenue.
Fr. Quinn refused to say anything
y bout the wedding. He would not say
where it had occurred, but since Mis-;
Wall is a PrOto slant and Mr.. Nelson
Il Catholic. it is supposed that the
ceremony was performed in the rectory
ard not in the church proper.
Nelson was seen in the afternoon
lust before he entered the Wall houss
for his final conference, in which he
appears to have come out the victor.
He seemed greatly perturbed over the
affair, and declared he would never
give 10 his bride. He showed the note
he had received from her and said he
knew she had not written II OIL ner
own free will. The note read:
Il have made up my mind never to
see YOU again or live with you.
DAISY WALL"
Mr.. Nelson returned the note to his
pocket and then said:
Miss Wall and 1 had been engaged
for some time and at last decided to
get married. Our families were bitter
" opposed to the engagement from tho
first. When we saw no hope of getting
their consent we were married
secretly on Jan. 6. FIR. Quinn of tn
Church of st. Ignatius Loyoia agree
10 perform the ceremony. My wifi
continued to live at her fathers home
and saw her every day or two there
No one knew anything of our marr,ar'
until l told my mother of it few
days ago.
MY mother then decided that it wa
best that Mr.. Wall should be informed o
the facts, and she disclosed all to him
last Monday. He grew violently angr.
over the news, and I feel that he mus
have brought some pressure on Marguer
ito IN induce her tn write the note chr