The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-24
SONS HELD BOY STEPFATHER
OHIO SExAGENARlAN BRIDE
CAUSES WAR ON HER MOTH
ER-lN-LAW.
Young Lad Married to Widow Goes to
Mother Because Breakfast Was
Not Ready.

CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 24.-Making
young husband go without his
breakfast and so wounding his feelings
him thither with two stalwart sons
and fOrcibly removing him from the
maternal wing, then barricading her
self in her own home with her youth
full spouse and the sturdy sons, is the
performance in which Mrs. Charles
Eschenbrenner, 60 years old, Of Cor
ryville, is assigned to the stellar role
by her mother-in-law Mrs. Eschen
brenner, who is her junior, and as
an outcome of which litigation is
threatened by the parent Of the juve-
nile benedict.
Woos and Wins.
1t is a tangled snarl that requires
close attention in the travelling. Chas.
Eschenbrenner is 20 years old, and un-
til he met Mrs. Jackman always did
whatever his mamma asked him to do.
Eschenbrenner's filial obedience
wavered for the first time when he
gazed on the sexagenarian charms of
Mrs. Jackman. The fact that the fair
widow had $15O,0O0 had nothing to
do with his admiration, and there was
no thought of creature comforts when,
after a fortnight's acquaintance, he
wooed and won the widow. That was
a month ago.
Goes Home to Mamma.
All went merrily until Sunday
morning, when Eschenbrenner found
there was no breakfast on the table.
He had gone supperless the night be-
fore, but he attributed that to an
oversight When the forgetfulness
was repeated, however, he felt it was
time to assert himself. So he went
home to his mother.
Mrs. Charles Eschenbrenner COM
planned of his flight to her sons,
Charles and Robert Jackman, both of
whom are older than her husband,
and today they accompanied her to
the home of Mamma inlaw Eschen-
brenner and demanded the young
husband. Mrs. Eschenbrenner, the
mother, defied Mrs. Eschenbrenner the
WIFE Her Charlie should not leave
her roof, she intimates, until he was
of geographically if the dear boy
was to go without breakfast. When
Mrs. Charles Eschenbrenner and the
Jackman boys insisted on entering
the house the mamma in law seized
a shotgun with courage she might not
have shown had it been loaded and
dared the visitors to cross the thresh-
old.
Besiegers Break Door.
1t is related by her the beseigers
broke down her door and rushed
into her home One of the Jackmans,
she alleges, seized the gun, the other
threw the boy benedict over his
shoulder, and the triumphant trio de-
| parted with all the honors of war,
| leaving Mrs. Ehchenbrenner, the
| mother, to mourn her loss.
| Bluecoats, to whom the bereaved
mother complained of the loss of her
son fastened to the home of Mrs.
Charles Eschenbrenner, in Walker
street, to inquire into the situation
| They were amazed to find the door
| barricaded as if to resist a Port Ar
thur assault, and Mrs. Eschenbrenner,
the wife, ordered them off her prem
ises. They did not force an entrance
and at last accounts the breakfast
less benedict still was in the custody
of his wife and stepsons.
His fond mamma, however, said to-
day she would apply for a warrant
and would fight for possession of he1
son, if she had to go to every court
| in the state.