Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
SOME ODD ELoPEMENTs.
Woman Runs Away With Living
Skeleton-Fat Mans Experience.

From the London Tit-Bts.
A freak known as Princess Anetta. pos
sesslng neither arms nor legs until lately
on exhibition in Geneva, has lust eloped
with young German named Starker.
whom she first met while on show In the
Swiss town. Love did not at first run
smoothly with the couple by reason of the
uncompromising attitude of the lady's i'm
pressario against whom the resourceful
lover lodged complaint of Entertainment
An arrest followed and the young man,
Selling his opportunity, bore off his inamo-
rata to church. where the ceremony. dur
ing which the limbless bride was held in
the bridegroom's arms was duly per-
formed.
A few years ago a living skeleton who
was ON view In the Prater, at Vienna was
round missing. The proprietor OF the show
furious at his loss, at once set about track
ing the vanished freak who certainly by
reason of his bodily weakness could not
OF his own unafded efforts have proceeded
tar After two hours quest he came up
with the skeleton being wheeled along in a
barrow by stout country woman who for
the consideration of a few forms treacher-
ousy surrendered her emaciated lover.
The Belgian capital was the scene of q
frustrated elopement when colossus
named Servan managed to start on his
flight with the daughter of Brussels doc
tor. but ere the station was reached the
excessive -avoirdupois, and he and his
iancee subsidized into the road greatly to
the delight of the onlookers, whose merri-
ment was in no wise lessened by the ar
rival of the would-be brides father. who
without more ado proceeded to belabor the
PROSTATE carcass of the fat lover. Then,
his strength and anger being exhausted, he
led his daughter home.
Another man mountain, in the person OF
Herr Gartner. whose forty-five stone kept
his employer in easy circumstances, evoked
the love of q well-to-do widow who re-
solved to make him her second mate.
Everything went well; the absence of his
employer was for brief spell assured and
with much putting and blowing Herr Cart
ner tottered to the carriage that was wait
Ing to bear him away to freedom and we'd
lock- Alasi His fiancee had not taken his
size into calculation; he could by no means
pass through the carriage door His and
her utmost efforts were in vain and at
last. utterly exhausted. he staggered back
TO the house, whence he never again
emerged.
Marriage, however, resulted from the
elopement of a German dwarf named
Weber. who was mannikin in the show
line. with the daughter of a rich Berlin
tradesman. who naturally viewed with high
disfavor his daughters prediction for the
understood freak. A strict watch was kept
on her movements, but all vigilance was
rendered futile by the cunning of the pig
my. who, disguised as baby, was wheeled
in perambulator to an appointed tryst
where he was handed over to his BRIDE
who taking him In her arms, carried him
off to the church and wedloek almost under
the eyes of her relatives
The widow of a substantial Warsaw
tradesman fell in love with living skele-
ton on exhibition at a booth, and induced
him to visit her at her house. Here she de-
clared her passion. and upon its meeting
with but cold response she seized the
wretched freak and. having gagged him,
placed him in large box, procured to meet
the emergency inclosed wherein she had
him rapidly driven to villa owned by her
In the suburbs, and there kept him pris-
oner until he agreed to her proposal