Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-07
CHILD ELOPERS
PRE-EMPT FLAT
THEN BEGINS FOURTH RE-
MARKABLE HONEYMOON
The Boy Is Fourteen, the Girl Year
Less-How They Procure and
Cook Meals in Their
Castle

Special TO The Herald.
NEW YORK, Nov 6.-"Lottie is
game kid Gee! We didn't have moth
in ter eat, see and she didn't have no
trousseau. But we eloped all right The
eloping wasn't so bad-it was the COM
ing home that hurt!"
That is how Albert Spizuoco, IA years
old son of a barber at No. 1850 Am
sterdam avenue, characterized MS
fourth elopment with pretty red
checked Charlotte Francis, daughter of
janitor at No. 500 West One Hndred
and Fortieth street. The girl is year
younger than he. Albert has soul
for heroism and valor, and Charlotte
who, though she Is little, is rather
plump and womanly-has q heart for
romance.
EARLY this week they eloped for the
fourth time. They looked about for
an apartment in which to build their
dove cote. They hadn't any money,
but that isn't always a deterrent in
New York, and so they went to a high
priced neighborhood. From the Win
dow of a house in West One Hundred
and Thirty-fifth street, which they en-
tered when the janitor was out, they
saw across the roofs a vacant fiat.
over the roofs they went and entered.
1t was a $95 a month fiat, but Albert
didn't think it was any too good for
his sweetheart What followed Albert
told in the children's court yesterday
oldest of Honeymoons
1--WE sits there gettin' hungry" he
said, when she sees a butcher wagon
stoppin' outside. We're on the fourth
floor. We hears the dummy walter be-
gin to rumble. Wait she says. She
hollers down the dummy and orders
m \, y hol
change for 81. Please she says, and
quick UP comes $1.S0, and we beat 1t
over the roof into another empty fiat.
"After a while we goes back. Dis
$95 fiat has a swell gas stove, so | runs
down and gets a nice steak. When l
come back Lottie's found an old Ice
pick and she spears the meat and cooks
me catching the juice in my hand
look where it's burned. Oh, 1 won't
have no more times like that"
After they had been living in the
vacant fiat, as described by Albert, for
a day or two, Mrs. Francis met her
daughter on the street and promptly
took her to the children's court Albert.
who had been in court before for rob-
bling a store of SIS worth of cigars on
the occasion of their second elopement,
was also rounded up.
1t was in his fathers barber shop
that the romance latent in Albert's
soul was first stirred. He began to
read the yellow magazines put there
for the amusement of the customers.
From them he got the idea that the
days of knight errantry were not past.
He resolved to quit school and go to
work that he might the sooner win the
hand of plump Charlotte. His father
in a weak moment allowed him to go
to work for the milk concern of the
neighborhood, and every morning after
that Charlotte found a bottle of cream
at the basement door, with love let
ter from Albert under 1t.
Their Other Elopements
On August 28 the company had taken
so much money out of Albert's pay for
broken bottles" for which he could
not account that he got discouraged
and asked Charlotte what to do. They
walked down Riverside drive to talk
it over, and kept on walking till they
were lost and night overlook them.
They were gone two days, and were
sent home by the police of Fort Lee,
who found them sitting in Palisade
park holding hands at O'Clock in the
morning.
They promised never to do it again,
and were forgiven.
Seven days later, on September 4. the
loVerS were urdWn TO Inelr OLD trySt-
ing place in Riverside park, and
straightaway the old desire to wander
off took possession of them. AS the
unpoetic sun came up over Blackwell 8
island next morning they were found
shivering on a doorstep by a sleepy
cop and taken home.
When, on October Is, Mrs. Francis
stepped shyly into the police station
and reported the third elopement the
police were not surprised and had a
pretty clear idea of how to find the
couple. Look for lonely pair of kids
sitting on doorstep" the order read.
But the lovers We're returned from
Philadelphia.