Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
BABIES ELOPE
ON SEVEN CEN IS
ALBERT AND CHARLOTTE GOT
CLEAR OVER TO JERSEY
Nearly Starved on a Diet Of Apples.
Boy Had Left Love Notes IN
the MIX Bottles He
Delivered

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Sept. s,-Footsore,
hungry and tired, Albert spIzuoco, IA
years old, and Charlotte Francis, 10,
arrived home from an elopement last
night.
"It was not honeymoon" explained
Charlotte. "for we were not married;
but 1t was an elopement all right-and
such an elopement. Wen never do 1t
again."
The little community of neighborhood
friends around One Hundred and For
tieth street and Amsterdam avenue was
shocked Tuesday night when it was
whispered at II o'clock that Albert Spi-
zuoco, son of barber living at 1850
Amsterdam avenue, and Charlotte
Francis, daughter of ianitor at 800
West One Hundred and Fortieth street.
had eloped.
From Tuesday night to yesterday
afternoon their parents and the police
were looking for them. Then the police
of Edgewater, N. J., telephoned to the
13-year-old girls mother to come over
and get them.
"You see," said Charlotte last night
as she bathed mosquito bites on her
face and arms and tried to keep awake
long enough to tell the story, 81 amt
really had no sleep for two nights. AL
bert and 1 have been sweethearts for
months. He lost his job with the Shef-
field Arms milk folks because he gave
us so much milk. They took it out of
his pay. He left us an extra bottle Of
10 In 1rof
the milk and got the letter every day.
Tuesday night 1 met him on the
street, and he seemed so discouraged
because he lost his job 1 asked him to
walk with me. First thing we knew
we had gone down Riverside drive to
Eighty-fourth streets, and it was so
late we were afraid to go home. Then
we decided to elope.
An Excursion on Seven Gents
I'VE wasn't going to be married, only
Just go off and have good time seeing
the country for a. week. He had b
cents and l had 2 cents We walked
across to Third avenue and down to
s. Fifty-fourth street, where we sat down
and went to sleep in doorway. AT 2
o'clock a policeman awoke us and
knocked our heads together
"Gwan home wild ye kids says he.
down to visit the folks In the house,
but were locked out. He rang up the
janitor and he let us in but, of course,
we only went up two flights and came
down and told the policeman that the
fiat was locked up. Then go home
says he. Are you brother and sister,
Yes says Albert, but we have no
carfare.'
o'Then walk
1--WE walked around till 5 o'clock,
stopped every now and then by a
policeman. We told the cops that we
had been to party. Finally we got to
Ninety-sixth street and Third avenue,
where Albert knew some folks, and we
went into the hallway and went to
sleep. In the morning the boy Albert
knew woke us up and gave us carfare
home. Instead of going home-for we
didn't dare to-we walked through Cen
trail park and to One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street.
1--WE took the Fort Lee ferry to Jer-
sey and tried to get something to eat
at about hundred farmhouSes. They
gave us apples and pears. We were
awfully hungry. That night we sat in
Palisades park all night. 1t was
awfully lonesome and the mosquitoes
nearly ate us up.
Awful Possibilities
"Isnt it terrible to he out of work
and have no home?' says Albert, lean
ing against a tree. I wish I was at
home says ]. But Albert braced up
and said he'd get work and take care Of
me and be father to me.
Wouldn't it be awful 1 said II
we were really married and you out Of
work and no home"
"'And nothing to eat says he.
"fA nd the children crVinp for broad '
says I. Then Albert looked down at the
Hudson so black and still and sighed
Just then a policeman came up and
locked hard at us and began to question
us. / was asleep before he was through
and pretty soon Albert woke me up and
told me that we must go to the station
for the rest of the night. I was glad.
We were still saying we were brother
and sister.
: I'm the police station Albert winked
at me to tell the truth and 1 told ALL
When those men heard that we hadn't
had anything to eat for two days they
fell over each other to get us ham and
eggs and tea. In court 1 told my
mothers telephone address and in an
hour mother and Mr.. Spizuoco were
there after us.
"'Did my boy entice you away from
home?' asked Mr.. Spizuoco, with a
thunder cloud on his face. 1 remem-
bered what was probably coming to
Albert and said:
mo, entlced him away And Mr..
Spizuoco actually laughed-but Albert
didn't I hope that he doesn't catch
it very hard. We have promised not to
speak to each other again."
my girl is too big to spank" said
Mrs. Francis. Il guess the mosquitoes
punished her enough"
Mr.. Spizuoco said nothing.
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