The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
SOME ODD ELOPEMENTS.
Woman Runs Away With Living SkeletOn
Fat Man Unhappy Experience.

A freak known as Princess Anetta
possessing neither arms nor legs, until
lately on exhibition in Geneva, has Just
eloped with a young German named Starker,
whom she first met while on show in the
Swiss town, says London Ti-Bits.
Love did not at first run smoothly with the
couple by reason of the uncompromising
attitude of the lady's impresario, against
whom the resourceful lover lodged a COM
PLANT of i'll treatment. An arrest followed
and the young man, Selling his opportunity,
bore of his inamorata to church, where the
ceremony, during which the limbless bride
was held in the briGegroom's arms, was
duly performed.
A few years ago a living skeleton who
was on view in the Prater, at Vienna, was
found missin G. The proprietor Of the
show, furious at his loss, at orce set about
tracking the vanished fr-ak, who cer a 'nlv,
by. reason of his ho6ily weakness, could
not OF his own unaided efforts have pro-
ceeded far. After two hours quest he came
up with the skeleton being wheeled along
In a barrow by a stout country woman,
who for the consideration of a few forms
treacherously surrendered her emaciated
over.
The Belgian capital was the scene of a
frustrated elopement when a colossus
named Servan mana red to start on his
flight with the daughter of a Brussels doc
tor, but ere the station was reached the
springs of the facre gave way beneath his
excessive ~avoirdupois, and he and his
fancee spbsided into the road, greatly,to
the delight of the onlookers, whose merri-
ment was in nc wise lessened by the arrival
of the would-be brides father, who with
out 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-fve stone
kept his employer in easy circumstances,
evoked the love Of a we'll to do widow,
who resolved to ma k him her second
mate. Everything went well; the absence
of his employer was for n brief spell as
sured, and with much putting and blowing
Herr Gartner tottered to the carrie ge that
and wedlock. Alas! His fancee had not
taken his size into calculations; he could by
no mears pass through the carria &c door.
His and her utmost efforts were in vain,
and at last, utterly exhausted, he sta ggered
back to the house, whence he never again
emerged.
Maria &c, however, resulted from the
elopement OF a German dwarf named
Weber, who was a mannikin in the show
line, with the daughter of a rich Berlin
tra desmsn, who naturally viewed with
high disfavor his daughters prediction
for the andersized freak. A strict watch
was KEPT on her movements, hNt all vigi-
lance was rendered futile by the cunning
oil tne pyRlny, "nO' ClhFulteu as Il DdDy,
WIS wheeled in a perambulator to an APP
PORTED tryst, where he WIS handed over
to his bride, who. Il kirg him in her arms,
carr led him off to the church and wedlock
almost under the eyes Of her relatives.
The widow Of a substantial Warsaw
trades-nan fell in love with a living skeleton
on exhibition AZ a booth, and induced him
TO visit her at her house. Here she de-
clared her passion, and upon its meetin
with but cold response she seized the
wretched freak and, having ga gged him,
placed him in a large box, procured to
meet the emergency, enclosed wherein she
by her in the suburbs, and there kept him
prisoner until he agreed to her proposal.