River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-03

can do in your case If can do any.
thing to punish you, you may be sure
will do it.'
Next day DR.. English had Clark
Breckenridge, his new son-in-law, ar
rested on charge of falsely swearing
to his daughters age. Then he sent
messenger to West Virginia to look up
the facts and find out the law of the
state regarding the marriage of mi
nors. He was going to have 1t an
nulled, il it were possible.
Begin Legal Proceedings.
Clark Breckenridge sued out writ
OF habeas corpus, in turn, to regain
possession of his bride, getting out
on bail on the perjury charge. The
town took sides; it was going to be a
fight to a finish, whether or not a
father might forbid the marriage of a
15-year-old daughter, and whether or
not husband, after the marriage,
could not take his bride from her
father and bring her to his home.
The English family threatened all
sorts of punishment for the bride
groom; the Breckenridge family prom
ised all sorts of reprisals. Meanwhile
the POOR little bride, deprived of her
husband of an hour, was weeping
away at home as if her heart would
break
And that was the final straw that
broke thescamel's back of the fathers
hitherto unrelenting resolution. DR..
English couldn't bear to see his pretty
little daughter weeping all the time
and begging to be allowed to see her
young husband.
''Do you really love him?" demanded
the doctor, when he found that i'm
prisonment at home was doing not a
bit OF good. more than anything in
the world: sobbed the girl. ooh,
can't l see him for just little min
ute? Won't you see him? Won't you
talk to him?'
For just day DR.. English held out.
Still little Mrs. Breckenridge kept on
weeping. Then he gave in.
It'll forgive you," said DR.. English,
taking the girl wife in his arms. Il
guess you love him and I guess he
loves you. Well send for him right
away"
The Forgiveness.
The next minute DR.. English was
at the telephone calling up the Breck-
enridge home, and finally he got
Clark Breckenridge himself on the
wire. He had learned that under
West Virginia law the marriage wa
perfectly legal, and it was the father
in-law, not the son-in-law, who found
himself forced to give in.
Come over" he said. You're for
given, but don't do it again."
1t took young Breckenridge only
few minutes to dash over to Redstone
township to claim his bride of 48 hours
before. There were kisses and hand
shakes all around and off went the
bride, suffused in smiles and tears, to
make her new home with her young
husband.
Now the perjury suit is dropped and
the habeas corpus proceedings are
quashed.
after all," says DR.. English, II
can't blame them so much. I might
have done the same thing myself"
The bride is the youngest daughter
Of DR.. English, very well-known ply
stefan. He has magnificent farm,
we'll kept and stocked. The mother is
dead. All the family are high-spirited.
There are three daughters, all bright
and vivacious: The eldest is the wife
of Charles G. Carter, a leading young
lawyer of Brownsville. Josephine, the
second daughter, is single. A son, B.
]. English, M. D., died recently.
The children inherited money from
their mothers relatives, and a recent
sale of coal acreage gave Ethel $4,000
from that deal alone. And she has
other money. The father wanted the
girl to go to school, but she opposed,
and it is believed fear Of being sent
to some tight-laced institution had
much to do with this elopement.
She was approaching the romantic
age and took the first man who asked
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