The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-26

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.llm Pickering and Marcia kyle
we're as popular duo ae ever graccd
city f@eial seSs Nhcnsfhey bccamc on
sagch lthf sFk all said fgIow loyciy!"
and llr mos taM "a pair Of bricks"
u was lo hc expected that they would
BE- married IN liuc style aud would re
cciyc multitude OF presents. Thcy
decided. however. 10 couiine their IN
vilatitlls 10 their intimate friends and
make an old fashioned jolliticalion of
It. Even this narrow limit took jn
some two hundred people but there
we're plans among those invited to
| have rare time. II was proposed 10y
unc group 10 kidnap the bride aud
groom and take them far out Of their
way ou their wedding trip. Another
group planned 70 give them what is
called in the country n charivari-tha
Is, to collect under Their windows aud
scrcnade them with all kinds Of dis
cordant music Another feature was
TO follow them footing horns
But the groom and bride were also
/ busy planning How should they es-
cape all these traps set for them and
/ turn the laagh on the would be trap
peFsi Many plans were discussed, but
laid aside as impracticable. One was
| TO procure an automobile with 2" ex-
Dcrienced chauffeur to distance t'eir
| pursuers. Another was to hide . me
| where in tho house TIL the guests
weary Of hunting for them, would give
mp the attempt to find them No conf.
dence was placed in being able to lose
| their pursuers on the road, and. as To-
hiding ia house with 200 eager
searchers 60 turn it inside out, such a
scheme was mnnifestly impossible
There was one avenue of Escape,
which they did not hit upon till the
! last moment. though It was the sim
| plcsi and most practicable Of all. For
tuuately for them they thought Of II in
iimc to put It into practice.
"The guests were met. the feast was
set" Two hundred Young men and
! women--there was not an old person
among them except from the immedi-
ate families Of the bride and groom
| witnessed the ceremony, many OF them
on tiptoe of excitement, TO put In prac-
ticc some plan by which 10 turn the
wedding night into n carnival. Then
/ there were the usual kisses for the
bride and groom from members of
their respective families after which
The boys and girls passed before them.
offering their congratulations. After
! this came the drinking Of the health
OF inc bride in the supper room aud
+, lastly the usual disappearance up
i stairs OF The newly married couple TO
'lon travelling suits preparatory TO be.
iug driven to the station
The hour was 10 o'clock at night.
The groow's dressing room WIS on
Tie top hOur of tlip house. the brides
on lhr next Door below When the
bride was ready size mounted TO the
lloor above. where tue groom awaited
her Together they ran up a ladder
WAY lU the scuttle. pushed It aside and
stutd on The roof Tho house was in a
block ~ hOuScs of uearly equal height.
Pickering jumped down over the cop
ina and handed down his bride. and to-
cther they ran over BALI dozen
r,ofs. vslnly trying to lind an open
scuttle til they reached the seventh
house away
Now, there had been frequent rob.
hcries Of late in that part Of the city.
and people were on the lookout for
thieves Hearing footsteps on his
roof an occupant of one OF the houses
the couple passed over teephOned for
he police. and in less than three min,
utes II patrol wagon full OF cops drove
MP 10 the front door IN question
Being informed that robbers were on
the roof who would doubtless seek
an egress through one OF the houses
the block was surrounded. a police
luan went into each OF the houses and
upstairs to receive the thieves when
they should come through the scnttle
The consequence was that when the
welded pair stepped down on TO the
top floor Of the house they entered. in
tending to explain matters TO the oc
cupants and then secure their iudul
gence aud cooperation, they walked
Into the arms Of a policeman.
4 policeman Is a matter OF fact in
dlyldual. utterly devoid OF humor
sympathy or any Of the attributes re
puired ON this occasion. Pickering ex
planned He told the cop what tin'
joke they were playing-all to M
purpose. They were Informed tha
they could tell their story TO the ser
geant at the desk at the station. There
was but one alternalive-to request {,
be taken back to the house from which
they had escaped Pickering suggest
ed this course to his bride
what Go back there to be laughe,
az Neycr'
: "Well have to pass our bridal nigh
Ia a cell"
I'm pass Il In 4 ilery furnace rathe
than face that crowd ia charge Of !
policeman"
Tile ierres ot # was IN riding TO th'
station IN the open patrol wagon
They got there without being recog
nl1ed Pickering told his story to ih'
sergeant and was mformed that Ia
must nut nulv he identified as a ~,