Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1909-01-27
BUDDING ROMANCE
BLOSSOMS INTO
LEMON
lFrnm Tnesday,s Dallyl

Llte = hrst romance was nlppcd IN
its budding beauty when dainty Della
Rudd, who cloped from Glendale We'd
ucsday night with John d. Yates, n
dashing young salt River valley at
torncy, left here for the paternal roof
yesterday morning, accompanied by
her father, J. \. Rudd.
Della was apprehendcd here sunday
afternoon ON the northbound train by
Policeman =. II. Hcisler. Her arrest
followed by Deputy sheriff Charles
Keclcr, who was notified Of her mr..
rival on the northbound train by the
police officer. She was escorted 90 the
shcrir's office and detained there over
night until the arrival Of her father
yesterday morning.
Attorney Yates has not been ar.
Fcs;od yet and ~ probably still dash
ing As Della il less than eighteen
years old. he may be prosecuted ON n
charge of child stealing in ease he is
trapped in the dragnet set out for him
by the Maricopa county officers.
Papa Rudd is quoted as saying that
ne never objected to Yates attention
to his daughter and that there was no
excuse for them to run away in ease
they desired to get married. lie is a
deputy sheriff Of Maricopa county and
one of the leading and respected citi-
zens of Glendale. Fathers and daugh.
tcr's meeting in the sherni's Office was
afrectionatc.
The runaway couple left the Budd
home at II O'Clock Wednesday night.
Tney were missed soon afterwards. It
was learned that they were travelling
in one horse buggy but their trail
was soon lost in the darkness. They
were next seen Thursday night at y
O'Clock nj Morristown. They left
there after resting an hour but their
trail was again lost in the desert.
Sheriff Hayden of Maricopa county
notified the officers of the nortdern
counties of the elopement and re-
questcd their arrest. Nothing was
seen or heard Of them until Sunday
afternoon when she arrived here on
the northbound train. She said her
destination was California.
Questioned by the officers she at
first refused to disclose ner identity.
Arriving at the sheriff y office she, ad.
mitted that her name was Della Rudl
She said after leaving Morristown
Thursday night, she and Yates walked
through Wickenburg on the railroad
and three and n half miles north 10
the Arizona and California railroad
junction, where they parted, she com
ing north on the train.
Della is petite, sensitive and beau
tiful. Her dcmeanor betrayed disap-
pointment at her arrest on detention
warrant compelling her to return home
before being united in marriage with
her lover From her conversation il
is evident that her detention to wed
Yates has not forsaken her. The Of
fcers believe that the happy event
will be postponed at best only a few
months by her return home.
Coyly tossing stray curl of her
almost golden hair which fell lightly
on the rounded curve of her blushing
cheek before she left the sheriff's of.
flee yesterday with her father, and
looking into the eyes of Deputy Saer.
in Joe Cook, the only unmarried at
taehe Of the sheriff's office, sh said,
"I'll be eighteen in May, when
you III have change to catch me
again, but You can't hold me AS you
did this time"
This was her sdcu TO the blusning
young deputy after she thanked all
for courteous treatment during her de.
tention.