The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-27
ARE SPENDING THEIR
HONEYMOON IN JAIL
Young CIarksburg Couple Married Here
Yesterday Held on Criminal CHARGE:

Yesterday morning Julius NJ. Plete-
mix and Miss Helen Zaruba, of Clarks
burg, came to Oakland on train No. 2
and an hour afterwards we've married
by one of the ministers of the town.
About 1870 O'Clock Chief of Police
Browning received a message from the
CIarksburg chief Of p lice requesting
the arrest of the couple on the charge
OF being accomplices in a robbery oc-
curing at Clarksburg the night pre-
vious. Acting on this advice the man
and woman We're placed under arrest
and pending the arrival of the author
tiles from Clarksburg they were sent to
Jail by Justice West.
When the arrest took place the bride
made a statement to the police officer
and Proprietor Frantz IN which she
claimed that the whole me- scf was con-
spiracy to keep her from marrying the
man of her choice and that her step
father was at the bottom of it.
Last night Mrs. Zaruba, the mother
of the bride, accompanied by Chief of
Police Brooks of Clarksburg, came to
Oakland and this morning an effort will
be made by them to take the girl back
to her home at Clarksburg. The bride,
however, is determined to STAY with her
husband. The charge that the couple
were concerned in the robbery at Clarks-
burg was only techinal one and was
for the purpose of preventing their
marriage, but the telegram was receiv-
ed too late.
The Clarksburg Telegram of last
night, throws new light on the story,
however, and contains the following
relative to the couple:
miss Helen Zaruba, the pretty six
teen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles F. Zaruba, left her home in the
East End some time Tuesday night af-
ter II o'clock, and it is believed she
eloped to Maryland city with Julius
M. Pletenik, former clerk in Mr.. Ia
ruba's bank and store, who was releas-
ed from Jail Tuesday afternoon, and
was married to him.
"Pletenik had been in jail awaiting
trial in criminal court on the charge of
Systematically stealing goods from the
Zaruba store and bank on Pike street
during term of employment there, ex-
days ago.
THE girls parents are of the opinion
that Pletenik procured ladder and took
Helen through the window of her bed
room on the second floor of their home.
The daughter had been accustomed to
sleep ng with the window of her room
closed. Wednesday morning this win
dow was found raised to the top of the
ceiling, and the downstairs doors and
windows were locked.
"Pletenik had been paying attention
to Miss Helen for some time, but Mr..
and Mrs Zaruba did not believe their
daughter cared for him. He wrote her
IStCSlo anu skOoLdl SdiuS, anu
while he was in Jail he composed several
stanZas of poetry and sent them to her.
THE unexpected disappearance of
Miss Helen caused a shock of surprise
to her many girl friends IN the city as
she was quite favorite in social circles
1.-THE parents declare they will spend
their last dollar if necessary to bring
the couple back to Clarksburg. If they
have been married, the girls parents
will endeavor to procure divorce as
they firmly believe she was unduly in
fluenced into the elopement.
Since putting the above in type and
just as this page goes on the press the
bride was released form Jail and ac-
companied her mother home on the
1926 accommodation train. Later in
the day the groom will be released. as
the charges against the couple with
regards to the alleged robbery at Clarks-
burg were withdrawn.