The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-29
DnUuHILN I'll
THE MAYOR
SCooBAS CHIEF EXECUTIVE
GETS REAL MAD AND
THREATENS TO SHOOT.
Gets Out injunction and Writ of Ha.
beas Corpus to Take Girl Wife
Away From Her Spouse.

SCOOBA, Miss, June 29-After a
futile injunction to restrain the mar.
riage of his 15-year old Daughter, fol.
lowed by habeas corpus proceeding
declaring that the girl was being un-
lawfully restrained in the custody OF
the man she had married, Annie Nor
rison Stewart has been restored to
the parental roof-tree and the blood
shed predicted to follow the sensa-
tional events of the past few days
failed to materialize. Thad Stewart
and the girl wife reached here shortly
after dark Saturday night in custody
of deputy sheriff, an the father of
the girl, who had threatened to kill
his Objectionable son-in-law on sight,
was not permitted to carry the threat
into execution, although he was ready
and willing to do so. The girl stoutly
declares that she will rejoin her boy
husband at the first opportunity, and
in spite of the legal processes issued
by the courts. The irate father is
mayor of Scooba, while young Stew
art belongs to one of the foremost
families of the country, and his elope-
ment with Miss Morrison, a girl hard
ly more than fifteen years of age, and
of exceptional beauty, has furnished
Kemper county with the greatest SEN
sation it has experienced since the
celebrated life insurance poisoning
case and the trial of Dr. Lipscomb and
Col. Jack The story of Stewards
marriage to Miss Morrison bears the
flavor of the days of knighthood liz
some respects and in others it is in
tensely modern, for the case presents
what is perhaps the first instance in
history of an injunction bing issued
to restrain marriage. When Mr.
Morrison learned of the infatuation Of
his daughter for Stewart, and found it
impossible to prevent clandestine
meetings of the young couple, being
told in a very emphatic manner by
his young but determined daughter
that she intended to marry Stewart in
spite of all obstacles, Mr.. Morrison ap-
piled for and secured an Injunction
from Chancellor McCool to restrain
the match.
Before the injunction process could
be served, however, Stewart took
flight and went the state of Ala
bama, evading the process placed in
the hands of the sheriff. He had been
notified by his friends that Mr.. Nor
rison had applied to the courts, and
managed to escape before the chan
cellor's fiat left the sheriffs office.
Morrison then sent Miss Annie to the
gulf coast and had her placed in a
convent at Pass Christian. Peace and
quiet were restored, but it was only
he lull that preceded the storm. Stew
art learned of the whereabouts of his
sweetheart, and went to the Missis
Slppi coast. via Mobile. He managed.
to get word into the convent, in some
mysterious manner not yet revealed,
that he was in waiting, and the girl
stole out at night and Joined him. On
The following morning they were mar.
ried, and telegraphed to -Scooba an
nouncing that fact and asked for +he
parental blessing.
But the parental blessing was not
working around Scooba on this parti-
cular occasion. On the contrary. Mr..
Morrison swore that he would kill
Stewart on sight, and fully prepared
for the act by going to ah ard
ware store and purchasing several
'ounds of ammunition for his shot
gun. The telegram form Stewart an
bounced that he would arrive in Scoo-
pa on the following day with his
bride, and the entire population of
he town was on hand to meet them.
n the crowd was a hundred or more
If Stewards friends, who were also
lrmed, and declared that they would
lot permit any violence to be offered
he young bridegroom. Had Stewart
lrriyed on the train as expected a