New-York tribune., 1910-12-01
ELOPERS LIVE IN CAVE
Take to CatskiII Wilds When
Parents Object to Marriage.
GAME THEIR ONLY FOOD
Cold Forces Them Back to Civ.
ilization, and They Are
Caught in Yonkers.

After running away from their homes in
Newark on September is and living for
six weeks in cave in the Catskili Noun
tains, twenty-year-old La We're Tallman.
of No. 12S Somerset street, and Beatrice
Sanders, nineteen years old. of No. fS1
Clinton street, Newark, who had lately
been living In a sparsey furnished room
at No. 22i RiverdaIe avenue, Yonkers
were arrested yesterday and are being
held at Yonkers to await the arrival OF
their parents.
Their story Is as romantic as any in nc,
ton. The couple were taken into custody
by Patrolman Monks, who was dissatisfied
with their answers when he found them
lettering in the New York Central station.
They maintained that their names were
Ward and that they had been married
at the Monmouth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Newark, September Is Ponce
Captain Lent questioned them closely, pu'
was unable to shake their stories unt'l the
Newark police replied to inquiries that the
addresses they gave were false.
The youth then broke down and admitted
that he and his companion had not been
married but had run away from home, on
account OF parental objections to their we'd
ding. He said he had been employed as
clerk at the drugstore Of A. Laird, No 1sa
Clinton avenue, Newark. and that Miss
Sanders and he had formed an attachment
for each other a year ago. The girls par
eDts he said objected TO their marriage
because of her youth and his comparative
poverty, and they planned to elope.
Walter Keller, a mutual friend, had sug>
gested that they go to Catski1l, where he
told them of a cave in the mountains In
which they might live. They took a little
clothing and about 500 in money and were
off They found the cave and bought
enough rag carpet and other frugal house
hold utensils to make it bearable and lived
partly on the fish they caught and the
small game they killed. Tsllman used
shotgun to deadly advantage on the
squirrels, rabbits and birds in the noun
tain. and Miss Sanders used a rife equally
well. es-.--1+1
Occasionally when game was scarce o,
the fish did not run well they went to the
village store. two and one-half miles away
from their hiding place, and purchased
supplies. When the colder weather came
on they took the boat to Yonkers, and
since then they barely existed on their
rapidly vanishing bank roll" Lately
they had been spending what little they
lad for food. and, unable to buy fuel to
heat their room, sought the railroad sta.
ton for warmth.
Miss Sanders, who is a beautiful and edu,
Gated girl. tearfully acquiesced in her COM
panions story. She said she and La We're
loved each other dearly and could not go
living apart, even when their marriage
was forbidden by their parents. She said
she had entered into the adventurous part
of their romance no less eagerly than did
Tallman, and her only plea was that Cap
tain Lent use his good offices with her
mother and father 70 consent to their mar
riage She was assured by the police that
every effort would be made to have her
father. who she says IS prominent mer-
chant and the owner of considerable prop
erty in Newark and at Bradley Beach, to
consent to the wedding.