East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-03-30

San Diego, Cal, March 30.-After
q night elopement in an automobile,
the second within a week, and flight
of is miles through the chapparal
and sagebrush, 17-year-old John Fore
man and 15-year-old Gertrude Seifert,
both of San Diego. were found in a
canyon. six miles from Des Canso
early last night and forced to sur
render at a pistols point The cap
ture was made only when deputy
sheriffs stalked the camp of the
elopers. guided by the light OF their
camp fire.
Foreman, who was heavily armed,
had withstood a previous attempt at
capture, with drawn revolvers, taking
Deputy Sheriff Charles Ellis captive,
and later releasing him.
The couple eloped from San Diego
Monday night in a hired automobile,
the girl escaping from her room in
the second story of her fathers house
by knotting the sheets of her bed in
to a rope. The girls absence was dis
covered soon after she escaped, and
a posse sent in pursuit. Foreman hav-
ing told friends he would head for
Death Valley, where he hoped to elude
capture in the desert.
Flee Through Chapparal.
At Des Canso the road was block
ed by snow. and, finding 1t necessary
to abandon the machine, the boy and
the girl began their desperate flight
through the chapparal. after securing
provisions at Des Canso.
Deputy Sheriff Ellis caught sight
OF the couple few miles from Des
Canso at o'clock last night. He
tralled them around a boulder, but
when he confronted the pair the boy
covered him with a gun. Ellis tried
to argue and coax but young Fore
man was obdurate. He forced the
deputy to walk on ahead and then
disappeared in the brush with the
girl. Reinforced by Jake Swyacffer.
an expert trailer, Ellis took up the
pursuit anew After going some dis
tance he saw a fire in a canyon.
where the fugitives were in camp un-
der an overhanging rock. The dep
uties covered them with guns and or
dered Hands up. At first young
Foreman refused to surrender, but af-
ter some parley he and his compan-
ion gave themselves up. They were
taken to the hotel at Des Canso, where
the girl was given into the custody
OF John Seifert. her father, and to
Mrs. Chambers, matron of the police
station Joseph Foreman, who was
also there. took charge of his son.
In Pitiable Plight.
The fugitives were In a pitiable
plight as result of their rough trip
after their automobile broke down.
Young Foreman's face was badly
scratched by the bushes and his cloth
ing was in tatters. The girl had not
Jared so badly, her companion hav-
ing gone first through the underbrush,
Foreman when taken had a small ar
senal of firearms on his person. He
declared that he would yet marry
Miss. Seifert He declared that their
relations had been entirely proper. He
said that they had talked matters
over in camp and decided that she
should return home for two years and
obey her parents on condition that
she be not compelled to go to Europe
with them and that she be permitted
to correspond with young Foreman.
The latter, according to the plan,
was to go back to school and prepare
to support his bride of the future.
Miss Seifert in talk with one Of
the officers said that she was willing
to go back to her parents She ad-
mitted that she had not treated her
mother right but she insisted that she
would yet marry her youthful lover.
She said that their original plan was
to stay secreted in camp until the
pursuit ended when they would go
somewhere and be married. The ap-
pearance of the deputies thwarted
that design.
Mr.. Foreman, sr., during a confer
ence at the hotel after the capture,
suggested that probably the best plan
would be to let his son and Miss Sci
fert have their wish and be married.
He thought they showed courage and
determination, and that they deserv-
ed to win their fight for matrimony.
But Mr.. Seifert was obdurate He de-
clared that his daughter should come
home and obey her parents. He he
jected with some heat and with very
energetic language the suggestion that
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