Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-10
Driven Away, II Is Said, by
Threats of Dire Punishment
If She. Saw Husband.
LOVE BLINDS PAIR TO
DIFFERENCE OF STATION
Marriage Kept Secret Three
Months, Then Young Peo-
pie Flee Together.

Threatened with dire punishment II
she did not renounce the poor tailor TO
whom she had secretly been married
for three months, Elvira De Sanctis,
daughter of a wealthy Italian family,
said to be one of the oldest and most
aristocratic in their native land, es-
capped from the home of her sister, 165
Valley road West Orange, at midnight
last night and, summoning her hus-
band. fed with him. Her father is a
physician and lives at 1875 Thompson
street. New York city.
Today the proud mother of the girl is
Frustrated at her home, and younger
sister, Angela, entered the humble
apartments of her new brother-in-law's $
poor parents, and concluded her visit
it is claimed, by striking her sister s
husbands aged father and his little
daughter with her fist.
The cause of the ructions in the De
Sanctis household is Benjamin Scala,
who plies a needle with little financial
success, and who, until his bride called
him to her side last night, lived in a
little fat at % Fourteenth avenue, this
city. with his parents.
Met in Drug store.
In the basement of this house An
thony Mascia, brother-in-law Of the
eloping bride, conducts a drug store.
In this store Benjamin Scala. the
tailor. met Elvira De Sanctis, the
wealthy girl, and, captivated by her
beauty, surrendered his heart to her,
Difference in station and in riches made
no difference to the heroine of this
romance. She frankly admitted loving
the humble man, sought his company,
and finally agreed to marry him.
Three months ago the couple met by
appointment and the prospective BRIDE
groom, having secured a license, were
married. Scala swore his bride TO Sc
crecy and found no difficulty in Sc
curing her promise of silence. Blvira
knew we'll what the result would be
We're She to give her parents even the
faintest inkling or knowledge Of her
secret union, and she faithfully prom
ised never to breathe the slightest
word of the story to the members of
her family until her husband became
able to support her.
Just how the fact of the wedding
came to her parents ears is not known.
At all events they leared of 1t, and
every punishment they could devise
was threatened their daughter did she
dare even to see the husband of her
choice.
Whether or not Elvira acceded to her
parents wishes in this regard is not
known. At all events she was not seen
in the vicinity of her brother-in-law's
drug store, and II she met her husband
she managed to keep the fact secret.
Last night, shortly before 10 o'clock,
the telephone bell in Mascia's drug
store rang and female voice requested
that Mr.. Benjamin Scala be put on the
wire. Benjamln's mother, who is en-
ployed as a scrubwoman in the store,
notified her son and he came to the
phone. For several minutes he was
heard fuming and shouting at the
phone and finally he hung up the re-
ceived with bang, remarking that he
couldn't hear a. word that had been
spoken from the other end and walked
upstairs to his home.
Summoned by Message.
At midnight telegraph boy alarmed
nearly the whole neighborhood by the
racket he made in seeking to deliver a
at the Scala apartment. Ben
jamin Scala received the telegram,
which bore his name, and on opening 1t
read the following: Meet me at the
office right away"
There was no name signed to the
Scala called Louis Stos-
ciotzi. young man, who boards with
his family, and with him hurried to
the telegraph office. There he found
his bride, much agitated and pacing
up and down.
When she saw Scala the girl rushed
at him, clasped him about the neck
and exclaimed: "My sister has
to kill me. We must run
away"
The husbands companion looked
puzzled at this emotional greeting, and
the girl, turning to him. said: "Oh, it's
all right. We have been married for
three months"
According to the story told by Stos-
ciotzi. the couple then boarded a car.
leaving him standing on the corner. He
says he was so excited he cannot tell
what car 1t was.
The new Mrs. Scala has been stop
ping with her sister. Mrs. Moscia, at
West Orange all summer Last night
she threw her hat from an upper win
dow, and, telling her sister she was go-
Ing to the porch for a breath of air.
left the house. This was between 8 and
$50 o'clock, and 1t is thought that the
telephone message which her husband
could not understand came from her
shortly after she left the house.