Arizona republican., 1910-06-17
WEDDED AND PARTED
 AND THEN REUNITED
NuptiaI Night of a Phoenix Couple Was Fraught With Lively
 Incidents.

If NIT and Mrs. Earl Ullom travel strenuously as they did the first day of their married life they are ticketed for a lively voyage. Married at 5:15 Wednesday afternoon having eluded their friends by ruSe, they were pur- sued by a party of well disposed bandits. chased across the desert un- ii they were found sleeping off the fatigue by the Peoria water tank, the fond young benedict was kidnapped from his sleeping bride, brought back . to town and held in captivity until she returned yesterday and rescued him. Since then they have been living hap oily ever after.
 Though it was a story of love, flight and vigorous pursuit there were lack ing the elements of crime or even paternal objection, notwithstanding the groom'S father was one of the chief figures in the chase It was rather test of cieVerneSS between the ingenuity of the love lorn of the twcn- tieth century and the stTenuosity Of d former generation. Earl Ullom and Miss Mona Statler rejoiced in their af- fiuity and told the old folks. There was no objection and the wedding was set for Wednesday evening in the Christian church. The confidantes of the young couple were Roy Statler, a brother of the bride and Miss Pearl Butler her maid of honor. Roy was also supposed to he in league with the ''uninvited" friends and vas their con fidential adviser that the wedding would be in the evening. He threw them down.
 To get at the motive of the episode it is necessary to remark that Earl Ullom on the occasion of the marriage of an elder sister had been the ring leader in a series of irritations for which vengeance had been sworn by the rest of the family when the day of his fate arrived Knowing this to be so he had made no secret of the fact that he proposed to be too cute for all his conspiring friends, including his father, A. J Ullom. a gentleman of %, though he admitted that he had some suspicious of Dad" He said he wasn't afraid of anything the rest of them would do if Dad would only keep his hands off. He proposed to flee to the desert with his bride to avoid trouble. Dad said nothing but felt in his bones that he had the honor of the Nineteenth century to uphold, and he enlisted the cooperation of about a score of his sons snubbed friends to help him his chief co-con- spirator being L. R. Templin.
 About 4:30 Wednesday afternoon the afrronted friends learned that the young couple accompanied by their aides. Roy Statler and Miss Butler. had at 3:1j repaired to the Butler home 1928 West Polk and joined hands in holy l.'edlock, after the manner pre- scribed by Everett N Phillips of the Christian church. and were about to betake themselves to the desert. The elder Ullom. Templin, Lawrence Avis. Charles Sarensen. Frank Boiorques, Frank Taylor. Chet Williams. Frank Spangler, Blaine Long, Earl Branch, Sylvia Othon. King Jones, Theodore Plath and d half dozen other sighted friends, immediately placed a guard at every exit from the city. north, south, east and west with a view of holding mp the fuGitives or at least getting a line on their trail Grandpa Ullom in the meantime hitched up old Dobbin and hit the pike for Glendale fearing they might have got away and opining that that would be the most natural trail for them to take.
 Arriving in Glendale he learned that the quartet comprising the bridal par ty had already been there travelling in one horse buggy; had slipped out of Phoenix by a back street ,circled the desert along the Arizona canal, drifted into Glendale for d cool drink and a dish of ice cream, and had again nov