Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-01
A CAVE THEIR HOME
Cold Drove Runaway Boy and
! Girl to Civilization.
NOT ALLOWED TO MARRY
Father Opposed Match Because of
Daughters Youth.
ALSO, YOUNG MAN IS POOR
So They Ran Away, and Lived Prime,
val Life in Fastness Of the
Catskill Mountains.
A1so, YOUNG MAN IS POOR

YONKERS, N. Y, December latter
running away from their homes Sep
TENDER 10 last, and living for six weeks
in a cave in the Catskill mountains La
We're Tallman, twenty, years old. of 1913
Somerset street, Newark, N. J.. and Miss
Beatrice Sanders, nineteen years old. OF
1876 Clinton street. that city, who have
been living in a sparsely furnished room
at 224 Riverdale avenue. Yonkers, were
arrested yesterday and are being held to
await the arrival of their parents.
Police Capt William N. Lent, who is
caring for the couple. speaks of the case
as one of the strangest in his experience
The young man and the girl were taken
into custody by Policeman George Monks,
who was dissatisfied with their answers
when he found them lettering in the New
York Central station. They said they were
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward and that they had
been married in Monmouth Avenue Pres
byterian Church, Newark.
Broke Down and Confessed.
When information came from Newark
the youth broke down and admitted that
he and his companion had run away from
home on account Of parental objections
to their wedding. He said he had been
employed as clerk at the drug store Of
A. Laird, 1913 Clinton avenue, Newark,
and that Miss Sanders and he had form
ed an attachment for each other a year
ago. The girls parents. he said, objected
to their marriage because of her youth
and his comparative poverty and they de-
cided to elope.
Walter Keller of IL Monmouth avenue,
Newark. a. mutual friend. had suggested
\ I, 20 fc1ys 10 told hon Of
a cave in the mountains, in which they
might live. They took little clothing
and $40 in money and made start.
They found the cave and bought enough
rag carpet and other frugal household
equipment to make the retreat habitable.
They lived partly on the fish they caught
and the small game they killed. Tallman
used a shotgun to good advantage and
killed squirrels, rabbits and, birds. Miss
Sanders used a rifle equally well.
Driven Out by Cold.
Occasionally. when meat was scarce or
the fish did not run well, they went to
the village store, two and one-half miles
away from their hiding place. and pur-
chased supplies. When colder weather
came they took a boat to Yonkers. and
since then they have barely existed, be-
cause their funds were vanishing rapidly.
Lately they have been spending what
little they had for food. They could not
buy fuel to heat their room and went to
the railroad station for warmth.
Miss Sanders, who is good-looking and
we'll educated tearfully corroborated her
companions story.
She said they loved each other dearly
and could not go on living apart even
when their marriage was forbidden by
their parents. She said she had entered
into the adventurous part. Of their ro-
nance no less eagerly than did Tallman.
Her only plea was that Capt. Lent use
his good offices with her mother and
father to obtain their consent to a mar
riage. She was assured that every effort
would be bent to have her father consent
to a wedding. She says her father is q
prosperous merchant, owning property in
Newark and at Bradley Beach.
Girls Father Wealthy.
NEW YORK, December lit was
learned at their homes in Newark last
night that young Tallman and Miss San
ders disappeared from that city last Sep
TENDER. Miss Sanders home is at 1v6
Clinton street, fashionable section Of
Newark. and her father, Henry Sanders,