Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-03-30
LOVE ROMANCE
In REAL LIFE
YOUNG LOVERS MAKE DETERNTIN
ED EFFORT TO ELOPE IN
AN AUTOMOBILE.
Abandon Machine and Are Captured
After Long Chase.

SAN DIEGO, CAL. March 3O.-Af-
ter a night elopement in an auto.
mobile. the second within a week,
and fight OF Is miles through the
chapparaI and sagebrush, 17-year-old
John Foreman and 15-year-old Cert
rude Seifert, both of San Diego, were
found in canyon six miles from Des
Canso early last night and forced to
surrender at pistols point. The cap
ture was made only when deputy
sheriffs stalked the camp OF the elop-
ers, guided by the light of their
campfire.
Foreman, who was heavily armed,
had withstood 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 hired automobile,
the girl escaping from her room In
the second story of her fathers house
by knotting the sheets of her bed into
a rope. The girls absence was dis
covered soon after her escape, 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.
AZ noo HaneN -onI ,..o,
by snow, and. finding 1t necessary to
abandon the machine, the boy and
the girl began their desperate fight
through the chapparal. after securing
provisions at Des Canso. Deputy
Sheriff Ellis caught sight of the cou-
pie a few miles from Des Canso at s
O'Clock last night. He trailed them
around boulder. but when he con-
fronted the pair the boy covered him
with gun. Ellis tried to argue and
coax, but young Foreman was obdu-
rate. He forced the deputy to walk
on ahead and then disappeared in
the brush with the girl.
WITH III NWENOuYs
Reinforced by John Jake Swycaffer,
an expert trailer, Ellis took up the
pursuit anew. After going some dis
lance he saw fire in canyon, where
the fugitives were in camp, under an
overhanging rock. The deputies COW
cred them with guns and ordered.
Hands up!" At first young Foreman
refused to surrender, but after same
parley he and his companion gave
themselves up.
They were taken to the hotel at
Dies Canso, where the girl was given
into the eustory of John Seifert. her
father, and to Mrs. Chambers, matron
of the police station. Joseph Fore
man, who was also there, took charge
of his son.
The fugitiyes were in a pitiable
plight as a result of their rough trip
after their automobile broke down
Young Foreman's face was badly
scratched by the bushes and his
clothing was in tatters. The girl had
not Jared quite so badly. her eompan-
ion having gone first through the
underbrush.
Determined to Marry.
Foreman when taken had a small
arsenal Of firearms in his possession.
He declared he would yet marry Miss
seifert. He declared that their rela-
tions 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 a talk with one Of
the officers said that she was willing
to go back to her parents. She ad-