Arizona republican., 1910-05-16
BRIDEGROOM N. [. CABLE
Says Parental Objection Was Not Against Him, But Against Officiating Minister. He Appeals to Various Authorities

l Passengers on the incoming tram
 from the north yesterday afternoon
 saw the curious aftermath of a we'd ding when the irate mother of the bride took possession of her at Hot Springs Junction within a very few hours after the performance of the
 ceremony at Wickenbeurg whence the happy couple were coming to receive
 the parental blessing.
 The groom is Ned F.. Cagle, son of Rev. C. NJ. Cagle. and the bride was Miss Gladys Ford, daughter of MT. and Mrs. F.. J. Ford of the Cartwright neighborhood.
 The first information of this unhap- py ending came to Phoenix in a tele- phone message from Mir. Cagle asking official help in the recovery of his wife who. he said. wanted to come to him. It was his impression that what was to be done would have to be done Quickly loT ne saiu u "dS ti' pSi pose of the mother to spirit her daughter out of the country.
 Mir. Cagie also wired Judge Kent about it. The judge could not take judicial cognizance of the affair but in his capacity of private citizen on Sun day, he advised Mir Cagle tn get the advice of an attorney.
 The opposition of Mrs. Ford, ac- cording to MT. Cagle. was of the Him. siest character He said that he had always enjoyed the esteem of his mother-in-law and that she had had no objection to the marriage until after it was all over. Then she de- murred because the ceremony had not been performed by the groom's father but by the Rev. MT. Hardin who is not only a warm friend of the young man but also a o-worker with his father in the Cartwright and Fowler neighborhoods.
 But the passengers and trainmen, who arrived yesterday, brought with them a different impression of the mothers objection. They under stood that the bride was only fourteen years of age, though the bridegroom. in his messages to this city for help, had presented her mothers written consent when he applied for the li- cense.
 The mother, on the other hand. said at Hot Springs Junction, when she took forcible possession of the bride that she had signed no written con- sent and moreover had not thought of such a thing.
 But if this was runaway marriage not much secrecy had been thrown about the plans of the participants. Though the banns had not been formal ly proclaimed the matrimonial purpose was more widely published than if proclamation had been made in church on three successive Sundays in a loud voice.
 The correspondent of The Republi- can in the Cartwright district a cou- pie of weeks ago announced the wed- ding as something that was as sure to take place as the comet.
 Both sides to the affair are well connected. The bride is the handsome daughter of one of the most respect able families of the valley and the groom is said to be a most exemplary young man. He has been employed for some time as telegraph operator at Kelvin and he came from that place little more than week ago in the company of Mir. Hardin.
 He spent a considerable part of last week in moving back and forth be- tween the residence of his parents and Wickenburg where it was supposed that he was visiting friends but in the light of later events where he was preparing for the nuptials.
 Mir. Hardin himself joined in the telephonic conversation which took place yesterday afternoon and he gave 1t as his opinion. based on a long ex- perience in such matters, that there was never more hard and fast mar riage. He had done his best.