Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-28
THIRD ATTEMPT
At ELOPE hENT
PROVES SUCCESS
Miss Effle Horner and Lyman A.
Allen, of TuckertOn, Are
Made One.
SEARCH FOR THIMBLE Is
GIRLS CUE FOR ESCAPE
Friend Summons Bridegroom.
tO-Be and Speedy Run to
Clergyman Is Made.

Twice Miss Effie Horner, of Tucker
ton. tried to elope with Lyman A.
Allen In automobiles and was frus-
trated by her father and a deputy
sheriff. The third time the couple
succeeded after a breakneck ride in
the fastest machine the young man
could hire; and now the couple are Mr..
and Mrs. Allen after many vicissitudes,
and are awaiting parental forgiveness
at the home of DIR. Frederick ]. Far
rington, In Nutley. The forgiveness
hasn't come yet, but the angry mother
of the bride have sent her her clothes
instead.
Mrs. Allen. who is the 18-year-
daughter Of Captain e. A. Horne su-
perintendent of the Ocean county oys-
ter district, has been engaged to Allen
against the protests of her mother for
several months. Aliens father has a
fine business in Tuckerton, and the
young man was considered quite an eli
gible. That. however. didn't count a
mite with Mrs. Horner. who had her
mind fixed on another young man as
Efie's husband, and even induced her
husband to forbid young Allen the
house.
First Attempt January II.
Effie wert profusely at first, then
dried her tears In the determination to
marry her lover in spite of everything.
They tried 1t first January IL, when
the girl sought to slip out of the house
late at night and join Allen. who wait
ed In an automobile on the outskirts
OF the town. But somehow Captain
Horner got an inkling of that adm hur-
ried to the trystiug place In time to
take his daughter from tho auto and
carry her back home.
But this first failure of her romance
only added fire to the girls deter,
mination. once again during that same
week she eSsayed the attempt. but the
watch put upon her by her parents
was too close and this time a deputy
sheriff is said to have aided the irate
father In preventing the runaway.
After this Efiie was ordered not to
leave the house at all. Apparently she
mad given up AT least she obeyed the
mandate Of her parents with such an
appearance of hopeless acquiesence
that they were thrown Off their guard.
and last Saturday the mother felt 80
certain she had won over her daughter
that she sent her to the unguarded first
floor to get a thimble she needed for
some dress-making, then in progress at
the Horner home.
Bridegroom to BE sumrnosed.
The girl saw her chance instantly.
She did not walt to take extra clothing
or even her purse. Hurrylng out of
the back door she sped to the home OF
friend and induced this young wom-
an to secretly summon young Allen. He
appeared after nightfall In a big limou-
sine car, and while the enraged
parents searched futilly everywhere
else in Tuckerton he drove up to the
friends house. hurried the girl into
the machine and set out at forty miles
an hour for New Gretna and the house
of the Rev. r. H. Pendleton, there.
Someone saw them and told Captain
Horner. but 1t was too late. They were
married at the end of the breakneck
ride and then hurried on to Nutley.
where both were given shelter by Mrs
harrington, the sister of the bride.
Next day Mrs. Allen dispatched q let
ter to her mother, saying she was mar
rted and asking for forgiveness. No
word of reply was sent her. But two
days later chest containing ali her
clothing arrived at. the Harrington
home. The couple took this as a pretty
definite intimation that the parents do
not intend to forgive.
They will remain with the Earring
tons for week or more. after which
Allen will brave the ordeal of taking
his wife back to Tuckerton, where they
will live with the bridegroom's parents