The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-11
EiOPERS LIKE COOINC DOVES
 TRULY HAPPY
Young Geraghty. and His Society Bride Give Details of Elopement at Spring
 field, Today
Both Claim Undying Love for Each Other and Say Stern Parents Can't Come Between Them.
Special from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.) Springfield, Mass, Aug. 11.-John Edward Paul Geraghty, the stalwart
 auto demonstrator of Newport, R. l., who on Tuesday afternoon made a clever getaway with his bride-to- be,
 Miss Julia Estelle French, from the
 Amos Tuck French. at Newport, this
 morning, gave the details of the
 elopement to a United Press repre-
 sentative at the home of MT. Joseph
 Harris, a relative of Geraghty, on Pine
 street, this city, where they went
 after being married in Central Vil- lage, tCoEn., Wednesday morning.
 Both the bride and bridegroom were
 emphatic in the opinion that no one
 would be able to. break up the mar riage.
 'I would like to see anyone try to separate us," said the young bride, when asked about the possibilities of the case. this morning, and added, "It would be impossible for anyone 10
 break it up because we truly love each other and have been legally married"
 MT. Geraghty agreed heartily with this statement, saying that they have
 become devoted to each other and that their love is mutual. He said that he had secured good legal ad- vice and knew that it would be inn possible for anyone to separate them.
 MT. Geraghty, himself, appeared at the doorway of the Harris home, to- day, in response to a ring of the door bell, and ush the United Press representative into the parlor. When MT. Geraghty was seated he made known his identity and handed out a handwritten card bearing his name and address. He then called out,
 Dear. and in moment the bride herself, entered the parlor From the interview the husband and wife show ed the most sincere devotion for each other iI
 We have nothing to apologize. for" said Geraghty. T won her fairly as @ result of sincere love on my part
 "Yes, you are," said the bride, in terrupting, and MT. Geraghty con tinued:
 'I have been a salesman and dem onstratOr of automobiles at Newport for some time and I demonstrated cars to many of the wealthy families there. I have known my wife for some time and we have been making plans for. the trip which the, objec- t1onS of her family made necessary for us to take. I was not a chauf- feur, as represented in some of the and it should not be in- ferred that have stolen her away unfairly.
 We laid our plans for the elope- ment very carefully and I did not even tell my mother where we were going. Our plans for route to be taken on the auto trip were carefully laid and at 4:30 o'clock, Tuesday aft ernoon, l started out in a machine with H. B. Fender, my partner in the automobile business. at the wheel. Miss French met us at the ferry and we took the boat for Jamestown and then took the Saunderstown ferry going toward East Greenwich. On-l our motor trip, which ended in Cen tral Village, Conn, on Wednesday morning. we had six blowouts of the mishap of this kind about s:30 o'clock in the evening and there was no place where we could take the automobile for repairs. We were told that a deputy sheriff living nearby had an auto and as luck would have it, [ that exactly fitted. He would not sell it and I paid him s5 for the use of it on the trip. He treated us fine ly, giving us lunch, little knowing that our steps were followed by detectives and relatives. From Arctic we went to Washington, R. l., and when just outside the town the tire blew out again. A man came along and fixed 1t up and on we went again toward western Rhode Island, through the lumber camps, where the highways are merely wagon trails. After sev- eral hours on these roads we landed at Moosup, Conn, but were unable to find any accommodations there for the night. We were told that we could find lodgings at Riley's Hotel at Central Village and we proceeded on down the hill. When near Cen tral Village the tire blew out again and we all took a hand at getting it back again. Miss French got her hands all covered with dirt using the pump initiating the tfre.''