Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-06
CUPID BLOCKED, . COUPLE IS MISSING Horace Bobbitt is Beino Sought By the Police, Girl He Planned to Wed AL
 so Disappears.
MOTHER INTERPRETERS
Miss May Leonard Would Not Listen to Pleading of Alderman (hes.
 nut Or Others.


 and the law ali played at cross pnr. poses yesterday evening when Horacf
 Bobbltt, young man who has sov e1 ai times recently been in trou}lE with the police. and May Leonard. the pretty, sixteen-year old daughter oi MT. and Mrs. \. Leonard. of 617 Mississippi street, made repeated at. tempts to ee5 married. At six clock they appeared in the office cf Justice cf the Peace l. F. Long with the necessary license. In few minu es they would have been pronounced man and wife. This was only pre- vented by the arrival of the girls mother and friends Of the family in an automobile. TaSugh she had learned his name only last Sunday. Miss Leonard was thoroughly infatu- ated With Bobbitt and was loath to believe the story of his past record. The part the law played in the S ir- ring little melodrama was the effort made by local officers to ares, Bob bltt on a charge of grand larceny
 Miss Leonard, who is tall, at tractive blond, is employed in the commissary of the w. A. Mathews Slave Company on East Sixth avenue. Her father. a travelling representa- tive of the same concern, was at Kilmer, La., yesterday on the bus mess of his company. The lovelorn couple sought 10 take advantage Of his absence from the city by having the nuptial knot tied, the fathers op- position to the attentions of young Bobbitt having been of the mos pro. nounced nature.
 When May Leonard left the com of the Slave Company yes terday evening. after finishing her days work, W. A. Mathews carried her part of the distance to her home in his omobile. As she alighted from the motor car sine remarked to MT. Mathews that she was going to be married within the hour. The girl proceeded at once to the magistrates office. Mr. Mat hews went on to the Leonard residence where he in formed the young lady's mother of what was about to take place The mother was greatly wroush up over he affair not only because of her daughters extreme youth, but on ac- count of young Bobbitt's reputation. She implored MT. Mathews to go at once and stop the ceremony, she be- ng unable to leave the house because if the serious illness of her little girl, Irma May, age years. MT. Mat Jews hastened to the magistrates Of ice in his car and arrived barely Tn ime to delay the marriage. His el- OftS to nave the SlIl TeHooHoe Dop ,itt and return to her waiting motAer i were without avail and finally ln- ;tructing Justice of the Peace Long 1 lot to pronounce the ceremony until le returned, he drove his car at full ,peed to the cottage on Mississippi [ ,treet and there bundled both Mrs. i leonard and the sick child into the onneau, and then came back down own.
 The scene which followed in the of- ice of the magistrate was touchlhg me. With tears in her eyes the nother, seconded by MT. Mathews leaded with the girl and spoke Ill o uncertain terms of Bobbitts pase ecord. The prospective bride a irst refused to listen to their areu- rents and entreaties. She lnsls ed hat she was going to become BOD ifs wife and that without loss oi me. Finally she turned 10 the oung man and asked him point { lank if it were true that he had cen married before and divorced ana he had served term op the county ,rm for thefi. He denied both harges flatly and loudly and insisted