Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-02
LYNN CROFT AND PEARL DUNLAP
CAPTURED BEFORE THEY
COULD GET MARRIED..
GO TO MISSOURI BUT
LICENSE IS REFUSED
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dunlap, Par.
ents Of the Girl, Get Sheriff to Give
Chase BY Telegraph = Couple 10
Found at Last at st. Jossph-Parents
Go After Her.

An elopement that was planned near
here. and which carried the clippers
Pearl Dunlap, aged 16, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dunlap, of eight
miles south of the city, and Lynn
Croft. aged 10, the son of Mr.. and Mrs
E. R. Croft, of near Luray, to Missouri
and kept the parents and the officers
OF two states busy Thursday in the
case, resulted in the detention Of the
bride-to be before she and her lover
were married, late Thursday.
The girl was detained at St. Joseph
Mo. In the evening Mr.. and Mrs. Dun
lap, and their friend, Nelson Lackey
left for ST. Joseph to bring their
daughter home.
Left Herr Wednesday Morning.
Tuesday evening Miss Dunlap, who
had been visiting at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. A Gile, southwest Of the city
has been employed on the Dunlap farm
this summer. They drove to this city
and putting the horse in q feed barn,
Croft said he would return for it in the
morning.
Miss Dunlap and Croft left here for
Des Moines on a train early Wednes-
day morning over the Northwestern
From Des Moines they took a train 70,
Clearmont, Mo.
Parents Got Busy.
1t was not until late Wednesday aft
ernoon that Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap knew
that their daughter had disappeared.
They suspected at once that the hired
man, Croft, who had also gone away
and their daughter had eloped. The
parents appealed to Sheriff a. A. Mich
olson. and the chase by telegraph to
head off the young people was begun.
Sheriff Nicholson hurried a message
TO Marysville, Mo-, the county seat OF
Nodaway county, in which Clearm ont
is situated, asking the county clerk to
refuse the young people a license and
to advise him.
License 10 Refused.
1t is not known yet whether the mes
age beat the couple to the officer at
Marysville where the licenses are IS
sued, but at any rate they were re-
fused a license. Lnte Thursday morn
ing the sheriff received the following
message from J. A. Wray. recorder OF
Nodaway county at Marysville:
I'VE refused to issue marriage H.
cense to Lynn Croft and Pearl Dun
lap. They are still here"
Go to St. Joseph.
On receipt of this message Sheriff
Nicholson wired the sheriff of Noda-
way county to detain Miss Dunlap. n
the middle OF the afternoon this an
swer came back to Sheriff Nicholson:
Pearl Dunlap and friend left at II
a. m. for st. Joseph, Mo. w. r. TIL
SON.
From there the chase by wire was
renewed to st. Joseph. The sheriff OF
that city was instructed by telegraph
to detain Miss Dunlap and the county
recorder was notified not to issue the
young people a license.
The following answer from ST. JOS
eph. late in the afternoon. indicated
that the chase to head off the run
aways had at last been successful:
I'VE have them In charge"
OTTO THEIsEN.
Parents Co After Daughter.
AS soon as this message from st
Joseph telling that Miss Dunlap hat
been found and was being held. wa!
received late Thursday Afternoon
Sheriff Nicholson notified Mr.. and Mrs
Dunlap and advised them to go a
once to St. Joseph. This they did
reaching there this morning. No wore
had. however. been received from then
by the sheriff and he presumes tina
they found their daughter.
Thought They Were Too Young.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap's only objectio,
to their daughters marriage, they tot.
the sheriff before leaving this city, wa
because they thought their daughte
and Croft were both too young TO thinl
Of getting married. They have no OBJ
lection to young Croft but they thinl
both the young people should wait for I
few years anyway.
Groffis parents formerly lived at 40