The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-24
ALTAR TO JAIL
Young Couple Married i'm To-
peka This Morning.
Were Under Age-Parents OF
Bride Notify Police.

| Within a few hours after they We're
married by Probate Judge Hugh Mac
Farland this morning Thomas Carroll
| of Troy, Kan, and Mary Slauhgter OF
wathena, were arrested by the police
on a charge of perjury. The young
people swore that they were 81 and
| Is years of age respectively, both of
! them taking the oath. The parents
! of the girl declare she is only Is and
that her young husband is only II
years old.
| The arrest was made at the home OF
| A. W. Carroll, 1922 West Second street,
! a brother of the groom, about o'clock.
| The brother and his wife accompanied
! the couple to the PROBATE judges Of
flee this morning to be married.
| A message from Wathena reached
| the local police this morning shortly
before IL o clock, asking If the couple
/ had asked for Incense here. But 1t
| already was too late to prevent the
ceremony being performed, the couple
| having been waiting for Judge Mac
| Farland when he came down this
morning The Wathena parents of the
] girl thereupon asked that both the
young folks be arrested for perjury,
and within fur hours of the time they
/ were pronounced husband and wife,
both had been locked in the city
prison.
another Both declared their determi-
nation to stick and risk the conse-
quences.
+ ..I'H never leave her" declared young
Carroll And when the young bride
was interviewed she defantly made
the same assertion
According to the young people the
girl went to the home of a friend near
Wathena last night. There Carroll
met her and they drove to a station
nearby and took an early train for To-
peka. He said that her father had
refused to permit her to go with him
and had gone so far as to threaten
to shoot him if he attempted to go
with her. Then the young folks, VOW
ing that they would not be thwarted,
planned the elopement that landed
them in Jail this afternoon.
During the morning Judge McFar-
land officiated at four weddings, and
issued a fifth license. 1t was the best
day for weddings since Judge MacFar-
land has been in office. The marriages
included the runaway couple, who were
first on the scene. Then Jesse F.
Johnson, Al years old, brought in Rosa
Mann, IS years old, and the judge Of
ficiated at his second wedding Tie
groom is a Topekan, but his bride
came here from GRANVILLE, ILL.,, to be
married.
Hardly had they left the office be-
fore Walter Kinnett, Is years old, and
Nettie Keeton, Is years old, presented
themselves as candidates for a license
They brought with them o. P. Kinnett.
father of the groom to vouchsafe his
permission that they might embark on
the matrimonial seas. The groom came
from Wakarusa while the bride, who
was of maria geable age, said her
home was at Berryton.
The fourth couple to be married were
from Rossville. They came in just
/ before noon. They were Frank Bro
| gence, 25 years old, and Mary Gndrova,
| 20 years old.
| The License issued to the fifth
couple, who were not married at the
/ court house, went to Charles E. Hill,
over Il years old, of Sylvan Grove
Kan. and Clara Gibson, over q years
old, Kensington, Kan.