Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-25
LOVES YOUNG DREAM
DTSSIPATED BY VETO
OF ELDER BROTHER
Byrne, 20 Years Old,
Prevented From Marrying
Freda Kleist by Guardian S
Interference.

II will marry Freda in spite OF my
brother or anybody else" said Francis
Byrne, 20 years old, 31O6 North 2Sth street,
this morning, when asked about his mar
riage to Miss Freda Grace Kleist, which
was scheduled tomorrow and was inter-
rupted by an older brother. who Is guard
ian for the young man.
Determined to make his promise good,
Byrne, accompanied by Miss Kleist, left
this city this afternoon for Baltimore,
Md. where they say they will be mar
ried. They boarded train at 1:24 o'clock
at BROAD Street Station. Byrne said he
and Miss Klelst would return to this city
after they were married.
While tomorrow evening had been
fixed for the wedding of tho youthful
couple. they intended to go to Elkton,
Maryland, yesterday to be married,
but learned that Joseph T. Byrne,
2S3i North 9th street, had frus-
trated their plans by getting in touch
with the authorities there and instruct
ing them to refuse license to his
brother and his 16-year-old fiancee.
Francis Byrne and his fancee were seen
today at the home of the girls parents,
and are nonplused and indignant at the
interference of the brother.
Byrne declared today that after his
brother had stopped the wedding he said:
Now go get married II you want to-"
Friends of the youthful lovers and the
whole neghborhood where they live are
deeply interested in the outcome of the
nf 10 IN
how the brother might be circumvented
were offered to the boy and his sweet
heart. 1t was suggested that he obtain
a license in this city by misrepresenting
his age, but the young woman disap-
proved of the idea.
That would never have DONE" said
Miss Kleist as she stood by the side of her
sweetheart in the parlor of the Kleist
home before the two left for Baltimore.
Francis might have been arrested
for perjury and then I couldn't see him
anyway very often II he was in jail"
Miss Kleist said Joseph Byrne, the
brother objected to the wedding because
OF religious difference. but this was de-
MED this morning by him.
II don't think my brother, who is still
a minor, is capable of taking care of a
wife, said Mr.. Byrne. who is a brick
manufacturer, when asked why he OBJ
jected TO his brothers marriage. He said
that religion hadn't entered into the mat
ter at all, and added that his brother
could marry Miss Kleist il he wanted, but
that he would not give his consent
Preparations for the wedding were
made. Miss Kleists parents sent out 10
invitations for the wedding, and a wedding
cake weighing 10 pounds was ordered
from caterer, but the brother spoiled
the arrangements.
Since the death of Francis Byrne's
father who left an estate for his two
sons, the younger brother moved away
from the family home and took up his
residence with the family OF his fiancee.
This was done,' he said, because
they would not let me do as I wanted
TO, so / just moved over here and was
happy until yesterday when 1 learned
that my brother had upset my plans"
Byrne and Miss Kleist have known each
other Tor many years and at one time
lived within a square OF each other The,
both attended the Walton Public School
2sth and Huntington streets.