Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08
]. c. KCANDLESS
NEAR.ELOPESN
SANFRANCIsCO
Fritz HenshaW Just Made a
. Mistake, Says Chronicles
Lively Story

James c. McCandIess.; son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. McCandIess, and his
fancee, Miss Marion Rodolph OF Oak,
land. are the central figures in a
near-elopement story that occupies a
large share Of the first page Of the
San Francisco Chronicle, March 2.
Fritz Henshaw and Mrs. Fritz, who
went TO- the coast a few weeks age
after an extended residence here. also
fgure.fin gthe story. Here cit Riss as
| the. Chronicle tells il, but minus the
photographic the two girls used in
the Chronicle rspread: 1ts' nb,ds tbe
ittsThea detective bureau at the: Hall
of JnSfice, IL San francisco, doesn't
seryet marriage licenses at 1880 on
| Sunday morning. raj tseu s3e'eSi /
| .s'FritRs Fubhs Henshawyt being the
sena0f aiilistice of the supreme court
OF california. should have lknogntiit.
He might have recalled that when, he
startled society ION beth sides oG the
bay, by clipping with Miss Mary. Gwen
dolyh Cassidy Henderson, lite didn't
get the license, from the 'pelice5 Wen
t'.Rub the point is,t hes didn't renaeT1-
;ber. "a Hence, when he assumed the
role OF 1directoE-general of the heart
affairs 'ot the beautiful Misse Marian
ROdolphg and young James aMcOand-
less. son ofsLincoln. 10y Nice sndIess,
millionairenp planter and pelitieiant of
Honoluhn,af he. made rather a mess
|, ofiitgEtFs lFiaaiat s!tj politician "a
$50 il happened that -FOUR sleepy
detectives were startled into their
sensesi eaflV--yery la early-- Sunday
mornings when Henshaw opened che
door and walked IN with MeGaHdless,
asking for q. marriage heensR.ea tgs
pTOHtsideain n big motor carr waited
MIRA Fritz Tnbbs HenshaWT and Miss
Marian R0dolph, irwh0se: engagement
to ,McGandlsss, had already been quite
properly announced and quite prop
erly approved, as far as any one knew,
by the high authorities OF high So
ciety on both sides of the bay.
"A marriage license, please, queth
the son Of the supreme jnstice
We don't have. EN-, replied the
bewiidered officersaof the law.
Where 5can we get eneei pursued
a : q
Henshaw, nothing daunted.
You can't, agreed all the four de-
tectives, who explained that the prop
er place for marriage licenses kept
only daylight hours, and was never
known to be open all night. But the
detectives kindly furnished the names
and addresses OF some OF the deputies
of the county clerk, together with the
suggestion that some of them might
be. found willing to enter into the
spirit of young Henshaw,s idea Of
how IL might be done.
But Detectives Detected.
& And as the party left the four de-:
teotiyes detected that the number of:
the near-bridal car was 11.4s4, the
same being the number owned by.
MIS- George W. Redolph of 544 East.
Fourteenth street, Oakland
"And that caused alb the explana,
tiOns. They began yesterday after
noon, and beginning in various places
and coming from different sources,
they were not all exactly alike
i Mrs. Fritz TubbsS Henshaw, she
who was Miss Mary GWendDlyn Casse-.
dy Henderson, was surprised, to learn.
that the ear. IN which she and her hus-
band and young McCandless and Miss
Rodolph had been riding fon Saturd
day evening and a small part Of Sum
day morning, had been at the Hall.
Of Justice
Someone must have borrowed II
while. We were at supper after the the,
ater. she declared with crest sur.
prise.
MRS. Henshaw told of how the
party of four had been at the exposi-
tion on Saturday, at the theater on
Saturday evening, and at q little sup.
per after the theater.s But that was
I'll.
sure II Was = Lark. s
Mrs. Rodolph, the mother of Miss
Marian RodoIph, for whom and young
TMcCandless the license was requested, I
was sure it was all a lark. I'd -
Just youthful lark, she declared, +
admitting that the Hail Of Justice in
cident was to be considered in the
light OF joke. Mrs RodoIph further.
said that the young people had spent
q very pleasant day in San francisco
and that her daughter and Mrs. Hen.
shaw had spent Saturday night with
friends this side OF the bay.
Then came still another explana.
ton. This time in the form of Wig
,orous denial of the entire incident by.
H M Hepburn of 465 Claremont ave-
nue.. Berkeley Hepburn is the hus.1
band Of McCandless' sister, and Mrs
SMcCandless and her son are staying
with the Hepburns at the present.
time. Hepburn was sure 1t was all a.
mistake never happened. or IL IL did,
.it must have happened to some one
else Mrs. Hepburn thought so, too.
"t4e Ought to Have Known .
sAlI this confusion came from the
son of a supreme justice, who knew
perfectly well how to elope himself.
not knowing that the detective bu-
reau at the Hall of Justice didn't
serve marriage licenses at 1: 80 O'Clock
on Sunday morning. 49, 49,
) Hence James McCandless and the
beautiful Miss Marian Rodolph
haven't eloped. When they are mar.
ried It may be just as their engage
"a L.