Putnam patriot., 1916-08-04
NO WEDDING BELLS Josephine Shaw. iS, Brought Back from
 Springfield
Ran Away to Become a Bride

Nursing the remains of a very much shattered romance, threatening self destruction if harm comes to her sweetheart, Josephine shaw, the lS- year-old eolored girl who ran away from home Tuesday, was Wednesday morning back among the pots and l pans at the mill boarding house of Mrs. Lorinda i4aroux on Elm street in the city of Putnam. In Springfield, Mass, Is waiting, aceoraiag to Joseph. 1 inc, her white tiance with a ring in his pocket, which he wants to slip upon her finger, and a job for her to go to on an outlying farm where he has rea. lives.
 When Josephine stepped of the train at Springfield Tuesday afternoon she stepped into the arms of big blue coated policeman. He took her to the police station and held her there while he notified Captain Joseph Ryan of the Putnam police department. Gap. tuin ttyan totu the Springfield officers | to hold Josephine and that he would 1 come and personally escort her back to Putnam and her anxious mother in the mill boarding house. And that is l just what happened. At first the wonld-be bride was rather obdurate md said that she would do away with herself at the first opportunity if not allowed to go on her way to the altar, l She even alluded to another Orpet. Lambert ease with herself as one of the central figures. As she approach. ed the old home town however she grew more resigned and by the time she was folded in the arms of her mother late Tuesday night she had de- cided that she would not run away again, although she still maintained that If they arrested her man there would be funeral and that her friends would be riding down Main street In carriages behind her.
 Josephine disappeared Tuesday morning. She and her mother are both employed at the Laroux mill boarding house. Not long ago a mil operative left Putnam. He and Jc- sephine had been seen together and 1t was known that he had given her presents. After he left it was noticed that the girl was not the light-hearted, care.free, smiling Josephine of old and when she asked for day oil Tuesday to go to the farm of Jim" Jackson in the outskirts of Putnam both her mother and the boardinghouse mis- tress became suspicious. Mrs. Peter St. George, with whom Josephine made her home while MT. St. George was alive, was visiting at the Jack sons and 1t was ostensioiy to visit M IS. St. George that Josephine started out.
 During the morning the Jackson farm was called on the telephone to see if the girl had arrived. No Joseph- inc. This confirmed the suspicious of the two women who notified Captain | Ryan. The ticket agent at the rall- road station knew Josephine and re- membered selling her a ticket to the city over in the Bay State, 4The cap. tain immediately got in touch with the officers there and told them to take Josephine and the man too if they saw him. But the man was not down to the station to welcome his intended lso he was not arrested.
 According to the police Josephine says that she is sure that by this time she could have written Mrs. before her name if they had not interfered, for she received promise to this effect, but she did not say whether 1t was sealed at the time of delivery She feels sure that as soon as he hears Of her reasons for not keeping her ap. pointment he will return to Putnam for the wedding, belated though 1t may be. The captain told her that If the m III had meant 10 marry her he would have married her before he left Put nam but Josephine says no, he prom ised to marry her, he would marry her and If they do anything to him she will leave this mundane sphere with it's trials sorrows and disappointments.