Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-05
Brothers
Held After
Elopement
Bluffs Girls Slip Away to
Papillion to Wed Youths
! Said TO Be
Actors.
Arrest .Bares Romance

The double honeymoon in Omaha
OF a quartet OF youthful elopers was
interrupted Wednesday evening by
heartless sleu,hs who led oil the two
brother bridegrooms TO the city jail
on board bill charges.
Their romance was laid bare by the
arrest.
Kenneth and Alfred. 22 and n,
respectively, who claim 10 be sons OF
+. b. SELF. assistant cashier OF the
First National bank Of Minneapolis,
are the bridegrooms.
The brides are Virginia Funder-
burk, II. ll0S Fifth avenue. Council
Bluffs, pretty elevator operator AZ
the Rie Rogers building in the Bluffs,
and lone Puryear, II. Az Damon
street, Council Bluffs, employed in
the Office OF the Christian Home.
Seeks Mates Release.
The girls said they met their lovers
a week ago at the Roseland dance
hall in Omaha, were wooed and won
in a double rapid-hrc courtship.
Shortly after noon Virginia, ae-
companicd by her sister. Bonnie
Funderburk, headed for the Omaha
jail with SIS to cover the contested
board bill and secure the release OF
her new mate.
She expects to take him home
with her. she said.
She doesn't know what lone will
do with her husband, and lone
would not say.
The boys told police they are ac-
tors, that they frequently have been
booked by John Horton Of the Pan
tsges circuit and claim to have won
distinction as dancers.
Out Of Job.
But OF late they have been out Of
employment.
They met the two girls year ago
in Minneapolis cafe, they claim
After the girls returned to Council
Bluffs they kept up correspondence
and last week when the youths n .re
seeking work they thought Of Omaha
and the girls.
They decided to come south and
visit their sweethearts. and last Tues
day they fled to the middle-west
Gretna Green-Papillion-and were
married at a double ceremony.
The youths had been staying at
the Edwards hotel, they said, paying
their bill bit by bit, but when their
account reached $l4.s0 they were
threatened with eviction. 5-'
No Word From Mother.
So they left, it is charged, and as
they were saying good night to their
brides of two days Wednesday eve
ming, in front of the Flomar hotel,
unromantic and heartless detectives
led them away.
? The boys telegraphed to their
mother in Minneapolis for funds.
Their father looked with an unap-
preciative eye on their stage proclivi-
ties, they explained But no word
was heard from mother. The boys
explained this by saying that their
parents but recently removed from
their home town, 221s Dupont street,
Minneapolis, to their summer home
at Deep Maven, Minnetonka.
Dewails Plight.
Alfred. who says he is soft shoe
dancer, bewails the fact that his les
sons in fancy dancing he had planned
for his bride are being delayed.
"Why, we'll knock 'em cold with
our act when I've taught her fancy
dancing" he said.
Alfred did a turn in a Bluffs the
ater one night this week, he said.
and the pair of them have been do
ing little exhibition dancing in
Omaha.
They are held for investigation.
"We wouldn't mind this mixup so
much," the bridegrooms confided.
"but the folks back home will rag
us for the rest Of our lives-and all
over dinky $l4.50 board bill.
"And then, think Of all the explain
ing we'll have to do to our new rela-
tives!"