Smyrna times., 1922-01-25
ELOPERS TO ELKTON OUTWIT
SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTY
YOUNG MAN AND GIRL OF Is GO
RACK LATER AND ARE MARRIED
Mrs. Evelyn Kuhn, of Philadelphia,
Tries to Stop Marriage of her Daugh-
ter, But Later Gives Her Consent

ter, But Later Gives Her Consent
A deputy sheriff flung open the door
and shouted "Stop this marriage" as
the parson was saying the binding
words. A determined mother pursued
them by telephone, telegraph and
train. A chief of police chased them
across a State line in a taxicab.
She was only fifteen, and he had no
job. But they're married just the |
same, and they're awfully happy to-
day, and Mamma has forgiven them, |
and they think Elkton, Nd, is great |
place. Such is the ''movie-like" ad-
venture of Alva Mae Dunn, who We'd |
nesdav was Alva Mae Kuhn, 5517 Bal |
timore avenue, and Thomas A. Dunn, |
TWENTY-FIVE, 5452 Norfolk street. Sew |
eral persons had hand in this event |
full elopement, and here's the contri- !
button of each toward its history:
Mrs. Evelyn Kuhn, mother of the
bride, and a telephone operator of the
Pennsylvania Railroad: 81 didn't have
a thing against Toni always
thought he was a nice fellow. But he
had no Job, and couldn't support wife
and my daughter was far too young,
so | wouldn't let them marry. But l
had suspicious when Alva Mae told
me she was going to the movies. l
guessed they'd gone to Elkton to get
married. l sent my son to Dunn's to
find if she'd been there, and when they
told him Tom and she had gone out l
knew they were going to get married.
l telephoned and telegraphed the sher-
iff to stop the marriage at Elkton, and
hold Tom and Alva Mae as runaways.
Then l went down there myself"
Deputy Sheriff Crothers, of Elkton,
Md, speaks: 81 found out these young
people had got a license and gone to
the Rev. Daniel F. Lockerbie's to get
married (Mr. LOckerbie is a former
Tioga preacher, who has frankly set
up in business as a marrying parson"
in Elkton), hot footed it over to the
Reverends, and sure enough, there
they were, in his marrying office, get
ting hitched.
"Just as | came in, the minister was
saying, DO you take this man
Il interrupts, quick, Stop this mar
riage. l got word from the girls
mother forbidding it. Pm instructed
to arrest 'em.' "
Bridegroom Dunn here taken up the
narrative for the next trick was his
not the Sheriff's.
"Alva Mae begged the Sheriff no
to interrupt us, now we'd got so far
and she begged the minister to go on
But he kind of hesitated, and the sher
iff was firm. Gee, it was just like ;
movie, the way he broke in.
"I had a bright idea. Where
your authority to stop US or arres
us l demanded, real stern. Tha
feased the sheriff fellow. 4 got
telegram back at the Office. I'll get 1t
he said. He went out. We tried t
persuade the minister to finish tn
ceremony, but he wouldn't.
$50 we quickly jumped into a ta1
and went to the station. We got in
telephone booth and tried to call
Philadelphia to find out who was stoI
ping US. While we were in the boot
the sheriff fellow and the chief of p'
lice at Elkton, came in looking for u
We shut the phone-booth door and h
until they went out.
"Then we got into a taxicab ar
beat it quick. The sheriff fellow al
the chief found it out, and chased I
in a car. But we got over the Del
ware line before they could catch u
We went to the Washington Hotel,
Newark, Del, (kept by Dick Will
the base ball player and stayed thel
We sent word by the taxicab driver
tell anybody who came to Elkton loo
ing for US that we were there"
Mrs. Kuhn resumes the tale:
81 got down to Elkton at in t
evening. | expected to find Tom a
Alva Mae detained there by the dep
ty sheriff, but he told me they g
away. And then the sheriff asked l
what my objection to the maria
was, and told them the chief one W
that my daughter was too your
"That doesn't count in Maryland,
gally,' they told me.
"Well, what more could anybody
You know these lovesick youngst'
are likely to do anything if you
to stop them. They were half-m
ried then, anyhow.
$50 I called them up in Newa
and told them to come on back {
get married with my consent. The
took the 9 o'clock train back to Phi
delphia. l have to go to work mo
ings, and l can't afford to lose
sleep. I've had my daughter to k
before, and now I've got son-in-
with no job They came back to I
ton and got married, and took
1920 back to Philadelphia. They
to my house about 3 a. M, and sho'
me the license, and got them 81
supper
Worn out with the strenuous ev'