The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-29
HE PLAYS SIR
WALTER RALEIGH
Rescues His 14-Year-Old
Beloved from Puddle at
Racine Sunday.
SWEETHEARTS HERE
Police Arrest Lloyd GrissOn,
IL, OF Carnival and Young
Racine Miss Here.

Love ended as suddenly as it began
for lloyd Gr;ssom, \ seyenteen-year-
old Snowman who came here with the
carnival Monday, and a fourteen-year-
old lass from Racine, with whom he
eloped.
This morning Grissom went to the
county jail to serve a sentence OF
ninety days given him by Judge
Slater on his plea of guilty to statu-
tory charge The world was sweet
with May sunshine and apple bios
SONS, and Grissom had no chance to
say farewell to the young lady with
whom he had spent two days of sweet
hearing, before the heavy door of the
jail closed upon him.
The carnival will come and go and
Grissom will stay in jail unless some
of his pals among the showmen take
pity upon .himG and try to get him
out which is not likely to be sue
cessful if attempted.
Sir Walter Raleigh spread his wide
romantic cloak on the ground 50 that
Queen Elizabeth would not soil her
dainty toes in puddle. Raleigh rose
in court favor after that, but later he
too, went to Jail. Lloyd was just as
gallant as Sir Walter, in another age,
and his queen smiled upon him too
for the time being; Jail sentence later
came from other harder heads.
Lloyd Grissom is Mississippi
youth with the slow drawl of the
bargemen and others of his native
state. His home town is Okolona,
Miss, but the life of adventure among
circuses caught his fancy early and
a year or so ago he joined a circus.
Slim Week in Racine.
Last week the carnival staked in
Racine. 1t was slim pickings. The
rain came down in sheets, and cold!
There was little money and little fun
for the show men or the show women.
Lloyd was not so down in the mouth
as some, for his slim youth and friend
~ way sloughed off a lot of trouble
that would hurt other people.
Sunday afternoon for the first time
the sun came out and things warmed
up bit. The sun gilded the mud
holes and pools of water with which
the picturesque tents were surrounded.
A young girl who had been visiting
The carnival from her home in Racine,
wanted to cross one of the puddles
and found it too much to essay with
out running her pretty clothes. She
asked Lloyd if he would carry her
over. He did.
And they fell in love with one an
other. They went around among the
wheels and devices of the carnival,
amusing themselves to their hearts
content, and when it became late at
night, the young girl was afraid to
go home, and loathe too TO leave
her delightful companion.
Came to KenOsha.
Lloyd was going to leave the next
morning for Kenosha and then GO
elsewhere and it might mean goodbye
forever. So it was decided that they
should not part. Monday morning
when the horses struggled with the
vans and tried to pull out of the mud
which clung to the cart wheels like
the gumbo soil of the bad lands in
North Dakota, the young girl and
Lloyd sat holding hands on top of q
pile of luggage and came on too.
They engaged light housekeeping
rooms in the Tanner flats at 300rSoutt
Fremont avenue, and it was little
nest of sereneity for both of them.
police, and he seemed a frank and
candid youth, that their relationship
had been that of Paul and Virginia
Do you remember the Paul and Vir.
ginia of your chilhood days? They
were young sweethearts, but of mature
love making they knew little. The
police believed Lloyd's story and q
minor statutory charge, instead of the
serious one that might have been pre-
ferred, was placed against him.
eve planned on getting married
just as soon as we could" said Lloyd
Il thought she was seventeen instead
of fourteen. She told me she was"
Father and mother and sister came
down from Racine early this morning
after the young people had been ar
rested at $3.50 a. m. by Detective
Breidt and Officer Chase at the house
keeping fiat they had rented Lloyd
had paid the rent and had five dollars
left, and was hoping for better luck
in Kenosha so that they would have
more to begin life upon together
when they got away from here and
were married.
There is no one who could pay a
fine for you? "~ asked Judge Slater
The youth shook his head. 1t had been
slim pickingsf at Racine and the cof-
fers of all were empty, even if THEN
hearts were open.
Ninety days at hard labor said
the judge, and Lloyd took the sentence
Nith good part.