The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-10-30
MISSING COUPLE
WE'D IN INDIANA
Despatch from Valparaiso
Tells of Wedding in JUS
tice Court There.
SEND PICTURES HOME
Gertrude Litzenberger and
Earl Harrow of Powers Lake
Send Word of Wedding.

The mystery WnlcH HaS SuAA
the disappearance Ct Gertrude Lltzen-
berger, a sixteen-year-old Powers Lake
girl, and Earl Harrow, nelghbor
son, was lifted today when word was
received here in news despatch from
Valparaiso, Ind, that the two had been
married in Justices court there ana
were now speeding towards FLORIDA
on their honeymoon. The news, now
ever. did not halt the search which
had been instituted for them 1nasmucn
| as Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Litzenberger,
the parents of the girl, immediately
seized upon this clew and redoubied
their efforts to halt the couple ana
bring them back to Kenosha.
Despite the wedding they maintain
that they will press the charge which
thew have launched against Harrow
that he has lured the girl away and
will demand that he be brought back
to Kenosha to face the charge. They
maintain that their daughter is only
sixteen, while the records of the we'd
ding show that she declared that she
was eighteen years Of age.
Married Last Tuesday.
| The news despatch regarding the
wedding was the first trace of the
| couple since they disappeared just
two weeks ago today. Gertrude had
taken a load of milk on a truck to the
station at Bassetts; when she failed TO
return, a search revealed the truck
abandoned. Later it was discovered
that Earl Harrow, who had been
sutton of the girl and whose atten-
lions had been opposed by her parents,
had also disappeared and it was sus-
pected that the two had eloped.
| The couple had most rcqnatic we'd
ding, according to the report from
| Valparaiso. They arrived in that city
on the morning of Tuesday, October
%, and after securing wedding
license went to the Office of Justice of
the Peace G. E. Bornholt. Not finding
the Justice in, they left the license
with his stenograhper and went out
to buy trousseau.
Society Girl Helps Bride.
Harrow, it was said, requested two
| VALPARAISO society girls to help his
bride buy her trousseau while he paid
the bills. They went to the Sold De-
partment store there and purchased .
complete new outfit, Harrow paying
for the same with travellers checks
and cash.
The saleslady remarked on how few
clothes the girl had, but they laugh
ingly told how they were making a
quick trip to Florida and had no
chance to bring others.
That afternoon at two-thirty they
were married in the Office of Justice
Bornholt, with as much ceremony as
the limited time allowed. When the
Justice questioned them regarding
their home, they replied that they
were driving a new Overland from
Wisconsin through to Florida, and that
they had been stopping along the
route, taking separate rooms in hotels
and had decided that they might just
as we'll get married and both sleep
| in the same room.
AS the girl had given her age as
eighteen and the man as 81, the justice
could not legally refuse to marry them.
While the bride gave her age as 10,
the application shows that she stated
she was born, Feb, /, 1908, while Kar-
row stated that he was born, Septem-
Der IL, 1908.
| After the ceremony the couple went
to the Nudge Studio in Valparaiso and
had their picture taken, instructing
the photographer to send copies of it
to their parents with an announcement
of their wedding.
Investigating revealed that couple
answering their description had stayed
all night on Monday, October 81, the
day before the wedding at a grove in
Boiling Springs, telling farmers near
| by that they had been married in Wis
/ consin about two weeks previous and
were driving through to Florida. The
same couple was seen at Boiling Grove
on the following night, but left the
next morning for the south.
Withhold Parental Blessing.
When Mrs. Litzenberger, the girls
mother, was told of the news of the
wedding, she stated emphatically that
an attempt would be made to have the
wedding annulled.
"Of course, Gertrude is welcome
home," said Mrs. Litzenberger, eve
hold nothing against her. cannot help
but think that she has been mesmer-
lied. We will not stop our efforts to
bring them back here and we will ask
the district attorney to push the
charge which we have made against
Harrow"
Brother Of Kenoshan
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