Evening star., 1924-07-19
LOVE IS AGELESS,
TWO CASES PROVE
Man, IS, and Boy, II, Find
Same TroubIous Path to
Inamoratas' Hearts.
By Consolidated Press.

By Consolidated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1s.--The
grand passions Of Paris for Helen Of
Troy and Romeo for Juliet are not
necessarily circumscribed by arte-
riosclrosis or Is puppy love always
lacking in dogged fidelity. San Fran
cisco just now has two strangely
parallel cases to prove it.
Robert Wilson, aged IL. Is in
Juvenile detention ward here because
he ran away from his home in Los
Angeles to pursue and win the heart
Of Barbara Pfeiffer, a dainty little
S-year-old stage dancer, who IL the
idol OF his youthful dreams.
Henry Mueller, Is years old. is in
a prison cell because he pushed 78-
year-old Hugh McCloskey down q
almshouse quarrel over the right to
call Mrs. Ida Hubbell. aged 10,
Sweetheart"
Both heart tragedies. it develops,
point to the same moral-that love
has no neutral zone or polar ages.
In the case of the diminutive BObbie
Wilson, who was taken into custody
as he laid siege to the stage door
of a local theater where he thought
his still more diminutive inamorata
WAS going 10 appear, Scdnty cdSn, oUU
miles and lack of A formal introduce
tion were not obstacles whatever.
Love mt First Sight.
Robert, who wanted to play Pyra-
mus to his 8year-old Barbara's
Thisbe, first saw her two weeks ago,
when she was dancing in juvenile
troupe near his Los Angeles home.
Twas love at first sight-on Roberts
part, anyway. After that he became
a WnrGhinffI1 ylar A.
for wee Miss Pfeiffer, she was a
precocious little vamp. She favored
Bobbie with frequent encouraging
smiles across the footlights.
Then the youthful Romeo learned
his tiny Juliet would shortly leave
Los Angeles with her troupe. BY
discreet inquiries from unsuspecting
stage hands he discovered she was
coming to San Francisco. He even
obtained the name of the theater
mere at which she was to appear.
On her last Los Angeles appearance
he mustered up nerve enough to
throw note across the footlights
IL read, i will see you in San Fran
CISCO"
And that's what Bobbie set out to
DO. only somebody gave him a bum
steer With funds substracted from
ms savings bank and without adyis-
ing his parents, he bought a ticket
Tor San Francisco. He sought the
staSe uoor OF tHe theater where he
had been told she was to appear.
For "a hours he kept vigil, but with
out catching sight of his lady love
ihen the police picked him up. 1t
developed that he was a week ahead
or schedule; tiny Miss Pfeiffer is not
to appear at the theater until next
week
The other case. with its almsbou..
setting and palsied atmosphere. was
TOO tragic to permit of an inward
chuckie of amusement.
Henry Mueller, who pushed his
seventy. y.eight-year-old rival down
the stairway for love of seventy
year-old Ida Hubbell, must face a
charge of manslaughter. He is a
tired old man whose eyes blink pain
fully in the strong courtroom light
and there is little about him to sug-
sest reborn romance.
we both loved the same woman"
he says. II was giving her some
candy in the almshouse hallway
when McCloskey came along and de-
manded to know what right had to
give his sweetheart candy. / said she
was my sweetheart, too, and he tried
to hit me with a cane. We struggled
and he fell downstairs. / wasn't try
ing to hurt him."
Il wasn't the sweetheart of either
one of them" Mrs. Hubbell said
They had no business fighting over
me-"