The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-01
FATHER BLOCKS
WEDDING PLANS
Refuses to Permit Suitor to
'sSteal' Girl in So Sum
mary a Fashion.
HER LOVER COMPLAINS
Sweetheart Rushes to Police to
Ask for Help in Get
ting His Girl Out.

His face flushed with excitement,
his body trembling with fine anger,
carrying travelling bag in his hand,
a young man rushed into the police
office at eight-thirty o'clock and
asked for assistance.
where's the chief?" he cried.
The lieutenant of police, the desk
sergeant and a newspaper reporter
who happened to be present, thought
it could be nothing less than mat
ter of murder.
"Murder?" cried the young man,
hopping his forehead Worse yet!
was to get married today, and the
father of the girl won't let me
have her"
Wants to Get Her Out.
Presently in the chiefs inner office,
Reuben Vicks, salesman, All Pleasant
street, unfolded> his sad and wild tale.
He said he arrived at the home of
his girl this morning at eight o'clock
driving UP in taxicab, to take her
away to be married. They were to be
married this morning in Waukegan,
he said.
He started to go up the stairs to
the apartment where the girl lives
with her parents, when he was met
by the father, who summarily ordered
him to leave. He said he did not
even have chance to speak to the girl.
eve have been friends, the young
lady and I, for the last four and a
half years." cried Vicks, "and my life
simply is ruined if I can't have her!
Besides this is my wedding day!
Isn't there some law that will pre-
vent father from interfering. All
want is some help to get the girl
out of the house. / don't want to
cause trouble of any kind. But per-
haps you could send a plain clothes
man to the house to discuss the mat
ter with the father, and make him
release his daughter"
Not Matter of Police Power.
Chief Logan and others Of his staff
then spent the next ten minutes ex
planning to the ardent young man that
they could not interfere in a delicate
mater of this kind. The "boys"
kidded him too for being so over
anxious to run his neck into the
matrimonial moose.
"Why young man, you don't know
you're lucky!" cried the chief, as he
patted the luckless victim" of an un-
happy love affair on the shoulder, and
sent him on his way. Vicks picked
up his travelling bag dolefully and
with obvious disappointment went
sadly down the stairs.
Father Admits Opposition.
Fred Joerndt, who was named by
Vicks as the father of the girl whose
hand he sought in marriage, admitted
this morning that he had opposed the
marriage of the young couple. He
said that while he did not care very
much about Vicks as a prospective
son-in-law, his chief objection to the
marriage this. morning was the way
the sutton had gone about it.
"There has always been love in our
family" said Mr. Joerndt, "and have
not welcomed the prospect of a union
which l felt sure would bring dissen-
sion for the first time among us. But
we might have come to some better
understanding had not the young man
with no warning whatsoever, dashed
up to the house this morning to
whisk my daughter off as If this were
a matter of course. If she is to be
married to this young man, and that
is her hearts choice, her mother and
myself must be present, and the
whole affair conducted in such a way
that it will lead to a better under
standing among us all"