Run Run Run Run Runaway

July 1911
Elopers Flee
  Babies Left Behind

Sheriff Fautz is tracking two elopers today. On complain that Mrs. Tillie Sterret, wife of A. J.  Sterret of What Cheer, had eloped with James Brainerd, of that village, from the hope of the woman's uncle, the sheriff of Johnson ounty was put on the scent, as it was thought the pair came this way.

Relatives Hunt
Her brother Elmer Day, and her uncle, J. R. Griffith, of Lytle City, near Parnell, also came here today hunting the missing woman, who was visiting Mr. Griffith when she left home, driving away in an old buggy, behind a blind horse, to make unromantic features of a rather sensational case.
A sad feature of the case is that three children are left behind by the forgetful wife and mother. She is 26 and her "friend" is 25 and single. Strangely enough, when the woman went to her uncle's home, her brother, Jim, and her husband accompanied her. The husband was there, last night, at nine, when the couple drove away. The husband, with three empty mouths calling him at home, went back, and is working on the farm now while officers and the relatives of Mrs. Sterrett are pursuing her in the hope of coaxing her back from her madness.


Her madness? LOL - I wish I could hear her half of the story.

Eloped!

Feb 7 1885
A Scranton Girl Elopes

A dispatch dated Scranton Jan 31st says: Lizzie Bogart, the charming 18 year-old daughter of Assistant  Superintendent Garrett Bogart, of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, has caused a social sensation by eloping with a young brakeman named George J. Fowler, who is employed on a passenger train between Buffalo and New York. Fowler is not much more than 20 years old and quite handsome. The young people met accidentally shortly after Miss Bogart's return home from Europe with her father a few months ago, and the acquaintance has been continued until it ripened into love. They usually met at the skating rink in Scranton.
Of course the lovers knew that Superintendent Bogart would never consent to their union, and so shortly after five o'clock Friday evening, accompanied by Fowler's sister, they went to the office of Alderman Fuller and were married. When the Alderman asked Miss Bogart if she was related to Superintendent Bogart she replied that she was a sister, and he believed her. After the ceremony the party drove a short distance out of town and had a friendly engineer stop his train to take them on board. After reaching Binghamton, Fowler telegraphed the news of their marriage to Superintendent Bogart, who is very much incensed over the affair.
Miss Bogart is pretty and accomplished, and had hosts of friends in Scranton.

Ahh love :)