AN UNLUCKY ELOPEMENT.
Sews from Melbonrne under date 16lh Instant says that m the fashionable Bubnrb of St. Kilda quite a toman tic elopement 0889 baa occurred. The parties to it are very young and foolish, and the talons of the law, which have fitetened on the youthful pair, will help to cure them of their romantio tendencies. Ernest Reid was a youth of eighteen, who fell m love with Anne Maude Hogan,- aged sixteen, daughter of a bookseller. The bookseller was a hard-hearted parent, however, and gave his daughter a beating because «h« parslsted m spaaklng to her lover. The result was that the couple arranged an elopement. The girl got out of a window at i..ree o'olock one moraiDg. Bineath tin window was the lover In a cab. Th-y hied to the city, got something to eat at a restaurant, and by the early train set off to Sandhurst. There Master Reid took his sweetheart to an empty house, to whioh he brought food and blankets fromj a neighboring oe-ffee palace; but on a oharge of vagrancy Miss Hogan was arrested and brought baok to her father, and Master Reid stands committed for trial f->r abduction.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1513, 22 March 1887, Page 3
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198AN UNLUCKY ELOPEMENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1513, 22 March 1887, Page 3
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