A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1734, 7 January 1888, Page 3

A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT

A once popuhr sung ae'B forth the wonderful attractions of a certain fair damsel, whose charms were so great tint lovers " from naar and afar, envied tbe chicking thai Pegey was picking, as Bhe sat In her low-baokad car." A parallel case hae recently occurred m East Worcestershire, where a romantic elopement is thus chronio'-ed by a Birmingham paper. " Tfie chi* f aotor is * high-spirited y >oth, whose age is given at no more than 17, and who Is tbe only son and heir of one of the country families, and wh< 8«---rn-in? ocours m Doomeociay Book. The father of the youth is a retired caplaiu of dragoons, and "his mother is of a distinguished Scotch family. Three nponths ago the young heir was l> t'oduced by the private secretary of his father to a barmaid aged between 21 and 22, at & wine and spirit vault m Stourbridge. It was an affair of of " love at first eifchc," and the young fellow deolared that he would never marry anyone else, A friendship j sprang up, and family entreaties and threats were alike m vain. The young man declared that if ha wißhes were thowarted he would end his life with a revolver At this time ha was on a | vacation from his college at Olrenoeater. The family communicated with the detective police at B rmingbam, and for weeks past private detectives have watohed the barmaid's more meats a most night and day. She is the daughter of a poulterer living im Wolverhampton, Detective*, solicitors, and clergymen have also visited ihe girl's home on behalf of the family, «o try to obtain information of the heir's whereabouts, for It was diEoovered he had ruu away from college. Very little information was, however, forthcoming. Authentio new was subsequently received that tbe couple had eloped, and h*d boen married at, it ia believed, a country chuceh near Liverpool. The bride has herself communicated this information, and has asked for frrpivenesa.