A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT IN AMERICA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 255, 27 December 1878, Page 2

A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT IN AMERICA.

A lively sensation has just beet created in the quiet suburb of Roxborough, about four miles from Philadephia, by the anouncement that there had been ati elopement, from the Dodge mansion, in that place, of young Anson Dodge, aged nineteen, and his cousin, Ida Dodge, a daehing young lady of sixteen years. Anson Dodge is the son of the Rev. D. S. Dodge, a i*etired clergyman from New York City, who went to Roxborough a few months ago and rented a spacious mansion, situated on a bluff overlooking the Wissahickon and a large part of the most beautiful section of Fainnotmt Park. In, his family was his niece, Ida. The family had not suspected, any intimacy between the youth and his cousin Ida. , On a recent Sunday evening the young couple left the house and wandered off: • They were seen by some boys- standing in a bye-road at the rear of the house. The boye watched their movements ' for £ome . time, as it was unusual for persons to be seen there

Kfter nightfall. a hacln\ey ■carriage drove up and the driver dis■meunted. He "clambered up the hi ■and whistled. Immediately afterwards W A'nsnn Dodge and' his'partenfi'r ran down Pthe hill, the y<fcng latfy was Handed into I the earn -.ge, and they were driven off at a great speed down the avenue U> Wissahujkon, thence through Fairmount Park, finally bringing up at the Pennsylvania Railroad- Depot j|n West Philadelphia. '.The.boys who saw this rapid flight '',*kileTC» the- They gave an alarm ; "W the house, and the Rev. Mr Dod'se ■ immediately started in pursuit, first ~infuVmiiig the police. His first impression .was that the two young people would -proceed to New York, with which city ■they Were acquainted, and where they /could hide securely. He reached the ,r"depot about ten minutes after the train" :• for New York had. departed. , Upon ■ making , inquiries there, he learned that ' persons answering to the description of • the runaways had taken• passage* in the ' train going south. He at <otrce *tele- ■ graphed to New York, Washington, and t all points to which it was thought they might have gone. On iihe inflowing a despatch was received from signed by the chief of police, !jW ; he effect that he had-arrested Anson ■ ? S. P. Dodge and a young lady. The young couple on their arrival proceeded to the Ebbit House, where they registered as A. M. Young and Miss Mary C. Young. The chief of the police made *,the round of the leading hotels, and he and a detective reachefi the Ebbit House about the same time. After consultation it was decided that the detective /should proceed to Miss Dodge's room •" and acquaint foer with the situatien of While, the detectives were •talking with Miss Dodge, young Anson Dodge, who liad gone out to procure a : " -marriage licence, returned with the ■ precious document. He rushed upstairs, taking two steps at a leap, eager to ■acquaint the young lady with the joyful! tidings. When he entered the room and found the detective in company with". ..Miss Dodge, he did not appear at all discomfited, but, on the, contrary, ac.cepted the situation good%umouredly| ° The young lady'sparents were immed iately telegraphed for, and arrived by evening's train. A generall reconciliation ensued, - : and next morning young Anson left by thfi morning train, and the girl, with both ]ier parents, departed homeward.