ELOPEMENT FROM GLASGOW.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 3 September 1864, Page 3

ELOPEMENT FROM GLASGOW.

AN AMOBOTXS COBBLES. A telegram was received in Liverpool on Sundaymorning, requesting the police authorities to detain a married man and a young woman of eighteen, who had eloped from Glasgow, and who were supposed to have left that city for Liverpool. Information of the affair was sent to. the Clarence Dock, where tho Glasgow steamers generally arrive, but in consequence of the passengers havinp- left the steamer at the landing-stage, tho fugitives, who were on board, managed to escape. When leaving the vessel they asked a policeman on the stage the way to Byrom Street, "atid" this ' afforded a clue to their whereabouts. It was" found that they had sent some luggage on board the sliip Lightning, which leaves Liverpool in a few daya for Australia; that they had afterwards taken it to the Lime Street Railway Station, and from thence to Byrom Street. On Monday afternoon the runaways found their way to the landing stage again, where they were recognised by a policeman and taken to the Police Office. It seems that the man ie a shoemaker by trade, and that bo has a wife and two childreu in Glasgow. He got acquainted with the female, who is a good-looking young woman, through a friend who was paying his addresses to her, and whom, it seems, he has supplanted in her affections. On Friday night he went to her father's house, represented that he was p-oing to America, produced a bottle of whisky, insisted upon the inmates having a "parting glass " with him ; and when he left the house it was not suspected that he meant to run away with the " old man's daughter. " The young woman had told her mother that she was going to Campsie Glen, on Saturday afternoon, on an excursion with a Sunday school with which she was connected, and the mother, not suspecting that there was anything wrong, dressed her daughter in all her "brawi" for the holiday. When she left the house, however, something transpired which led her parents to believe that the story ofthe excursion was'a ruse, and, on inquiry being made, they came to the conclusion that she was " ower tlie border and awa* " with the shoemaker; and they telegraphed to Liverpool accordingly. The father of the fair damsel arrived in Liverpool on Monday, and when he found his daughter in company with the partner of her flight he was naturally highly indignant. He expressed himself in no measured terms, and in his anger dashed somewhat' unceremonously to an umbrella which the runaways had brought with them. But the shoemaker took the matter quite cooly, and an ebullition of anger on the park of the wronged father subsiding, he said to him, quite deprecatingly, 'Man, ye needna brake the thing.' The young woman will be conveyed back to Glasgow by her father ; as there was no charge against her companion he was discharged, — Leed'* Mercury.