A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT IN AMERICAN.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3055, 29 November 1878, Page 4

A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT IN AMERICAN.

•A lively sensation has just been created in the quiet suburb of Boxborough, about four miles from Philadelphia, by the announcement that there had been an elopement from the Dodge mansion, in that place, of young An son Bodge, aged nineteen, and his cousin, Ida Dodge, a dashing young lady of sixteen years. Anson Dodge is the son of the Rer. D. S. Dodge, a retired clergyman from New York City, who. went to Koxborough 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 Fairmont Park. In bis family was his neice, Ida. The family had not suspected any intimacy between the youth and his cousin Ida. On a recent Sunday evening the young couple felt' the house and wandered o.ff. They were seen by some boys standing in a bye road at the rear of the house. The' boys watched their movements for some time, as it was unusual for persons to be seen there after nightfall. Suddenly a hackney carriage drove up and the driver dismounted. He clambered up the hill and whistled.. Immediately afterwards Anson Dodge and his partner ran down the hill, the young lady was handed into the carriage, and they were driven off at a great speed down the avenue to Wissahickon, thence through Fairmount Park, finally bring- , iDg up at the Pennsylvania Bailroad Depot in West Philadelphia. The boys who saw this rapid night knew the couple. They gave an alarm at the house, and the Rev. Mr Dodge, immediately started in pursuit, first informing 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 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 once telegraphed to New York, Washington, and all points to which it was •thought they mipht. have gone. On the following afternoon a despatch was received from Washington, signed by the chief of the police, to the effect that he had arrested Anson S. P. Dodge and a young lady. The young lady 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 reached the Ebbit House about the same time. After consultation it was decided that the • defective should proceed to Miss Dodge's room and acquaint her • with the situation of affairs. While the detectives were talking with Miss Dodge, young Anson Dodge, who had gone out to procure a marriage license, 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, accepted the situation good-humouredly. The young lady's parents were immediately telegraphed for, arrived by evening's train. A general reconciliation ensued, and next morning young Anson left by the morning train, and the girl, with both her parents, departed homeward.