A MODERN LOCHINVAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 9 October 1912, Page 3

A MODERN LOCHINVAR

WiLLiam Edwards, a young Oklahoma man, has performed a _ feat s\'.'::-?]i recalls the romantic episode wiU: vvjiu-ii the name of Young; Lookinvar i.-f associated. William K<ly.a.iiu' ill'.nt, Mrs Edwards, needed .: . .red ..•;.'., fi-.it tvuild not rind one. •■,;..u.-, «a.\vj .t'il got you one," sam tt'diiam. So no mounted his bay horse, rode ten miles into .Muskogoo with Charles Martin to help him if .ho needed .assistance, picked up Minnie Simpson, iifteen years old and good looking, and swung licr to the saddle!)on- before him, like Lochinvar of old, and ho re her awe-.y to his aunt. True, I'kiwards aud Martin are under ;C!.()() bond on a charge of kidnapping me girl, but Limy do not seem to mind, aud Minnie says she is satisfied with her new job. Minnie Simps..,m lives at Muskogee, and her mother was planning to place :her in a convent. Bui- Minnie disappeared. Her mother started t\ search. A story was told tliat two boys were seen to ride in from, the country, pick up a girl on the street, swing her np on the street, swing her up on one of the Jiorses and gallon out of town. The mother of the missing girl swore teat a warrant \'-)v the arrest of the two men, charging kidnapping, Edwards was found at his auuts's homo. Minnie .also was there. She refused t'i return to Muskogee or prefer a charge of kidnapping against Kii'.v: I ,rds or Martin.