ELOPED WITH INDIAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7377, 1 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

ELOPED WITH INDIAN.

STRANGE ACT OF A SOCIETY GIRLi. All grades of Marquette (Michigan, U.S.A.) society are excited over the sensational elopement of Mary Ledyard Seymour, aged 17 years, and daughter of Horatio Seymour, jun., with. Henry Starnould, a quarter Indian, aged 65 years, and a professional backwoods guide (says the Chicago "Inter-ocean.") The pair left Marquette hurriedly and went to Houghton, Mich., where they were overtaken by the bride's parents, who tearfully pleaded with the girl to return home with them. She declined, and clung to Starnould. A wedding ceremony followed, and the strangely-matched couple set up housekeeping in Marquette in a humble little home not far removed from the elegant residence of the bride's parents.

The gossip and the social excitement In Marquette over this event are nothing to the commotion that will be caused in the most aristocratic circles of the Empire State when news of the elopement of the daughter of a Seymour with an illiterate backwoodsman reaches the East. The girl has perhaps a larger share of the blue blood .of America as flows in the veins of any human being. Her relatives are classed among the old Conservative aristocrats who still hold themselves aloof from the newly-rich people who have broken into New York society. They count money as nothing when put alongside of blood and brains.