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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXX, Issue 8578, 4 September 1888, Page 5

An Elopehbnt PntrsTEArED. A singular scene was witnessed in the Citadel Station, Carlisle, the police frustrated the elopement a' a lady and gentleman from the Lake district. It appears that a young gentleman, giving the name of Walter Phelps Dodge, eon of Mr Stuart Dodge, of New York, and cousin of the late American Ambassador in London, had, along with his tutor, lately been Staying in Keswick, and had become enamoured of Miss Ida Lena Cooke, daughter of the well-known circus proprietor. Both parties are young, the wouid-ba husband giving his age as nineteen while that of his inamorata is seventeen. An elopement was agreed upon and on Sunday the parties arrived at Workington, where they stayed over the evening. On Monday mornthey took first - class tickets mg for Glasgow by the tram leaving Workington at 6.50. When the tram arrived in Carlisle the eloping couple at once took their seats in a first-class carnage of the 9 a.m. Glasgow train on the Caledonian Bail way. Their hopes of escape without detection wore soon blighted, for a member of the Carlisle police force had, in the meantime, arrived on the scene, and informed the lovers that the father of the young lady had telegraphed to intercept them in their flight. Both parties, at the request of the policeman, left the train, and remained, at the station until the arrival of the father of the lady, who accompanied his daughter back to Keswick in the course of the forenoon. The young American, it i 3 said, telegraphed to his Earents in New York for their consent to is marriage with Miss Cooke, withia a, week, by spodal licenae.