Extraordinary Elopement.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 258, 27 September 1884, Page 2

Extraordinary Elopement.

One of the most ext£gpjjdijM« i y-«Jop€F mcnts ever recorded \ appears m a Liver* pool journal. The runaways are the only daughter of > a clergyman^esyient m South Wales and a , groom who used to bs employed m the establishment. The young lady, who , is entitled to a lafge fortune m her own f'igjxt, lVa confirmed and diminutiVe ; cfijJple, and had to be wheeled, about -m a ftath chair. The groom was her attendant, and-Js said to be " a young fellow of .rather prepossessing app io ranee." An. affectionjappears to have sprung, np between^im and the young lady, and the young man went to Liverpool and hired rooms for himself and his wife-at an h'btelj' informing the landlord that his wife would ha there the next day. \The landlprd o'a the following day was astonished to find big lodg« i r carrying m his arms upstairs what he (the/landlord) topic' to" be a chiM, and placing it In his rootri. He aski-d what " that" was, and his visitor said, " r Ob, that's my wife," and explained^that she^ 1 being a cripple, had tobe carried.' She was alsacVrried to the iegistwr's^flcp, and married to the groom, .^h© was thence conveyed on . board Jin 'A^Jan atoamer lying m the Mersey, and cbnroyed to Boston. . ;, V •* ; P^'>