A Queer Elepement.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14153, 12 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

A Queer Elepement.

A "SWEETHEART-PAPA." ■pps, days an eloping couple of Philadelphia, an heiress of seventeen and an hotel waiter of fortv-six, were hotly tracked throughout the United States. They were run to earth in wretched lodgings, mora or less penniless. Roberta Janon fled from a luxurious suite at a fashionable Philadelphia hotel winch she occupied with her fci :mcuather, in the company of Frederic*;: Cohen, one of the waiters S ! a sa!d sho ran away with Cohen becavs" T 'ev3r s;nco mother died five years afro 1 hnd no ' ins to love me or care about me. ana I was so verv lone-lv." She insets that Cohen be]-ived" like" ;• perfecp gentleman, and that tho relationship between her and the abscond!hl: waiter is only that ot' father and uauyjiiter. Mrs Cohen, tho waiter's howev<a\ persists in saving that Roberta is : >. perfect little vixen, and i-.iav she inveigled tho man into eloping, and she has now brourht n':i a: i-, oi naiYiiiv,!; Mr Uobert .Uiu.vt. Roberta's ! her, who is reputed 3*2 worth ;Co-*0,0(10. as de.enuant. Jill" honi'.f, tho l-'gal guardian of hi'-' ra nd d uu.l > t or. -i.oberui told tho Tiolico and tho reporters that if she had nor ? wr ~0 eT . ": n - ? . v ''l that bi 3 ; PlnL-fblnhia hotel s.ir wov.iri never hare lied. bceawo *V nac: nienf-v r.f money. B ?vi o ]{ ki>:ur:es monev, could huv, «-cc(""'t friendship. ar.d Cohem she' srid." ■iron her companion, sympathising wit!: nnrt trying i:is best to make her lonoiy lire agreeable. Althoxi«li Keiiertp a\.-pnt £BO in buyimr c ] oc i,.-„, jj rj# f re she r-m away, she was pennjW J r;l,,s tcwul. mid f'Vfii her had ■icon pawned :y Cohen to pav the expenses. In than- endoni ,i;fr ' tf> avoid erres:. tJie couple iravi'lW. y.iyjQ miles, tho border into Canada rs ; X-.va ,S.-< tb.. and then JtWKtn'f a rime!; flight west to C*>w"v«* ■U Halifax the enude took shirr'f.-r .•-.■nS.and. but. nn the captain refused tt, ailow ".rookie," Jxoherta's net terrier, to accompany her, they disembarked. both til? girl aiid the waiter wee locked up jn nol, and tho seemed t.ia least afio-ted. Cohen cheeri'ullv poioed ail the hi am a unon Hob jvte but snsssten _ that the extent «-.f fci s puiit ron'sstsd in oeeomnpimng tho heire*:at her rcwoiest, and p,->s:n;< all fha time ns rather. "Roberta herself sVr'ear.' 7 Thar, sue bo'ip-pfl Colian to v\n\ away ■*. i u!i hj(?"!, an<] thryaiP-ncd to corarai t -iijanlo >.\ lie dul not. I.ul-tevs in nroof or tnnt sratr'iUMit two v.vcxlihWi. V\cs-'- ( ver. j>dr=? t!io "Dailv Telegraph's" ;\ c ; v corresnondent. hv the v_Jnrnn;o way renvhed. both ' were thor-on.«-hly tired of -their cs-i-annde, and Jiob'?rta says she is onite willing t-o veto }--cv providinc; ho i ar;_'i~.?s i 110 aite r. vol '".:>c i s to i>ros-?cv.i o hiii;. aa:t ir:'hu.-es Airs Cohen to pardon j;or h.tr-dmnd. Araordlnsr to the Clii-oaf-o reTJ-orters, Co]i-?n no::ad as n oov ; nt in d:si.»;r:se. w]io ]iaci driven to afoopt- job as n waiter by tho stress of 3iard h'ek. oh.ertn is a o-1 :_K)kir.^, slini frd! r-f iv.Tnnntio Tiotions. ;'->he ahvays .*Hhire?sed C dir-n as "Count/ 5 ,'triO sa*d he c.*:c.-e owned a. string <;f rr«--oh : or:-:es. .J.ikf other weali!iv vor.n K Ameriean Fsi-.*, roe sr-ems, am'd the l'Jxurv of heto h::ve suffered from en mm rnt! to have been wil'in.-r to d-i I'Tivtwr,™ to brinf: oxeltc.nen. !.»r titulars looked up in a safatv vault » she ov.f-isimrfi after her escapade had l;oen "iieeked, ''is no reason why one should be happy, I was intensely bored by the presence of so many ser\an"ts and iho fornmlirv of my surroundings. I wnnt.ed 'libertv and a friend I endured cheerfully all the hardships of ray travels with my 'sweetheart papa' (the waiter) be-nuse I felt they would sure to result in grandfather allowing; me to do as other srirls do. A woman vesterdav handed me a Bible with a page turned down at the story of the Creation There I read that every livina; thing was given a mate. There would be happiness if parents would allow their children to pick their mates in life without eternally trying to dictate to them." Meanwhile, the waiter is indignant at having been arrested, and lie persists that Roberta hypnotised ]iim into eloping with. her.