Elopement with Best Man

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5963, 24 July 1912, Page 1

Elopement with Best Man

BRIDEGROOM'S MOTOR-CAR.

I'eaple of fashion in Georgia are indulging in much merriment over the elopement of Miss Clara Louise Parker, tho daughter of the Mayor of (Jainsvillle, with Mr Benjamin Sullivan, tho bridegroom's 'best man. Kverything was ready for the wedding at Gainesville, and tho bridesmaids had assembled at the Parker mansion, when Mr Sullivan, who is described as " a,dashing and wealthy undergraduate," persuaded the bride to jump into the bridegroom's mo-tol-car. Unobserved, the couplo left the wedding guests and raced to Atlanta, where they wero married in haste.

The bride telephoned the news to her distracted mother. " I love Ben best; "ho is ay first sweetheart, mother ;" and Mr Sullivan confided to the mother on the telephone, " I just had to marry her." The news was diplomatically conveyed to the bridegroom, Mr Jidwin Gilbert, a successful business man, Gilbert, a successful self-control, observed : " I congratulate myself. 1 have had a lucky escape, but 1 hope they will return my (motor-car condition."