Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — BRIDAL COUPLE OVER ROOFS [ARTICLE]

BRIDAL COUPLE OVER ROOFS

Newly Married Man Frustrates Plan of Crowd of Overzealous Friends to Kidnap His Bride. Philadelphia.—J. Harry Stroud, Jr., of 503 North Sixty-third street resorted to strenuous methods to lead his bride of an hour away safely from a crowd of overzealous friends. Stroud was married at 8 o’clock to Miss Edna Cleaver by the Rev. Eugene Stillman of the Columbia Methodist Episoopal church. The young man is also a member of a lodge and after the ceremony several of his colleagues in the fraternity made preparations to kidnap the bride. Stroud, however, was up to the occasion, and suspecting a send-off that neither he nor his wife were particularly willing to enjoy, he assisted the young woman to the third story. Helping her through a trap door in the roof, Stroud and his bride then made their way over the roofs and leaping into a waiting automobile, were on a tylp bound for New York before the conspirators on the lower floor were aware of what had transpired.