Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1912 — CUPID’S VICTIMS ARE ROUTED [ARTICLE]

CUPID’S VICTIMS ARE ROUTED

Girl Flees From Mother’s Grasp and the Would-Be Husband Follows— Couple Finally Lost In Throng. Denver.—Although TTuphTs aim had been perfect and his arrow had pierced the heart of pretty Margaret Ann Sample, his prize was stolen from him, or at least hidden for a while. John Shorts had led the pretty Miss Sample through the portals of Magistrate Gavin’s matrimonial chambers, and the magistrate was preparing to administer the “Unto death do us part” ceremony, when suddenly <the doors swung back and a woman rushed inland shouted, “There’s nothin’ doin’, judge?’'* The woman was Mrs. Louise Crabtree, mother of the wouldbe bride. “.Come here to me,” said the woman to her daughter as she grasped her daughter’s arm. The daughter, whose tear-filled eyes showed the keeness of her disappointment, made a dash through the doorway of the chamber and was hqtly pursued by young Shorts. The mother followed, but was soon outdistanced, and the couple was lost in the throng, i The woman then made the rounds of all offices of justices and cautioned them not to perform, the ceremony aa her daughter vu too young.