Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1913 — STORIES from the BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STORIES from the BIG CITIES

Finds “Burglar” Raps Were Made by Newlyweds

CLEVELAND, Ohio.—C. E. Reeves, - East Seventy-first and Hough avenue, expected to find two desperate yeggmen trying to gain entrance in his house Bhortly before one o’clock the other morning, when he heard two persons tip-toeing about his front porch and making curious rappings on window and doors. Instead he found a pair of very new, very much frightened and very cold and miserable newlyweds. They were Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Bowers, Mrs. Bowers having been only a few short hours before Miss Hope Joy, 680 Lucerne avenue. Reeves, who had Just come in from an out-of-town trip, was writing in his dining room when he first heard the mysterious sounds. He crept to the door and peeked out, saw the shadows of the two, but was afraid to let them in. He hesitated, but finally got up

nerve enough to go to the door and demand in a brave, manly voice, “Who’s there?” He held a large pillow with which to protect himself. The reply came meekly and plaintively from the bride and hoarsely from the bridegroom: * A . “It’s üb.” Reeves let them in. They had been married at the homa of the bride’s mother, and all new. shiny affd resplendent iq their wedding clothes and happiness, entered a taxicab and started on a honeymoon trip to Cincinnati. Bowers, however, had made the mistake of trying to keep his wedding quiet The suitcase, the bridegroom’s hat, eyeglasses and other particles of wearing apparel were snatched, and the pair felt themselves lucky when the taxi got under way and left the crowd. Their pursuers, however, followed in another automobile. The machines went whizzing about the city for more than two hours. Finally the wedding taxi got away and took the exhausted and bedraggled newlyweds to Reeves' home. Reeves and his wife entertained the two until three a. m., when the couple got up enough courage to go back to the home of the bride's mother. The next day they made peace with their tormentors and left on the Cincinnati honeymoon excursion.