Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1915 — Lafayette Detective Found Chalmers Elopers in Minnesota. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Detective Found Chalmers Elopers in Minnesota.

Wm. W. Weinhardt, head of the Weinhardt Secret Service bureau, Lafayette, and Harvey Rogers, of Chalmers, left Monday for St. James, Minn., where Mr. Weinhardt had located Mr. Rogers’ daughter, Bessie, 16 years old, and her lover, George Luck, 19 years old. The couple eloped from the Rogers home on the night of February 28, while a party was in progress. It was a rather romantic elopement. The pair before leaving cut the telephone wires leading from the Rogers home, and then the girl’s clothes were placed in the automobile. It is Mr. Rogers' intention, if the young coupel are married and doing well, to leave them in contentment. But if he finds otherwise, he will bring his youthful daughter home.