Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — ELOPERS’ GUIDE ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

ELOPERS’ GUIDE ARRESTED

Charged With Acting as Matrimonial Agent For a Justice. Jeffersonville. Ind., Feb. 19.—Joseph Lutz was arrested on a charge of being a matrimonial agent—in other words, of escorting supposed elopers and directing them to a justice’s home. A policeman followed a couple who were in Luiz's company and after he had been placed under arrest Lutz told the two how to continue their journey to the home of Justice Charles S. Hay, who later accompanied the couple to the courthouse and married them there.