Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — The Chicago Account of the Mt. Ayr Elopement. [ARTICLE]

The Chicago Account of the Mt. Ayr Elopement.

The Chicago Tribune, of today, has under double headlines, the following dispatch from Kenosha, Wis., regarding the eloping couple, Glenna Crisler, of M.t. Ayr, and Percy Lakin, of Newton township. Kenosha, Wis., Jan. 24—(Special) —The Rev. I. W. Corey, who married Miss Glenna Crisler and Percy Lakin of Mount Ayr, Ind., in this city last Snnday, is unwilling to believe the statement that Miss Crider is only 14 years old. The view of the minister is confirmed by the young people themociveb. Miss Grimm', in speaking of their romantic marriage, said: “This has been awfully jolty, and w 6 are not at all sorry for what we have done. lam 19 years of age, and had a right to marry any one I chose. “Mr. Lakin and I had no intention of eloping. “We went to a dance on Saturday evening, and had gone out of the house and sat down in a buggy- “ When the company missed us some one said we had eloped, and my little brother came out and told me that an older brother and Mr. Haskell were mounting their horses to follew us. “That settled it, and we at once started to Chicago to get married. “We didn’t intend to run away at all, but when the folks acted the way they did we got mad and eloped.” J. W. Haskell, who seems to be the most put out of any of Mr. Crisler’s Indiana friends, said he was only a friend of the family, but admitted that he had always taken a great interest in the affairs of Glenna. From the statements made by Haskell it seems that it was the plan of the young lady’s father that she should be married to Haskell.