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ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.T*» It Lictla* CiirlH IUitiuuhv from Srliuol are .VZarriril hi lliU fit*.U developed Saturday morniog \Xkt\ tbe marriage of Jefferson Kendall and Georgia Williams and Andrew J. Pitcbcr and Etolia Nail, Friday afternoon by ’Squire Andrews, was rather au extraordinary case of elopement. The pirls live in Jack run township and were pupils in the Corn p’on school, ibiv© mile-* west of Platrock. Duriug the t»'-ternoou the young men called at tin* school house, secured the girl?, came to this city, soured license and w*re married by ’Squire Andrews. The girls pave their age as eighteen but they are much younger, on*.* of them having tco appearance «»t being about fourteen and the other probably fifteen or sixteen Mr. James Nail, father of one of tbe girls and William William*, father of the other, arrived in town ibis noon In ,search of their daughters. The Nail ; girl U but fourteen year* old uDd tbe : Williams girl is fifteen. Kendall and his wife were found on Hast Polk atroel. but tbe other cop pie had cot been lo-icatcd. Thn parents say they are will-i leg to take me girls and tbeir Lus-I bands homo and treat them right.■ They bad cot, it seems, even been keeping company, tbeir marriage being the thought of a moment. They all live in Jackson township and uro well cor.-! noeted. officer Sanders assisted the.| parents in the search for tbe pirlp.
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Shelbyville Tuesday Republican

Shelbyville, Indiana, US

Tue, Jan 30, 1900

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