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»ORT MADISON COUPLE MYSTERIOUSLY SILENT.v\itJfoung People Eloped Friday, Au gust 14, and Diligent Search Pails to Locate Them.For several days The Democrat lias een withholding a very interesting lews item out of deference to the vislies of Mr. and Mth. A. J. McKee f 223 Front street, but the matter ias been made public through another murce aud we today give the tem to our readers.For some time Thoa. Paxton, Jr., ion of the form* r master mechanic of ;he Santa Fe in Fort Madison, has seen paying attentions to Miss Bertha McKee, to which the young lady’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McKee, ibjected as they did not wish their laughter to marry the young man. Die young people seem to have de-ided to do as they pleased and taken matters into their own hands. Since Friday, August 14, they have been missing and all efforts to locate them have proved futile. They did not leave a single clue as to where they were going and have disappeared as completely as though the lt;‘arth hadopened and swallowed them. All the cities and towns within a hundred miles of Fort Madison have been visited but no trace of theiu found. It is presumed that they have been married—in fact that is almost a certainty, but the parents of the girl are very anxious concerning her and eagerly await some tidings of her. The father of the young man, who is now at Fort Smith, Ark., has been informed of the affair and says he knows nothing of his son’s whereabouts.The Hannibal Courier-Post of Thursday had the following to say about the elopement:Mrs. McKee of Fort Madison, Iowa, arrived in Hannibal yesterday afternoon over the Burlington in search of her daughter. Miss Bertha McKee. The latter is supposed to have eloped from home yesterday morning with Thomas Paxton, a young man of Fort Madison.It is the intention of the couple to get married, so Mrs. McKee claims. She thought it was possible that they came to Hannibal to have the nuptial knot tied. Mrs. McKee visited the court house on her arrival here and invoked the assistance of Prosecuting Attorney Nelson. Mr. Nelson telephoned to Palmyra and found that no marriage license had been issued to the couple in that city.Mrs. McKee will prevent the wed-ing, if possible. She says that she does not wish her daughter to marry now. She has no idea where the couple have gone, but believes that they will be married soon, as possible. It is probable that instead of coming to Hannibal the couple stopped off either in Keokuk or Quincy.OifirCiMacOfcltInuI
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Wed, Aug 26, 1903
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