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BUSH LOVENEST ENDS INCOUNTY JAILBride ia Returned to Her Home from St. Louis by PoliceTHREE ARRESTED ON KIDNAPPING CHARGEHusband is Held in Jail Here for Marrying Cousin.iI The St. Louis Times lias the fol-'j lowing account of the romance: |j 'Another romance has gone wrong and as a result lour persons are in ;the Williamson county jail and the , bride is at the home of her parents in Bush. lt;f,! Mattie Havens, 16. ot Bush. 111.,: has been eating romance by the ta-1 blespjoonful since she met Edward' Barelter of Sf. Louis, a year ago. She, j married him more than a month ago ;. and for the last week they have lived J . in a love nest at 2112 De Kalb street. |. j But today she is is a sufferer from (, auto-romantic-intoxication. Her moth-; j er, Mrs. Mamie Havens, had her ar- j * rested last night, first because she I, is 16, and, second, because Mrs. | Havens thinks the marriage impos- ( Bible under law because she is a half sister to Bareitor’s father.Young Bareiter said he would willingly return to Bush to face any charge the mother-in-law might bring jaaginst him.Here are several of the romantic things that havo figured in the marriage life of Mattie and Edward:1. He wooed and won her heart in whirlwind fashion a year ago.2, Her parents locked her in her room for two days, five wedks ago when they feared she might elope.j 3 She threw a note out the window and her lover found it.| 4. In the still of night he cam*with un automobile ami they eloped.to Morion, 111., and were married.•And now her mother wishes to spoil it. all.Sunday Deputy Sheriff Storme broi Barelter to Marion from St. Louis and lodged him in the county jal upon a charge of marrying his cousin. At the same time the wife was turned over to her parents in St. Louis. Sheriff Melvin Thaxton arrested Mr. Charles Williamson and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall at Bush on Sunday upon charges of kidnapping, in that they assisted the couple to elope.I They were married in Marion on September 14th by Reverend W. E. ’Pike.!111I
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Marion Semi Weekly Leader
Marion, Illinois, US
Fri, Oct 21, 1921
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Michael T.
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