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Runaways-1876

BRADLEY, BABCOCK, OGDEN, CHERRY

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 1/30/2018 at 19:00:26

Dubuque Daily Times, Thursday, April 25, 1876, Dubuque, Iowa, Page: 1

OUTRAGEOUS AFFAIR AT
JONES COUNTY, IOWA

DARK TRANSATION IN JONES COUNTY
Special Dispatch to the Dubuque Times

MONTICELLO, JONES COUNTY, Ia., April 24. – Sheriff Babcock captured a runaway pair on the eastward bound train while at the station today. The facts, as hastily gathered by your correspondent from the Sheriff having the previous pair in charge, are as follows:

William Francis Bradley, a colored loafer of Anamosa, and Mary E. Cherry, a girl as yet scarcely fourteen years old, an adopted daughter of John Ogden, a respectable farmer of Cass Township, in this county, became enamored of each other and determined to get married. As the girl was under age, and as her adopted parents might have some scruples against accepting as son-in-law a negro who had no visible means of support, and no disposition to secure any, the only alternative was an elopement, which was accordingly, decided upon, and the pair procured a marriage license-the girl swearing that she was over eighteen years old. They remained in Anamosa over Sunday, in secret quarters, and this morning took the train for Dubuque, where they proposed being made man and wife. But on reaching Monticello they found Sheriff Babcock on the lookout for them, and were at once arrested, and amid tears on her part and oaths on his the precious couple were conveyed back to Anamosa for trial. So ended the first chapter of this dark transaction, by the unfeeling interference of the law, separating they gay and festive amorous darkey from his infatuated infant sweetheart and would-be spouse.


 

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