Lumberton, Nov 5—Cupid played a losing game when Alex Lamb, young white man of the lower part of the county, failed to become the husband of a 14-year-old daughter of Elz. Britt, of Britt’s township. Luck was against the young couple from the time they began their elopement.
News was received in Lumberton that a couple had been badly wrecked near Fairmont, and upon investigation it was found that young Lambe had gone to the Center school, slipped his girl away from her studies, and while on their way to the nearest South Carolina town the coupe turned turtle. No one was injured, and a passing automobile was stopped, the driver agreeing to take the couple on to Dillon. The father of the girl heard of the elopement and hurried to Fairmont, where he called Dillon’s sheriff over the ‘phone. The register of deeds told the sheriff that the couple was in his office waiting to get married. Upon Mr. Britt’s instructions, the marriage was not performed, and the young couple was held for the father of the girl. No arrests wee made, and it is understood that Mr. Britt brought the young lady back to the school house and placed her under the close observation of the principal.
From page 3 of The Carolina Independent, part of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Raleigh, N.C., Nov. 7, 1925
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