A Reporter In Danger

An Okemos Woman May Wring His Neck
If She Keeps Her Word Good-Story of an Elopement Which Took Place Today.

While Chief of Police Sanford was at dinner today his meal was interrupted by three women from Okemos, one of whom unfolded the tale of the elope- ment of her daughter from that vil- lage this morning. She asked the aid of the police in restoring her to the parental home. Chief Sanford said he would do what he could in the matter, but the irate mother could not contain her wrath and even while telling her troubles sandwiched in considerable abuse of the police.

While talking over the elopement in the chief’s office in walked a JOURNAL reporter and the tale was unfolded to him by a few well directed questions from the chief. The mother was not aware she was talking to a reporter un’ til her troubles had all been told. Instead of asking in a ladylike man- ner that the affair be suppressed, the irate mother, figuratively speaking, trod right and left and up and down over the reporter and insisted that the story be kept out of the paper. She ended by stamping her foot and crying, “Don’t you dare publish it! I will wring your neck if you do. Don’t you dare.”

The story unfolded was the elopement to Elyria, Ohic, of Miss Ethline Honey of Okemos with her lover, Fred Kent, who resides in that State and is a nephew of Simeon Kent, now confined in the criminal insane asylum at Ionia for shooting his brother in Wheatfield township last fall.

The young lady, who is only 17, started for school this morning, but at 10:30 o’clock one of her schoolmates came to her home and inquired for her. In the investigation which followed the elopement was discovered. The mother is willing to give her daughter a chance to return home but says: “If she don’t want to do this she knows the conse- quences.”