He Eloped With His Own Wife

HE ELOPED WITH HIS OWN WIFE

Under the heading "Eloped with His Own Wife," the Detroit News contains the following Washtenaw County item:

If Mr. and Mrs. Clay Kingsley, of Salem, Mich., are in Detroit, they will convey an everlasting favor and great relief on some 30 or 40 of their relatives, who arrived in the city today to look for them, by making their exact whereabouts known. 

Clay, according to the story of one of his relatives who came to the News office in the progress of the search, is now 20 years old, but will be 21 tomorrow. For two years, in fact, ever since their wedding day, he and his wife have lived on the farm at Salem, which belongs to Mrs. Charles  Kingsley, of Ann Arbor.

On Oct. 28 Clay hitched up the family nag and he and his wife in their best store clothes drove away, the wife calling back to the hired man, as they passed out of the bar yard, that they would be back to supper.

Since then Clay and his wife have not been back, and the relatives who set out to ascertain their whereabouts, have only been able to learn that they drew $500, which they had in the bank at Salem, left the horse and buggy at Plymouth, and took a train. 

Some of the neighbors who came to Detroit a few days later have an idea that they saw Clay and his wife on Woodward avenue, all togged out in new fixings, and working on the theory that they are here now, the relatives have set out to find them and inquire if they are going back to the farm.

"We haven't any idea of foul play," said Clay's sister, "but we can't see what on earth they wanted to elope like that for. If the boy had eloped with someone else, it would have been different, but with his own wife-ain't it funny?"