KinSource - Tale of the Week - Disturbed His Honeymoon

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Minnesota Tales

The St. Paul Daily Globe, October 30, 1895, p. 2

DISTURBED HIS HONEYMOON.

A Railroad Man Was Robbed While on His Wedding Trip.

W. S. Coburn is the chief clerk of the passenger department of the Oregon Navigation company, with headquarters at Portland. Mr. Coburn is young, good to look on,and withal has a genial disposition and considerable executive ability, all of which, being duly borne in mind, will explain why he is popular alike with his employers, his office mates and the members of the gentler sex. Last week Mr. Coburn was wedded. His bride is said to be the prettiest girl in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Coburn elected to go East on the wedding journey, and were started off with due ceremony by their friends. Before the newly made couple had got fairly on their way some unfeeling wretch made off with Mr. Coburn's pass, his watch, and all the money he had in a wallet that hung in his coat in the washroom of the sleeping car.

What was he to do? He could not turn back. He was known to the conductors, so the couple pursued their was East, the happy bride all unmindful of the fate which had befallen her spouse until yesterday, when they reached St. Paul. Mr. Coburn has friends here, and to them he unfolded his story. He was supplied with funds, but wired back to Portland advising the authorities of the theft. During the day he received a number of consolatory telegrams, one of which, from an old friend, read: "Why don't you search your wife?"

The young people are determined not to allow the incident to interfere with their happiness, and left last night for the East.