The romantic elopement of a Northwich widower, aged eighty-four, with a widow of forty summers, came to light, and created considerable sensation in the town. A few days ago the widow left for Winsford, taking with her boxes of her own, and, it is presumed, her admirer’s clothing. Subsequently the old man withdrew all his savings from the bank, and intimating to his daughter, with whom he lived, that he would return for tea, also disappeared. The eloping couple were traced by their relatives to Blackpool, but beyond that no knowledge of their whereabouts has been found.
Illustrated Police News, London, England, March 11, 1899