The Marietta Daily Times, December 1, 1931:
Marietta police and the sheriff and county court officers were appealed to Tuesday by the parents of Miss Mabel Taylor, attractive Newport high school girl, in an effort to locate her and help prevent what is believed by them to be an elopement wherein the Taylor girl and Byron Burton, also of Newport, are the principals.
Miss Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Taylor, is a member of the sophomore class at Newport High School. She is said to have left home at the usual time to go to school this morning but did not appear at the school building. Investigation is said to have developed the fact that young Burton, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Burton of Newport, also had disappeared.
Report of the disappearance of the young couple, each of whom is 16 years old, spread quickly throughout the village and it is said to have been learned that they, in company with a well known Newport woman, had driven away shortly before 9 o'clock.
Authorities here and in adjoining counties on both sides of the river were notified by the parents of the girl and they were asked to prevent the issuance of a marriage license. The girl was described as an attractive blonde, dressed in a green suit, hat and shoes to match and wearing a tan coat.
The young couple and their companion are said to be traveling in a Chevrolet coach, and local officers were directing the search at noon today toward the state of Maryland to which they may have gone.
Burton and Miss Taylor are said to have been sweethearts for several years, having until recently attended the same school.
Mother of Runaway Girl Files Charges
The Marietta Daily Times, December 3, 1931:
Mrs. Agnes Taylor of Newport, whose daughter, Mabel Taylor, 16, Newport High School girl, is alleged to have run away from home with Byron Burton, a 16 year old boy, came to Marietta today to urge the sheriff and other officers to renew their efforts to find her daughter.
"Go ask about them at the court house; go out and search the roads; do something to find them," the mother is said to have urged as she talked to local officers. Sheriff Thorn conducted an extended investigation of the case Tuesday afternoon and evening. Deputy Sheriff Mossburg was still at work on the case today.
Mrs. Taylor declared she would make somebody suffer for the "wrong done me" and went before Judge Frank F. Fleming in Probate Court where she swore out a warrant charging Byron Burton and George Delong with contributing to the delinquency of Mabel Taylor. The warrant was placed in the sheriff's hands to be served.
Delong's name was connected with the case upon authority of Mrs. Taylor. She told officials here that Delong and his wife assisted the young couple in their elopement and took them in their automobile.
Elopers Are Married in Oakland, Maryland
The Marietta Daily Times, December 4, 1931:
Byron Burton and Mabel Taylor, 16 year old Newport young folks whose elopement Tuesday morning created a sensation in their home village, were married at Oakland, Maryland, Tuesday afternoon. They are in hiding in West Virginia, awaiting parental blessings before they return home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Delong of Newport Township, who accompanied the young folks to Maryland, returned home Thursday evening. They told friends of the bride and groom about the marriage and informed them that they drove Mr. and Mrs. Byron Burton back to Wheeling, West Virginia, where they left them at noon on Thursday. They would not say definitely whether the young couple had remained in Wheeling or in some nearby city or town.
As soon as Delong and his wife reached home and learned that a warrant was in the hands of the sheriff for the bridegroom and Delong, the latter took steps to retain counsel and early Friday morning he came to Marietta and surrendered to the sheriff. Attorney C. C. Middleswart will defend him.
Arrangements were made to continue the case until Wednesday of next week, and an agreement was made by Attorney Middleswart to bring both Burton and Delong into court at that time to face the charge made by the mother of the bride that they had contributed to the daughter's delinquency.
"Plans for the wedding had been underway for several months," Delong said at the sheriff's office on Friday. Burton and Miss Taylor decided to go to Oakland, Maryland, and the Delongs readily agreed to accompany them. They knew how to proceed, Delong told the sheriff. "You know we were married at Oakland," Delong explained, "and we knew just where to take them."
The youthful Mrs. Burton was a sophomore at the Newport High School.
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