Appears in "The Wapanucka Press" 3 December 1903, Wapanucka, Johnston County, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma

SENSATION AT ARDMORE

Woman of Forty Elopes with a Youth of Nineteen

Ardmore: Mrs. Carrie Griffin, wife of Frank L. Griffin, former manager of the Ardmore Electric Company and the Chickasaw Telephone Company and a prominent citizen of this place, eloped with Fred Cooper, a youth of nineteen years. Mrs. Griffin is a woman of forty but has been quite popular in her part of the city.

The woman disposed of her buggy and horse and sold much of the furniture in the home to raise funds for the elopement. Her husband was at the train on which the couple took their departure. He recovered his two children, a daughter aged fourteen and a son aged eleven, together with his wife’s trunks and other baggage. The woman steeled her breast against the entreaties of her children and undismayed by the loss of her clothing she proceeded with the elopement with her youthful paramour.

The young man was employed in a dye works and laundry plant. He had no money and was no rustler.