From the Lawrence Daily World for August 30, 1910: “Horse-thief, a bride-groom, and a prisoner, all within an interval covering 24 hours was the unusual experience of Harry G. Neal of Linwood. Evidently believing that he had not accumulated sufficient trouble when he stole a horse, Neal recklessly acquired a wife. The escapade might be romantic, if it were not so rash. He visited a horse buyer of Eudora and agreed to bring down a horse to sell on Saturday. Friday night he visited the Tudhope pasture near Linwood and leading out a fine mare, rode her to Eudora. The buyer readily purchased the animal for $160. Neal returned to Lawrence and secured a license to marry Minnie B. Mills. Neal spent $45 with Lawrence merchants for some gay wedding raiment and then journeyed forth to meet his bride. They were married, as all true lovers should be, and then set forth on their honeymoon, as all true lovers should do. They journeyed as far as Troy, and that is where romance fled and cold reality camped on the job. Today he is confined in the Leavenworth jail and his bride of a day is on her way back to her parents…. With the opening of school only two weeks away, there is a threatened epidemic of diphtheria in Lawrence. Two cases are already under quarantine and others may break forth at any time.”