Captain Galton who some years ago was the government railway inspector,
in one of his reports relates the following singular circumstance. “A
girl who was in love with the engine-driver of a train, had engaged to
run away from her father’s house in order to be married. She arranged to
leave by a train this man was driving. Her father and brother got
intelligence of her intended escape; and having missed catching her as
she got into the train, they contrived, whether with or without the
assistance of a porter is not very clear, to turn the train through
facing points, as it left the station, into a bog.” The captain does not
pursue the subject further in his report, so that we are left in
ignorance as to the success of the plan for stopping a contemplated
runaway marriage.