This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Karn Travis Kelman Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VEC.2ACI/3821 Message Board Post: September 5 1905 Seattle Post Intelligencer Comes for Daughter. Ira F Karn Wants to Prosecute Man Who Eloped With His Child. For a crime committed in Snohomish County, Ira F. Karn, a Marysville farmer, is attempting to secure a complaint from the prosecuting attorney of King County. Karn alleges that Charles Kelman, 21 years of age, eloped with his 14-year-old stepdaughter, Grace Travis, but to avoid notoriety he does not desire the alleged offender tried in Snohomish County, where the crime took place. Kelman and the Travis girl were arrested in Seattle Sunday night upon telegraphic instructions from Everett. The man is still in the city jail and the girl is with the police matron. The girl’s mother will arrive in Seattle today and the daughter will be turned over to her. “I was told by the prosecuting attorney at Everett,” said Karn, “that I could prosecute Kelman in King County.” Karen will see prosecuting attorney Mackintosh today and if a complaint is not forthcoming from Everett, Kelman will be turned loose.