A Midnight Elopement (1912)

Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other but her father vehemently shows his disapproval of Jim An elopement is planned and at midnight Jim has the country magistrate waiting for him at the cross roads He goes to tap on Sallies window but makes a mistake and awakens old man Rice who clad in his pajamas pursues him with a shotgun and as Jim joins the magistrate takes a pot shot at them which finds lodgement in the judges back When Rice finds out what he has done he is in fear of the law but Jim pays the judge to settle the matter on condition that Rice gives his consent to his daughters marriage