 The New York Dramatic Mirror review was positive despite the plot having been produced previously . The reviewer wrote , " This film story has been done before and by an Independent producer , which prompts the wonder if the Independents would not do well to avoid borrowing - at least from each other . The Thanhouser producers have the excuse , however , in this particular case that the former telling of the story was a sad failure , while this one has pleasing qualities . Two fathers are determined that their children shall wed each other , but the young folks object to such cut and dried procedure , whereat the fathers pretend to quarrel and forbid the children to love , and the perverse youngsters at once elope , assisted secretly by the parents . The trick of having the boy join the girl in her apparent banishment by hiding in her trunk is the one discordant note in an otherwise plausible and human comedy . " The Moving Picture World was more brief , acknowledging the plausibility of the scenario and that the acting was convincing . The Moving Picture News review was also brief , stating , " The film calls for shrieks of laughter ; it deserved it , for it is built upon human nature . A story anyone can see and enjoy . " In 1912 , the American Film Manufacturing Company released the similarly titled An Assisted Elopement and the Selig Polyscope Company released its own An Assisted Elopement . 
