Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-10
AN ENGLISH LADY IN PRISON.

a Rcmarknbic story by the Daughter
Of an Em:iisl, Colonel Of lnlm lltry-
From Afiluence 10 u LuRer Beer Su-
loon.
The Newark IN. J.) Advertiser of the
21st remarks: g..
Now being detained ut the Second
precinct station house in this city, is u
fine looking young woman about twen.
ty-seyen years of age, whose gentcel
and becoming dress, lady-llke man.
ners, and evident culture, stamp her a
person who has indeed seen better
days. A descent was made some days
since upon the saloon under Oraton
Hall, place of questionable repnta-
tion, and presiding at the piano at this
time was the subject of this paragraph.
She was was taken in custody with the
other parties found in the saloon, but
when brought before Judge Lambert
she protested her innocence of any
criminality, and declared that penury
had driven her to seek employment as
a pianist in the only place which, as a
stranger, and without any means at
hand to prove her respectability, she
could expect to obtain it.
Her cultured manner and CONVERSE
tion, her evident sincerity and unaf-
fected dignity of dcmeanor, satisfied
the Judge that her representations
were truthful, and he took pains to
separate her as much as possible from
disagreeable prison associations, and
subsequently, drew from her a brief
story of her life. She said she was the
daughter of Colonel John Hutchinson
Garner, of Garnerville, near Belfast,
county Down, Ireland, who formerly
commanded the Fortieth regiment
British infantry, but is now a retired
officer, living in wealthy ease at the
place which bears his name. Several
years ago she was married to William
Francis Hull, then cashier of the Ulster
Bank, at Belfast, and the proprietor of
n manor of 100 acres at Killyleigh, near
Belfast. Soon after their marriage,
which was not one wholly approved by
her father, Ter husband attached him.
self to club. and soon became so ad-
dicted to gambling and drinking that
accumulating debts end the threatened
dismissal from his position caused him
to abscond to this country, where she
followed him soon after. He had saved
from the wreck of his fortune some
$40, 600, but he continued his dissipa.
tion and gambling in New York, and
squalid poverty soon drove them to
apartments in garret.
Then came struggle for which
neither was prepared, and, after some
weeks of deprivation and goadipg want,
the husband caused the three children
to he placed on Wards Island, and
then deserted his wife and fled to Can.
ada, which is the last she heard of him.
Mrs. Hull, being an accomplished mu'
sician and quite proficient enough to
teach it, sought for employment as a
tutor. But she was friendless and with.
out endorsement of any kind. Hence
she accepted the distasteful occupation
of a saloon pianist, and while in that
vocation she was arrested. She claims,
however, that she had been but a weeh
in the place, and knew nothing of itf
bad reputation. Judge Lambert, be
lievlng her representations, has written
to her father a detailed account of his
daughters troubles, also to Robert
Heron, of Arlington House, Killy
leigh, who is her brother-in-law, and
one of the wealth1est men of the county
Down. In the meantime, however, he
would like to have the assistance o.
benevolent people in securing for her 8
proper place to stay until her friends
are heard from.