Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-30
o 10 WANDER.
A Kentucky Girl Makes Her Way to
Nashville to a Poor Purpose.
She Finds Protection with the Police
Department and Awaits
the Result.

Officers Kerrigan and Hawkins, while
taking the census in the Seventh Ward on
Wednesday, stopped at the residence of a
negro woman on Rolling Mill bill and
there made a discovery which interrupted
for a time the work in which they were
engaged. TIER attention was attracted by
a fair young white woman who seemed to
be living with the negress and they in
quired for an explanation OF her presence
there. The girl told such a mixed story
that their suspicious were aroused and
they thought it advisable to conduct her to
the station house.
She was there introduced to the Chief Of
Police and subjected to some of his kind
but rigid inteTrOgatories. Again her story
was at first somewhat selfcontradictOry.
She gave her name at the outset as one
thing, and afterEards admitted that this
was fictitious, and gave what she avoWed
was her real name. She then related TO the
Captain the following account Of herself:
She was brought up in a certain town of
the neighbOring State Of Kentucky, and
had been dependent upon some Of her
uncles for support. They were prominent
men Of that locality. Last Saturday she
obtained four or five dollars from D of
them, representing that she wanted to
make a visit to some friends four or five
miles away. She took the train and, in
stead of getting off at the designated place,
came on to Nashville. Her dependence
upon her relatives was ~diSagreeable to her
and h came to Nashville with the inten-
ton Of getting employment, so that she
could make her own support. Upon
her arrival she went to one of the hotels
and sent for q gentleman with whom she
was acquainted. He paid her a brief visit
al the hotel, and promised to secure her a
place TO stay. Sunday afternoon he called
again for about ten minutes, and on Mon
day a negro woman called for her and con
| Quoted her to the house on Rolling Mill
Hill, where the officers found her on
Wednesday. She supposed that her male
friend intended that she should make that
place her temporary abode.
This story was only suggestive Of mys-
teIy, and il was decided to keep the young
woman under surveillance till a thorough
investigation could be made. She is now
at the hotel where she first put up, under
sufficient protection.
The case was laid before the Mayor, who
yesterday sent a telegram to one of tie
parties named by the girl as her uncles, re-
ferring to her by the name she had last
given. a reply was promptly received, re-
questing that she be kept under restraint,
and stating that the author Of the message
would proceed 10 Nashville by the next
train, to look after her interests. He was
expected to come on the 6:25 train last
evening, but failed to make his appearance.
He is confidently looked for by the first
train this morning.
We have suppressed all names Of parties
and places because as yet nothing is posi-
lively known beyond suspicious circum-
stances, which may possibly be capable Of
an explanation that will vindicate the fair
name Of those mOst deeply cOucerned. The
family in Kentucky whom the girl so way
Wsrdly abandoned is of excellent social
standing. She states that her masculine
friend in this city formed her acquaintance
while visiting their home in Kentu,ky.
She IS about 20 years Of age and Of very
| agreeable personnel.