The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-08-04
Axewnl Outrage.
Can such things be, and ov srcofne as
Lake sum fperis cloud,
Without Quar- special woR3er

without Quar- special wonder
Last evening little boy and girl I
ran iGto the cigar store ia Bogel's and {
begged of the man ia charge that be .
would let thrIn hide and not let a man, I
wuo was after them, catch them. 10 /
4 moment Il man wect by who WIS the 1
cue they meant. He returned ia /
few minutes aud discovered the ehil- !
dreo. who ran out and jumped on
board OF street ear that was passing, !
and begged the driver to protecttbem.
The man got the girl of the car aud
she broke away ami ran TO the ear
again, " hen the driver protected her
and took her up with him. The peo-
pie who saw the occurrence on Main
street were shocked at the sight,
though they did not understand the
true state of affairs. AT this time,
our reporter was ut the ealaboose, and
while talking To the chief of police,
crowd was seen approaching. IL
proved to be Officer Alki aud special
policeman Hsmei, VINO had man in
charge. They were followed by n
crowd Of men, and the girl aud broth
er. Our reporter asked the girl what
was the matter: ''She said that the
man Was her husband, and he was
trying to get her to go to the Gay.'
Our reporter asked her name, she
said IL was Mary Jane Perry, and
that she was thirteen years Old, and
had been married a gear. The child
was crying, and said she did not want
to go with the man. Our reporter had
/ beard of this case before, but il seem ed
10 him to be impossible that so young
/ a child could be married, for she was a
mere child and did not ioos 10 be as
old a. che claims to be. Even at her
I age she could have been but twelve
when married. She said she was
married by a minister. She had no
home and had been staying with the
/ family Of Mr.. Hall, who drives street
ear. Au elderly gentlemen uamed
Noble, who lives on Film street, of
/ FER Il To take the child home with him
and she gladly consented. She is now
in good hands. The crowd about the
| prisoner, whose name is kimzie, were
very indignant aud some strong re-
marks were made; he was defiant and
said that he married the girl. TIE
child is no more fit to occupy the posi-
ton of wife than an infant in arms.
What We are astonished to learn is
that the parties are legally married.
The girls mother, who is 10 Jail, had
given her consent. A license had been
obtained, aud stranger yet, to say, the
parties were maTried by christian
minister. How clergyman could
have performed the rites that bound a
girl of twelve to a man in the neigh
borhood of thirty IL they had a
dozen licenses--is something We cam
not see Into. And law that viii al.
low children OF such tender age to be
married, en- WITH the consent Of
their parents, should be stricken from
the books. The child Is not cid enough
and Is quiet, modest looking little
thing. Her little brother, who was
with her when the man attempted TO
take her OFT the car, was very indig.
nRnt and showed fight. While the
parties are man and wife, still we
know of no law which can force the
girl 10 live with him against her
wishes, and as she expresses fear oil
him, the law which committed the
outrage of allowing them to be joined
together in wediock, should nov step
in and prevent the further outrage OF
the molestatioD Of her person, till she
arrives ut the age of puberty, when
che can make a rational decision as tG
whether she desires to live with him
or not.
kimZie was locked up, and 1t was re-
marked by some person standing by,
that be had better go in, as ne was
safer there than elsewhere.