The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-14
SOCIAL SENSATION.
A GIRL ESCAPES FROM HOME

A GIRL ESCAPES FROM HOME
And Comes to Chevenne After q Prom
inent Business Mana 10th
er's Appealing Letter.
Tho Particulars
For several days past the LEADER
has noticed items in the Deadwood pa
pers referring to the theft of money by
a girl named Annie Brennan, from her
mother, a widow residing in Deadwood.
Officers were sent after her, and she
was finally captured In Nebraska while
on her way to Sidney. She would have
returned quietly with the detectives
had she not been advised by a fellow
traveller not to go without a requisi-
tion. As the officers had none they
allowed the girl to depart.
That was the last we heard Of her
until yesterday. She comes into notice
first through a letter received by Mar
shall Ryan, which reads as follows:
Marshal of Cheyenne-DEAR SIR i:
I am a widow lady with several chill
dren, and my daughter Annie ran away
and took over $3.50 from me. I think
she has gone to Cheyenne to see a young
man who thought q great deal Of her.
She will probably visit the postoffice
every day, if she has not gone out of the
city. 1 wish you would keep watch of
her and let me know her stopping place.
She is about 16 years Of age and wears
a white felt hat, and generally walks
very rapidly j; is Of dark complexion,
keen eyes, and q rather small girl.
If you are a man of family you will
appreciate a mothers feelings and assist
me. l do not wish to have one of my
children 90 to ruin. I have some little
property, and it will take me some time
to settle up and go down there. Please
answer this as soon as possible. The
man she eloped to is a prominent bust
ness man of Cheyenne. Yours, etc.,
SUSAN BRENNAN.
No mi ever appealed to our worthy
city marshal in vain. He set about i'm
mediately, and with his usual skill soon
found the trail of the missing girl. 1t
led into the Office of a prominent law
yer Of this city. The marshal politely
informed her that he had just received
a letter from her mother, and stated its
contents. Annie admitted the truth
of the letter, and proceeded to tell the
marshal her story in a brief though in
telligent manne She said that a GER
tain business man of this city, who re-
Gently had a branch house In Dead.
wood, wooed her affections and she
allowed herself to bask in his love. II
was but a repetition Of the old story
"She loved not wisely but too well. y
She was young +; her mother was Q
widow, and the trouble might break
her heart. Then her lover left Dead
wood and came to Cheyenne. She
wrote him and he answered, telling hel
to come to this city. Lured, like one
led by an ignis fatutts, she obeyed the
request and took her mothers money
and fed, arriving in Cheyenne on Tues
day. She wrote several times to the
young man after arriving here, but
never received an answer. Conscious
that her cauea 4. ,rst sba souoht
advice preparatory to invoking legal aid
out Of her sore trouble. 1t was while
counseling with a lawyer that the mar
shall found her.
a,r.n,,o, De-, hos - .,.h,.;.u
Na'i,ai nyan n"u ~ "u.nis'
and was not requested TO arrest her, ne
repaired to the telegraph office and sent
a dispatch to the prief-stricken mother,
;nform;n, bor of Ann;o,o r-re.once T.
pie -.
tine city, n the name OF tne notei al
which she is stopping.
We withhold the name of the gentle.
man who becomes 90 rnnleasantIv ron.
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nectea win the untortunate event. DC
cause he has not been heard from, and
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