The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-24
A HOARY.HEADED VILLAIN.
How He Entrapped . Young Girl Into Mat
rimony-The Old Reprobate Frustrated

How He Entrapped . Young Girl Into Mat.
rimony-The Old Reprobate Frustrated
Mt Last.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin
A case of vicious assault in which a
sturdy gray-haired man of 5Owas assail-
ant, and fair, fragile girl of 16 the
victim, was witnessed on q recent even
ing by chance passers through upper
Mason Street.
The girl in the case is an orphan of
French parentage, who has long resided
in this city, and who is heiress to a
small property at the present time in
the hands of her guardian. The old
man husband, reputed to be of sporting
prOclivities, has long had his home in
New York, but of late has made head
quarters at Fargo, Dakota, Davenport,
Iowa, and in Milwaukee. A few weeks
since the young girl left this city, pur-
posing to visit friends in Davenport.
Shortly after her arrival there she first
met the aged chap who now claims her
as his wife, and for some cause not yet
fully developed (unless it may have
been to secure control of the money
which she will have in coming of age)
he determined, by fair means or foul, to
marry her.
As preliminary to this purpose he is
reported to have intercepted letters
passing between the young girl and her
accepted lover, whose home is at Fargo,
Dakota; and finally to have caused
open rupture between the young people
by means of forged kilograms to the
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young girl, ignorant of her lovers sud-
den arrangement, and determined to
learn whether it was with proper founda-
ton or not, promptly left Davenport for
the North, intent upon finding the young
man and learning from his own lips
what had "gOne awry."
When the girls present husband
learned that she had left Davenport with
the probable intent of seeking her lover,
he telegraphed to the Sheriff of Ramsay
County ut St. Paul that the girl was
runaway, under age, and asked that she
be arrested and held by the st. Paul
officers. To this telegram he signed the
name of the girls lawful guardian. BY
a brief word from friends in Davenport,
the girl learned that some One-her real
guardian, she supposed-was after her;
and, possessing herself of a suit of boys
she furnished the disguise
which prevented her arrest in st. Paul.
In her boys buds she went from st.
Paul to Detroit, MIMI, and ut the latter
place she again assumed proper apparel,
going thence to MOOrhead, where she
had old-time friends residing. In all
her journeying, however, she failed to
meet the lover for whom she was search
ing.
Within few days after her arrival at
the old gray-beard, who all
unknown to her had been the cause of
her accommodating trouble, reached
MOorhead also. He paid assiduOus
court to the girl and she was for few
days much in his company; though, as
she claims, entirely unsuspiciOus of his
purpose to make her his wife. At last,
at a social gathering in Moorhead, the
willy old man took the hostess of the
evening in his confidence, and by some
of lucre, or other strong in
she was persuaded, when
wine was to be served to the company,
to allow the old man to drug the glass
intended for the young woman.
Shortly after the potion had been
taken, the aged Adonis conducted the
young girl to his carriage, with the in
tent, as announced to her, of taking her
to the home of friends over in Fargo,
with whom she was to spend the night.
Soon after entering the carriage, the
girl became partially unconscious from
the drug, and the old man, having pre-
viously prepared himself with a license,
drove to the residence of Justice of
the Peace in the suburbs of MOOrhead,
and making the excuse that the lady,
suffering from an injured foot, was un-
able to walk, prevailed upon the accom-
Justice to marry them as
they sat in the carriage; thus avoiding
exposure of the fact that the girl was in
a half unconscious state.
With his bride secured, the old man
returned to the residence where the
evening had been spent socially, and
his marriage certificate, asked
the hospitality of the people of the
house for his bride and himself during
the night. The wife, who, as noted
above, is reported to have been cogni-
zant of the dragging of the wine, con-
sented; but, her husband, innocent of
any wrong to the girl, and noticing that
she was suffering from something akin
to partial intoxication, refused to enter
tain the couple as man and wife; and
refused also to let the old man take his
wife from the house.
Recovering during the night from the
effects of her dosing, the young woman
when shown the certificate,
that she had no recollection of having
been married, and besought her friends
to send her to Milwaukee, before her
husband of a night could claim her.
The gentleman, at whose house she was,
interested himself in her behalf and
started her for Milwaukee on the follow
inc day, and before her new-made hus-
band had learned of her contemplated
flight.
Missing his victim from Moorhead
and Fargo, the old chap came to Mil
waukee, rightly suspecting that his
young wife would put herself under the
protection of friends here. He arrived
the latter part of last week, soon learned
bor whereahout. and. communicating