Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-25
Taken to a New York Police Sta.
 ton.
Wandering in the Streets Of New Yol

Wandering in the Streets Of New York Two Runaway Girls.
 New York police officer found two young New Haven girls named respectively Kitty Hunter, aged 16, and Minnie Hull, aged 12 or 13, wandering about in that city and ap- bearing to be vagrants, last Saturday night They were destitute and were sent to police headquarters, where the matron took charge of them. The Police Inspector questioned the oldest girl, who told remarkable story, which the police officer thought almost too large to swallow. Her story and subsequent events are given In the New York Times of yesterday as follows ''She said she was or phan, and had been adopted by the family of Capt. c. c. Hull, master of the schooner Mary G. Beattie, who was the father of her companion. She was led astray by her step-brother about a year ago. and since that time she has not lived moral life. She induced Minnie to come with her to this city last Friday, where she believed Captain HulPs schooner was lying intending to return on the schooner to New Haven. When the girls arrived here they could not find the schooner. As they were penniless, they walked the streets on Friday night Minnie sold a new pair of shoes that
 \ she wore on the following morning for a dol
 | lar and bought pair of slippers for fifty I cents. They fared well on this sum, and on Saturday evening, while strolling about the
 Battery, they met two men, who induced 1 them to take sail in a small boat. They re-
 ! mained on the water until after nightfall. I While they were in the boat one of the men | committed an assault on the youngest girl
 | After the girls were landed they wandered
 ! about until they fell into the hands of the
 ! police Minnie corroborated the story of
 | her companion. Inspector Thorne detailed
 \ Dntaa and of fba ltT-al
 | office, in search for the wretch, and William
 ! Geary, a watchman employed at the new ! barge office, was identified as the man by Kitty Hunter, who accompanied the officers during the search. Geary is thirty-two years of age He is married and lives with his wife and four children at No. 10 Rose street He denied all knowledge of the affair, but was positively identified by both of the girls He will be taken to court to-day, and in the meantime the relatives of the injured girl have been notified to come on to this city and take charge of her."
 The little Hull girl has been with her aunt in this city, although she has a father. The police say that she has been repeatedly driven out of the house by her father while he was under the influence of drink, and that Kittie Hunter was living in the lower part of the city with her mother and grandmother, and her veracity is much questioned. Measures are to be taken by the police to have the Hull girl sent to the Reform School on her return here. They give sad reports of the tempta- tions and evil influences which assail many young girls in this city, of which the case in question is an Illustration.
 Opening the Bids for the Addition to the Hospital at Middletown.
 The opening of the bids for the construc- tion of the various parts of the additional building for the Insane Hospital at Middle town was postponed from 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock yesterday. At the latter hour the commissioners, Dr. M. Storrs, w. J. Atwater and c. G. R. Vinal met at the Allyn House and began the rather serious task of opening and comparing about forty sealed proposals.
 ! The sum appropriated by the Legislature was $130, ,000, and some apprehension has been felt that the building as designed would re- l quire larger sum for its..completion. In
 ! this case the bids would be returned and af-
 l ter making the necessary alteration in the
 \ plans new set of proposals would be called
 ! for. The number of bidders proved so great
 \ that much time was necessarily consumed in
 going through the list, and at o'clock a
 large number of envelopes had 1fot yet been
 examined, and no idea of the decision could
 | be formed