St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-02
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The Daily Hulett habeas corpus case is to
decide who shall have the custody of the girl
Lille stRosecrans, " daughter of Frank Daily.
Daily's wife died when the child was very
Young and she was given into the keeping
Of Mrs. Hulett, who was then Huldah E.
Stinson. who adopted the child
Daily claims now that Mrs. Hulett is
an improper person to have charge
of his daughter. who is thirteen years old,
and about a month ago applied for q writ of
habeas corpus, which was granted. On the
night of the day the writ was granted he for
chilly abducted the child from the house of
Mrs Hulett, but subsequently returned her
to the court, and she was committed to the
care of the sheriff.
The court room yesterday morning
was crowded with witnesses, and
spectators, many of whom were ladies. Sea-
grave Smith appeared for Mrs Hulett; Judge
Shaw and Albert Knittle for Mr.. Daily.
Mrs. HuIett was first examined. She ties
tilted, substantially, that she took the child
when it was four days old; when it was two
years old its father signed REIMBURSEMENT
to all claims; the child hau been sick num-
Der of times and she had bought medicine
and nursed it; sickness prevented the girl
from going to school regularly; concerning
the charge that she abducted the
girl from the school at st. Paul,
she acknowledged that she went there with
her brothers and took the child. The sisters
had denied her the privilege of seeing the girl
and she did not desire a separation. She
afterwards took her to Iowa. and dyed her
fhn OH tr-ich
and partly for disguise. Daily came to see
his daughter several times, and claimed the
reason that he was not allowed to see her was
because the child was at a neighbours play
ing. Concerning the abduction of the girl
by Daily, Mrs. Hulett said that man came
to the house in the afternoon
claiming he was real estate agent. He
came again at O'Clock in the evening and
asked to see the little girl. She told Lille
to run out of the back door. Afterwards
heard the child scream and saw Daily put
ting her into hack in front Of the house.
Mrs Hartwick, neighbor OF Mrs. Hulett,
testified that she witnessed the abduction.
She saw four men one Of whom had the girl
in his arms, she demonstrated with them but
without avail.
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is thirteen years old, bright and somewhat
precocious; she was very neatly dressed and
seemed to enjoy the sensation created.
1t was easy to see which side she preferred,
for she spoke of Mrs. Hulett as ''mama' and
of her father as ''Mr. Daily" she substan
tiated much of Mrs. Hulett's testimony and
said she did not want to go to her father.
She said when her father took
her from Mrs Hulett's house that
he held his hand over her mouth and swore
at her. She also said he struck her once
when he was taking her to Chicago.
Detective Quinlan, who was a patrolman
on the beat where Mrs. Hulett was alleged to
have kept Il disreputable house on Western
avenue His evidence simply went TO show
that girls of an immoral character had re-
sorted to her restaurant. and that he, as
an officer, had been compelled to drive them
away.
IN THE AFTERNOON
Frank Daily, the father was put on the
stand. He testified that when Lilies
mother died that he was living on the Rum
river and could not get home before she
died. The child was then with this woman
and he saw it the day after the funeral He
the woods again and it was three months
before he saw her again. There was no
price or agreement but Mrs. Hulett
continued to keep Lille and he
paid her $400 in all. at the time he signed
the release ne had given Mrs. Hulett $500
more than she was entitled to. He took
mortgage for the 5000. Afterward she wanted
to sell the property and he released her.
Three years ago he wanted his daughter to
go TO school and paid for three months tu-
ition at a good school. During
this time the child was only sent
about three weeks. After this
Mrs. Hulett moved into Tenth avenue north.
year ago last fall parties told him the child
was running loose and should be sent to
school. He bought clothes for her and ar
ranged for her to stay at the Sisters school
in st. Paul. The sisters found out Mrs. HUI
lett was an improper person, and would not
let her see Lille. Mrs. Hulett after
wards took the child away from
there and took her to Iowa.
july stranger came to his store and told
him his daughter was running around with
one OF the woman's divorced husbands,
man named Thomas. he inquired and
found Thomas had taken Lille over on the
GdSb slut OuG GFGnluS anu udu stayed IN q
house with her over night, near
the Catholic cemetery. On the
night of the abduction he was at
the back door of the house He caught her
and carried her to the hack; took her to his
home and then drove to Eden Paradise and
took the train for Chicago, when he placed
her in q convent to be educated Had never
said he would XIII his daughter but had said
hn urft1d roth
the hands of Mrs. Hulett He had
heard numerous reports to the effect that
men came to the house of Mrs. Hulett's at
all hours of the night; that there were i'm
proper women there, etc. When asked who
told him this he gave the names, that of q
man named Gallagher who said he had slept
with Mrs. Hulett; man named Murphy,
who keeps saloon in the
neighborhood, and two neighbors, Sutherland
and Fcnners; he also mentioned Miss
Black.
d. B. Sutherland testified that he knew
Mrs. Hulett when her name was Thomas
three years ago when she lived on tenth
street. She bore bad reputation. She had
two female boarders who were sup
posed TO be of bad repute. He
did not speak of his own knowledge but of
what WAS currently rumored about in the
neighborhood.
Albert Marsh, an expoliceman, was called,
but as he had only seen Mrs. Hulett twice in
three years and testified from hear say his
evidence was excluded as incompetent
L. SidmOre. and ex-polieeman, used to
have Il beat on Western avenue where Mrs.
Huleit kept a candy shop and restaurant.
Mrs. Hulett also kept rooms TO rent on the
second floor of building several doors dis
tant from where she lived. Had seen men
go in and out of her place at
night; also hack there at night: had seen
Lille, the girl, running ground with girl
calico Annie who was supposed to be kept