St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-19
The Peculiar Method Employed bya Hoo
sier Girl to Discover Her Fathers
Infdelity.
A Rochester Sensation Caused by the
ElOpement of an Old Couple, Each
Leaving Family.
Minnie Pancoast, a New York Luna
tic, Gets Marrfed--The Case Now
in the Courts.
Pfttsburg's Great Baby Case - A
Prominent Kentuckian's Awk-
ward Predicament.
A Family az Outs.

Special to the Globe
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Feb. 1s.-For
several months there have been quiet
rumOrs tnat the domestic relations Of w.
+. Mick, prominent real estate and money
broker here, have not been of the most
pleasant character imaginable, and his
troubles eliminated some time ago in an
application for divorce from his wife.
which has caused much gossip.
Subsequent developments have in
dicated that the family is
divided against itself and that the
hatred and ill-feelIng are very deep and
bitter. The three daughters sided with
their mother, and the son, himself a
married man. with his father. Last week
young Mick was arrested at the instigation
of his sister, Mrs. BroOks-M Mick. who
charged him with assault and battery, but
she failed 10 establish a case, and it was
dismissed. Since then the mother and
daughters have been keeping a vigilant
espionage on the movements of the male
members Of the family. who lived apart
from them. As result of this there was a
SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
at an early hour this morning. Since his
difficulty with his wife Wick has roomed i'm
block down town. Last night he attended
ance went to his apartments. Shortly after
midnight his eldest daughter. Mrs. Brooks.
drove in closed carriage 10 the station
house, in company with eolOred
man whom she called Sam, and
herself disguised as a cOlOred woman,
her face being blackened and covered with
a veil. She demanded that the officers
should go TO the room of her father and ar
rest hun and a woman, who, she said, was
staying with him over night. The police
did not know at first who she was. but de-
elined to do anything without a warrant.
She then drove 10 the residence of the city
prosecutor and swOre out warrant charging
her father with adultery with an unknown
woman. Next she went to the residence
OF Mayor Denny to get his signature to the
warrant and that official came down stairs
IN HIS NIGHT CLOTHING
and signed the warrant, being assured by
the police sergeant that it was in regular
form. 1t was here that Mrs. Brooks made
known her identity by telling her name
showing by uncOvering her arm that she was
a white woman. After exacting a promise
from the officers 10 serve the warrant she
went home, and they TO Mick's room. They
found him alone in bed, with no evidence of
any female having been around. and with
an open Bible, which he had been reading,
by his bedside. As there was no evidence
to convict him of anything wrong. they left
him, with the promise that he would
appear in court this morning, which he did.
The mayor and prosecetOr promptly dis
missed the case. as there was evidently
nothing in it, and it had been instigated in
pure malice. Strenuous efforts were made
to keep the scandal quiet, on account of the
social position and church relations of the
parties interested, but it got out. The
Micks are one of the oldest ami best known
families in the city.