The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-18
A SCOUNDREL IN UNIFORM.
SAD STORY OF MANS oupLlclTv.
a Young Girl Led From Home and Deserted
by Her Betrayer NIso Gets Tired of
Her-A Naval Officers villainy
Catches Up With Him.

PITTsBCRGH, April ll.-LaSt evening Ensign
Ryan, T. S. ", stationed here TO inspect srnor
plate at the Carnegie works, and j. II. Meade
of the Arctic ice company, were arrested,
charged with abducting the seventeen year old
daughter OF ". J. Parsons, prominent citizen
OF Allegheny. The daughter has been missing
ten weeks and search has been made every
where for her. Ryan denies the charge, but
says Miss Parsons had frequently asked ques-
tons about the stage and that he had en-
deavored to dissuade her from going. Since
she left he had received letters from her detail
ing her experience She is now, he says, OF -
Clinton place, New York. The parties were
held in $1,000 bail each Lieut.. Eaton in COM
mand here, has suspended Ryan pending an IN
vestigatiOn, and says ii the charge is sustained
he will be dismissed from the service. II is
rumored that the matter viii be compromised
by Ryan marrying the girl.
The story of the affair as told by Minnie Rose
Parsons TO detectives who found her in New
York to-day is as follows: Ny dearest friend
is Carrie Hamilton, who lives in Plttsburg.
Some days prior to my leaving home | was III
troduced 10y her TO two young men, who were
named to me J. r. Marshall and J. ii. Meade.
l understood from Carrie that they were theat-
rical agents. All my life have longed TO be an
actress and this may account, IN measure, lor
the fancy / took to the men, who believed,
might help me ON in the profession intended
10 adopt"
BY specious promises and assurances that he
would obtain Tor her leading position in New
York rs an actress, Marshall Tor Lieut.. Ryan,
his real name got her 10 consent 10 leave home.
Carrie determined 10 do the same, but after
they had started she became hOme-sick and re-
turned. Minnie would not turn back, however,
and by Ryan's directions she went TO Trenton,
\. j., and registered at the Trenton house as
Mrs. Marshall. She reached there one morning
and he arrived in the afternoon. They occupied
the same room as man and wife. They re-
NAMED there few days and then went TO New
York. Ryan took the trusting young girl 20 an
infamous house, on Bleecl:er-st., where they
registered on the 9TH of las. February as Mr..
and Mrs. Marshall. They were assigned room
6l, ut a weekly rental of So No one asked
them any questions, and most OF the time they
remained in their room, only going out to their
meals, and on two OF three occasions spending
the evening out.
Ryan tired of his victim ten days after their
arrival in New York. He gave her SO and
kissed her atiectiOnately one morning, telling
her he had TO 90 down town on business but
that he would return in the afternoon. That
was the last she of him. With breaking
heart she waited day By day, stranger, exiled
from home by her own action, 70 hear from the
man who had lured her away, but tidings
came from him. He had returned to his old
haunts in Pittsburg, where he was stationed 10
inspect the armor for the new iron-clads OF the
I. - navy CItlNduOn 0udlig staring mex III
the face, the unfortunate girl was obliged to do
something. She went out, and after a weari-
some search got a position in a store. The
salary barely sufTiced 10 give her enough to
eat. Whatto do she could not imagine, until
she thought of utilizing her voice. She be-
lOnged TO choir in Pittsburg. She went TO
theatrical agency and secured situation at a
salary OF So week to sing minor parts with
Dufi7s opera company. The company went
Boston, where they played for several weeks,
and she made such good impression that her
salary was doubled when they returned TO New
York, and daily she has been rehearsing her
role at the Standard theater.
Her parents all this time were searching the
country for her. Through fear or some other
reason Miss Hamilton did not tell what she
knew and of course the men kept discreetly ST
lent. Broken-hearted Mrs. Persons finally went
10 New York and called on Inspector Byrnes.
She told him oil her loss. After a diligent
search his men found her as stated to-day.
While relating her experiences TO the inspector
Miss Parsons wept frequently; but when he
asked her nov my girl. won't you return 10
your homer" she asked, "Oh will they take me
back" YES" Then she burst into a passionate
strain of tears and consented to go home. Ac-
cOmpanied by Detective Sheldon she left on the
Sis train for Pittsburg. She claims that she
never knew that Marshall's real name was Ryan
or that he was a naval officer. She exoner-
ated Meade and Miss Hamilton of any blame for
her leaving home. She is q beautiful blonde
and was eighteen years old last Saturday.