St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
A GAY -Lo7HAR|o.
An Elopement That ConYulsed the
West End.
FOUR CHILDREN DESERTED
BY william Allen to Elope With
Annie Hoben, a Clerk at
Goodfell0w's.

A large and juicy scandal is agitating
the West end, and the Eighth ward is
torn from center to circumference as a
consequence. Though the affair took
place some days ago, the next-dOOr
nelghb0rS were in utter ignorance OF it
until within the past twenty-fOur hours,
| and that otherwise quiet and demure
section is all the more excited and out
ragged over it. TWAS canvassed all over
the locality, in every household, yester-
day, and was fruitful theme on every
motor train last night.
THE PARTIES.
Annie HOben came here from Grand
Rapids, Wis.,, last spring, and secured a
position with H. S. GoOdfellOw q Co.
der duties were mainly to attend to
mail orders and correspondence, but she
was frequently called to the cloak de-
| partment, where her fine figure came
into play in showing wraps to lady Gus
| toners. She was fine-lOOking and
odest-seeming girl and quite favor
lite at the house, in the Eighth ward,
where she boarded. But Annie is one
| o. the parties to the scandal.
William +. Allen is married man,
whose place of residence is 3104 First
! avenue south. His wife is perfect
lady and he is the father of four chill
dren. He is the Don Juan of this tale
now narrowing up the soul of the
Eighth ward. Last year he was the
senior member of the firm of Allen &
Demarais, grOcers at Nicollet ave-
nue. and Thirty-first street, but
! Allen did not suit the sturdy
honesty of Mr.. Demarais, and the latter
bought him out. Since then Allen has
done nothing, though he spoke vaguely
of going to Canada. At this time Miss
Hnhnn arT1ip No.
and Allen made her acquaintance.
Though drinking man, and no beauty,
| Allen is
EVIDENTLY A WASHER"
and had been observed ON the motor
trains throwing languishing glances at
various young ladies, but without ap-
parent effect. No one had regarded
| him as vicious and his name was never
on the tongue of gossip. 1t was gener-
ally known that Miss Hoben was be-
trothed to an estimable young man at
her home, so there was no surprise
when, before Christmas, she resigned
to Grand Rapids to be married. About
the same time Allen sent his wife to
California for her health and himself
disappeared, and for two weeks nothing
was heard of any of them. A short
| time ago, John Barringer, brakeman
on the Iowa division of the Milwaukee
road, mentioned, in the hearing of a
| friend of Allen, that he had seen Allen
and his bride at Lime Spring, OIL their
wedding trip. His description of the
"bride'' led his hearers to suspect some
turn of Mrs. Allen from California was
| it known that William Allen and Annie
HOben
HAD EIOPED.
They had left Minneapolis in opposite
| directions and met at Lime Spring.
while Mrs. Allen was in Cali
fornia. With the return of the
latter the entire story came out, shock
| ing and horrifying the neighbOrhOOd
and spreading rapidly. 1t is said Allen
| had something like $4,000 when he
| started and that Annie wrote back 'she
| was rich and they loved each other" so
she was satisfied; but it now appears he
has lost OF squandered everything. The
| pair is believed to be in Kansas City,
| from whence Allen wrote the other
| day, telling his wife he had spent his
last cent for the postage on the letter.
The straits they were in are shown by
| the fact that
| . THE ERRING GIRL
| deceived her father into giving her
little money. She wrote that she was
fepentanC ana wanted to go home, but
| had contracted some debts. Her father
| met her with 500. and waited while she
went out to pay some creditors, but she
rejoined her lover and disappeared. 1t
was then Aliens turn to make raise.
He sent word to his wife to re-
| turn by way of Kansas City,
where he met her. She knew nothing
| of the elopement, and gave him what
money she had and went home, while
cuisines detained him until the next
train," which never came.
Mrs. Allen says she has shed the last
tear for him and will probably follow
his advice and secure the divorce she is
entitled tn