Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-13
1 PL9IFUL STORY.
How P, city Minnie Rose Parsons vas
Enticed Away from Home by the
Promise Of Becoming a Star.
A Lieutenant Us IN. Navy Takes Her to
sPubiic HouSe-They LiTs as Nan
and Wise-Ho Deserts Her.
Ashs M ed to Il .turn a ON =, She J oips Duff's
Opera Company at SIS a week
E0uad by Ger nother.
AMFuLIY STAGE srRuCE


NEW YORK, April u Minnie Rose
Parsons, the eighteen-year-old gill fol-
whose abduction from her home in ALE
ghepV City, Pa, January 81 LAST LIeuten.
ant Rysn Of the United States navy and J
Il. Mead, young society man, are noW
under arrest st Plttsburg in default OF
$1,000 bail each, was found by two of In
sptcGCr Byrnes' detectives in boarding
house on Clinton place yesterday. Sac
was At once taken TO police hasdq1sr-
tiers where, after Two hours patient ques,
tloripg, he succeeded in gettirg ner TO
tell her story. Sac said: "My desresl
friend IL Carrie Hamilton, who lives IN
PIttsOuIg. Some days prior to my leav-
ing home I was Introduced oy her 20 two
young men who were named to me J. P
Marshall and J. Il. Mead. l understood
from Carrie that they were
THEATRICAL AGENTS.
All my life have lODged t0 be en- &C.
tress, and this may account in measure
for the fancy took 10 the men whom
believed might help me On in the pro-
tession intended to adopt"
By specious promises and assuran ces
that he would obtain for her q leading
position in New York IS an actress, Mar.
shall, or Lieut.. Ryan, his real name, got
her to leave home. Carrie determined to
do the same, but after they had started
she became homesick and returned
Minnie would not turn back, however
and BY Rams direction she went to
Trenton, n. J., and registered at ths
Trenton House az MIS- Marshall Sne
reached there ut =. m. and he arrived in
the afternoon. They occupied the same
room, as man ard wife. They remained
| there few days and then came on 10 This
city. Ryan took the trusting girl
TO Ar INFAMOUS HoUsK
on Blocker street wnere they registered
on the On Of last February as Mr. aud
Mrs. Marshall. They were assigned tC
room 81 st the weekly rate Of S. Nd one
tasked them any questions and most Of
the time they remained in their room,
only going out to their meals and on two
or three occasions they spent the evening
out. Ryan tired Of his victim in ten days
after their arrival in this city. He gave
! her $40 bill and kissed her sFac.
tionstely one morning, telling her he had
to go down town on business, but that
he would return In the afternoon. This
Vas the last she say Of him. With q
breaking heart she waited day after day
A stranger, exiIed from home by her OWE
action, she tried to hear from the msp
who had iured her away, but no tidings
came from him. He had returned to his
old haunts in Plttsourg, where he was
stationed TO inspect the ormor for the new
ironclads of the United States navy.
Starvation finally
STARING HER IN THE FACE
the unfortunate girl was obliged to do
something.
Sne Wens out and after a Wearisome
search got position In store at salary
that barely sufflced to give her enough to
est. What to do she could NOT imagine
until she thought Of utiiiz ng her voice.
She belonged choir in Pittsburg
She went to q theatrical sgency aud Sc
GU ed situation at salary of SIS q
week to sing minor parts with Duf's
Opera Company. The company went to
Boston, where they Played for two week.
and she made such coed impress
sion that her salary WAS doubled when
the company returned to New York and
daily she has been rehearsing her role
AT THE STANDARD THEATRE.
What were her parents doing all this
timer
Searching the country for her.
Through fesr, or come other reason,
Miss Hamilton did not tell what she
knew, xnd of course tie man kept dis
creetly silent. Broken hearted, Mrs
Parsons faslly came to New York and
called on Inspector Byrnes. She told
him OF her loss. After dilIgent search
Ills men found her. While relating her
experiences to the insp ctor Miss Par
SONS wept frequently, but when he sskeC
her, "now, my girl, WON'T you return to
your homt?' ste asked, "oh, Will they
take me back?" "Y.l?"
Then she buIss into passion
ate strain CT tears and consent
ed to go Rome. Accompanied by Detec-
tive Sheldon she left on the O'Clock
train for PIttsburg. She clsims that she
never knew thst MsrchalPs real name
was Ryan, or that he was Dav.l officer.
She eXonerated Meade snd Miss Hamil
ton Of Any blame for her leaving home
She is q beautiful blonde, and YVES eigh
teen years old last Saturday.
MINNIE PARSONS FOUND.
PIrTsBURG, PA April l2.-Minnie Par.
soDs, the Allegheny girl who was abtuct i
by Easiga Ryan of the United S .ates Navy
aud taken to New YORK, arrived home this
morning in company with New York de-
techves.
DENIES HER FIRST STORY.
Subsequently Miss Parsons consented
to be interviewed. She denied that RYAN
had deserted her in New York or mad
taken her to an infamous den. Said she:
"He took me to q respectable boarding
hnfr md 10 4trrx
away. He did not desert me. He always
trea,ed me like s gentleman.
1 never wss better treated, and he gave
me all the money he could spare. / do
not blame Mr.. RYAN for feeling angry at
such stories, for 1 am angry myself. l
want to see Mr.. Ryan and we will settle
our affairs ourselves" 10 conclusion
she said she had made hit and was 60
ing back to New YORK to enter on her en-
gagement next Monday. Her stage name
WAS Bertha Linn.