Milford chronicle., 1889-04-05
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How 1t Happened That He Did Not Go to

How 1t Happened That He Did Not Go "a
California Alone.
81 never come to Chicago but think Of a
romantic incident in the life Of a former res
/ ident Of this city, said George II. Latimer
few days ago in the Leland hotel IF you
/ want a story / viii give it to you. You may
call this chestnut, or perhaps even a cocoa
nut, for the time the incident happened was
/ i9 1862. ! was then boarding at the Metro
I politan, in New York kept at that time by
my old friend, Lewis Leland, here, and the
| judge-he is the Chicago man the story treats
/ Of, you must let me skip his name for rea-
s0ns you viii soon discover-used to come to
New York frequently. At the time I speak
of he came almost on purpose to induce me
to go to San Francisco with him Well, l
couldn't 60 just then, and when / told him
so, he said: Well, | am going TO start for
California on Monday night, and / am not
going alone, either He meant by that, l
suppose, that he would vet succeed in Coax
ing me to go He did not do that, nor did
he 60 alone, as you will sec. Saturday night
came, and the judge went out in the evening
to make some calls. Absut midnight was
awakened from sleep and found policeman
at the door with a letter from the Judge On
the way home he had got into some row with
drunken patrolman, and had been pulled in,
When reached the station he was the hot
test judge you ever saw. but soon fixed
things so he could so into the captains room
and be more comfortable. On the way TO
this room, going through the long corridor,
we were startled by the most piteous cry Of
anguish and supplication ever heard in my
life, and the most solemn protestations Of
innocence. A ring Of truth in the tone
struck me f0rcibly, and / asked the attend
ant who it was He carelessly replied that
it was some girl brought in for stealing at
Niblo's Garden. Having made the judge
fairly comfortable, / was going over to the
hotel to get some brandy and a lunch when
met a railroad man knew well He said
he had been robbed 10y girl that evening at
Niblos, and had come in TO sec if she had
given up the money. So this is the accuser
Of the piteous voice. l said to him, and then
explained that had heard the girl protest
her innocence in such way that could not
believe her guilty
"Nihlo's Garden in lSG2, said Mr Latimer,
lighting fresh cigar, was just next to the
Metropolitan, and | asked Mir. Accuser to
come with me and talk it over. The more be
talked the less believed in tho girls guilt
and when we got thore, knowing the watch
man Of the theatre well, | persuaded him to
let Us in. Ny companion showed me where
he sat. The seats there at that time were
very peculiar, having an arm like a sofa, all
being upholstered and down in the crevice
between the arm and seat found the mans
pocketbook You may be sure it did not
take us long TO get back TO the station, and !
soon accomplished for the girl what had for
the judse-got permission for her to sit in the
captains room. It was nearly o'clock ON
Sunday morning now. and only stayed long
enough TO hear the girl tell story Of want
and hunger for mother, a crippled brother
and herself, before she accepted position she
was hardly able to I'LL She said one or two
bitter things to the man who had been the
cause OF her arrest but after all, in every
word, proved herself n lady. Inoticed that
the judge, vino, by the way, was a widower,
watched the young woman with keen in
terest, vet, l mast confess. l was a good deal
astonished Mt what transpired the next day
The prisoners We're, OF course, discharged at
the opening of court, and l did not see his I
iudgeslip again until evening. Then he came
TO my room, said he had been making in /
Illries about the girl and had verified all her /
statements, and wound up by asking the use
OF my room to be married In Sunday in the I
captains room had done the work begun by I
and as the judge rolled away in a /
'ab that evening with his bride, he said: i 1
.oii You would not 60 alone. '"-Chicago [
Herald