Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-16
sHE CAUGHT RIM.
A Determined Girl who wouIdn't be Tilted
Chasing Her Recreant Lover to Brad.


A Determined Girl who wouIdn't be Tilted
Chasing Her RecreanI Lover to Brad.
ford.
Inspector McAleese, Of the First police
district, received q letter last night from .
woman whom he says is deserving of great
credit for asserting the rights Of her sex to q
fulfllment Of the pledges made by suitors.
He said that she came to Pittsburg as Miss
Ida Henry, of F1ndlay, some six weeks ago
In search Of james Fennessy, whose people
are highly respected residents of borough
within 16 miles of Pittsburg, and who is
himself glasstlower. The names are 6c-
titious, as a wedding has since obliterated
all the enmity in the case, and the Inspector
is particularly averse to creating family dis
turbances.
She was handsome, well-buiIt girl of
about 20 years of age, and when she called
upon the Inspector first for information
regarding her recreant lover pair Of deep,
blue eyes snapped with fire, and her voice
as clear as bell, showed determination
to catch up with the fugitive. ''I'll find
him." SAID she, "if it takes up my whole
life to do so.'
tor, as be mentally congratulated himself
upon not being the object of so determined
a chase. She related her tale, saying she
had first met Fennessy in large boarding
house in Findlay, where she. was engaged
in washing dishes. Her account showed
that several Of the young men boarding in
the establishment, were suitors for her
hand, but she listened with favor to none
until Fennessy volunteered TO assist, her in
washing dishes. The warmth of the water
in which their hands met in the exercise of
the mutual work, made both their hearts as
soft as the dishrags with which the dishes
were wiped, and the old, old story was told
again.
The Inspector was at loss what to do,
but entertained the young woman with
some good advice, during which she grItted
her teeth, and said if Mr.. Fennessy did not
employ the services of q minister on short
notice after she found him, there would be
work for someone, but whether the police or
the Coroner she left to be inferred. She
stayed for few nights in woman's tempo
rary home, in which she said there were
neither bedclothes sufficient to keep her
warm, nor lights with which 10 dress herself
In the morning at the hour she was COM
PEELED to rise. She had been recommended
to this place by Superintendent NJ. J. Dean,
Of the Anti-Cruelty Society. Tiring Of this
sort of hospitality she abandoned her search
on the Southside where she heard the young
man worked at Chambers & McKee's glass
house, and under Inspector McAleese's ad-
vice searched Braddoek, McKeesport and
several other surroundings towns with no
result.
In the meantime the Inspector had re-
ceived an intimation that the much-wanted
young man was at Bradford, and when
the girl returned, told her that the oil
regions would be good place to prospect.
Without cent in her pocket, but with q
telegraphic introduction to the Bradford
Chief of Police, she started, and her letter
to the Inspector announces her wedding last
week, saying she could not find priest to
perform the ceremony, but did find minis
ter, was now lawful wife, and emphasized
the statement by signing her name Mrs.
James Fennessy."
"I'l bet" said the Inspector. in conclud-
ing his story, "that she will make him q
good wife aud makea man of him. She has
grit and good common sense, and il more
girls in her position would act as she did
we would have fewer cases of a certain class
than we have to deal with now."