St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-13
A Young Lady Also Turns Up
Missing at the Same In
teresting Time.
The Inference, Of Course, Is
That Colin Has Skipped
With the Girl,
Leaving a Wife and Two
Children to Shift for
Themselves.

Jonn L. COIN, the South side patrol
man who resigned Feb. %, TO prevent
exposure in a pending investigation be-
fore the police commissions has not been
seen in Minneapolis since Thurs
day, the 2Sth, three days after
he resigned, and his wife is
left without any ready money or means
of support. Several persons are out
small sums that they had lent him, and,
it is said that $500 belonging to the Nora
Lodge, K. P, of which he was treasurer,
is missing.
ANNIE PETERSON,
a young girl with whom Colin Is said to
have been intimate, is also missing, and
the natural suspicion is that an elope-
ment was what called Colin away from
home TWO weeks ago tomorrow. At
the time Colin resigned it became known
that he did so rather than bear the pub
LEFTY Of an investigation in which he
would have been charged with beng
criminally intimate with the same Annie
PETERSON, who is supposed to De with
him now, he having been discovered in
compromising situation with her in a
storm house on Fourth street south
while he was on night duty there. 1t
was at a meeting of the police commits
sion, held Monday, Feb. 3d. that
COINS RESIGNATION
was received and accepted, and on the
following Thursday he packed his grip
and departed. telling his wife that he
was going out to canvass for the Benev-
olent Educational Endowment aSsocia-
ton; that he was going over into Wis
consin and would return ON Saturday.
He left home in the afternoon, and met
nf &c off tta bn
Milwaukee depot on his way to the
train, and told them the same story.
Where he has gone, or whether he ever
intends to return or not, is not known.
lt was nearly week after he
went that his wife and friends began
to suspect anything wrong. The first
event that started an inquiry as to his
whereabouts was when bill for a suit
of clothes from a Washington avenue
came to his house. and his wife vas
unable to tell where he had gone. An
inquiry was instituted. and it was
learned that he had gathered together
QUITE A LITTLE MONEY
before starting. borrowing $50 from a
friend. $50 from his brother. and taking
a considerable sum, the exact amount
of which is still unknown, from the
funds of the X. of p. lodge of which he
was treasurer. 1t was then learned that
Annie Peterson. his companion in the
storm house episode, had not been seen
at her boarding house on Franklin ave-
nue. nor at the laundry where she
worked, on Fourteenth and Washing
ton, since day or two prior to the
time. Colin left. and, putting two and
two together, the injured wife con-
cluded that he had gone with the girl,
whose love had proved too strong for
HOME AFFECTIONS.
Yesterday Mrs. Colin visited the girls
parents at Anoka, where they reside,
and learned that neither Colin nor the
girl had been seen there lately, but she
learned something else that served to
pair were together, for the young
woman's family said that Colin
had been home with their
daughter twice during the past
year, passing her Off as his wife. never
SuSpectlng that he was not single man.
Mrs. Colin has photographs OF both her
handsome husband and his pretty para
mour, and as she sat looking at them
last night while talking to the reporter,
buried her face in her hands,
wEPT BITTERLY,
flinging the pictures of Annie Peterson
from her in rage and kissing the other
picture fondly. She still believes he
will repent, and send for her to JON
him. The two children whom Colin
left his wife to care for are
boys aged six years and three months
respectively. The deserted wife and
her friends unite in saying that Colin
was always kind husband and father
and they cannot believe that he will
leave his family to struggle with the
world unaided.