The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-04
BROKE UP TIE HOME.
The R0snnnee nj . Missouri Girl. and the
Ssrang~ Life she Led.

tered mt the Jones commercial college,,
IN North Third street. this city. and took
up the studies Of short hand t~ypcwritin9.
She was admired for her beauty and res-
rsctcd for her ability. She In drscrihs,tl
by the principal as being tho brightest
and most apt scholar he ever had, az
complaining i'm one month as much as the
average scholar docs i'm thrc. On sew
cral occasions during her tutelage at
Jones' college,, says the IT. Louis GLOBE
Dsmocyaf. she left for the city without
saying where she was going ar why she
left, though il is supposed that she went
tn visit her father. Rev. Dr. Cook of Ne
osho. Mo. Last Monday she gathered her
belongings together and left the college.
with the remark that she was "going
after hcr babies. and that she did not
know whether she would he back ar not"
Since then the college people have not
seen or heard anything Of her.
That the woman had an interesting his
tory there WAS not a doubt ina the minds of
those who met her here. and they will
story related by u gentleman familiar
with her life to - Giob'-f h'moc,afic r,,por-
ter. Said he: .Six years ago Maud Cook.
elder of the Methodist Episcopal church
of the Kansas City district. was as pretty
= black-cy.d girl ns Was to he found in a
natural AT her age, was somewhat
petnlant and strong willcd. Her
lister, and when he, wife and dangh-
ter Maud went to Kansas City Maud at
trs.ctcd much attention among the yo,ng
known as Todd. WAS then a popular clerk
in the circuit court clerks office. He was
among the many suitors for Maud Cooks
hand, and lie was the ~favoritc one. The
pastor and his wife did not object tn Todd
hindc's attentions tn Maud, hut AS she
was only lei and her education not conn
pletc, they did not want her to marry.
When il was known that the young lovers
! T.rsi s n"Si :sk.. ff HIM p to- w SiH two ws years ::
until Maud was educated. and he agreed
to do 50.
"A few weeks after this. one night after
night. a messenger went to the r.sidCnce
of Todd Hirdc with "a letter from his he
trotllea. saying SIN" had quarrsi.d with
her parents had left home and lie must
come tn her. ID went and she said she
would never go back home, and il he did
not marry her she would go out AS n sCrv-
ant. The young man went tai her father
and placed the situation ls'fors. him. The
! pastor father went tn the daughter. hut no
reasoning would persuade her tai return
home. aud he took the lovers tn his own
home and there married them. These
Sip at the time. T"dd Hinic was cnSicd
about town for capturing the handsonie
daughter of the presiding elder. They
took a bridal tripa'dw were as happy AS two
Todd Hinde was popular, aud by ma
nipulating politics, he got the Democratic
nomination for recorder of jackson conn
~ i'm 1886. He was elected by ~ handsome
plurality, hut in his campaign Todd got to
joictsi AT his election. for il meant "a sal
airy Of "a .OO "a year, and she had learned
to love dress and society. Her dissipation
In this line had gone tai about the Same.
extent AS that of licr husband i'm drinking.
This was the situation when, In January.
his bond. The little ones had been horn.
the little girl now being 4 years old and
the boy = years.
up tn the Hindle r~s'sidense. Todd had but
"a few moments before. left the house. The
wife, dressed stylishiy, came out of the
I sI1nr Anr fu1a anR 6.lailslrSapn ar i'm
the yard playing. STOPPING over them,
she kissed them both. saying: Good bye,
The young children. hound to their pretty
mother, their natural PROTECTOR. cried.
Amid their plaintiff wallis the mother was
proud man.. He loved his cups, hut lac
had tried faithfully to make a model
moniously left him. to vo where he knew
not. He said nothing, but taking his
children. he went TO his old mother and
away; take my children and bc as Roosl a
mother tai them as yosi were to me- He
did not even relate TO his mother the par
nearly Al week bsfor, the public knew
that the RECORDERS wife had left him,
When il was known hc refused to talk
about il, and what tho public got cam.
from relatives; IL was generally supposed
that Mrs. Hindc had gone to her fathers
male seminary, hat the father knew
nothing of his daughter. and her identity
WAS entlrt'ly t1u from AL nor rr1snu~.
"Just six weeks after Mrs. Hinde disap
pearssl her husband fell between two NOV
ing cable cars and received such injuries
that hr never recovered consciousness
and died. His death was autographed over
lie country, but not IL word WAS heart
from the absent wife.
monday August ~. the funeral of tls
dead ~corlc was held. Although killss
two days before. no worsl came from ths
Young black-cys-d wife. Ii was believes
sls. would be there. by the bier of tn.
dead man there. was ~ vacant chair fo
the wife who did not go to look upon th'
lips now cold in death which had kis~ss
away her troubled tears the night IN.
fore their wedding when she has
qiarrs.l.d with her parents and RAJ
away from home. She did not go to pa,
"A last tribute to the man who She had
only six years before. sworn To love ans
obey. Tn. two-ysar~sld boy. Charlie
Carroll. in the next room played with hi
blocks. Lucy Mildred. the four-ycar-ol,
daughter, lad cried her eyes red hscau~4
others cried. There are few children thu
orphaned. But they will be wei
cared for. lii., mcshcr of the dead r.,
corsls,r will bring them up IA though the
were. her own, and thcr. il no bette.
mother in all Jackson county than wido,
Lucy NJ. Kinds. mother of the late rss'oI
der"
The gentleman further stated that wbci
Todd Kinds was killed h. carried an ia
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