Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-14
a Wayward Girls Career.

gives hrict biography ui ANN" tlNh, as
follows
Annie T. Fish who. hy her numerous
+ cseapades and freaks. has made herself
notorious through the papers. is the
daughter Of Robc-t Fish au honest, hard
working citizen Of Cranberry, now living
near Salna. and who has lived in this
vicinity for ~ years. annie IS about IL
years old. Her mother died when she was
about 10, and year or two after She went
to reside with highly respectable and
well honorcd couple OF Cranberry, who had
no children Of their own.
Here she had a good home but after
staying about three years she decamped in
the absence of the family and struck ont
for herself and soon after went To work in
Franklin with "A family named Gardner
But she soon left and went to Bradensburg
to an uncle living there, who took her
home to her father In February. lSss,
She went to oil City 10 work, and in May
her father was notified oi her misconduct
lie brought her home again, and two days
afterwards she ran away and went to Oil
City. to the same place. She remained
there two or three days, leaving one morn
ing about 10 clock and shortly afterwards
was found by Levi Dale and VIM Musser,
about ole mile ont of oil City, near the
Dale wells, in seemingly unconscious
condition. Mr.. Dale took her To his home
in oil City, where she tnll n number Of
conflicting stories. She said that she was
an orphan, giving her name as Dollie Lee,
that she had left her brothers at Redbank
Armstrong county, three days before, and
that she was put off the Valley train at
Franklin, and had wandered through the
country for three days, without anything
to eat She pretended she did not know
how She came to be where she was In a
day OF two she was identified by lady for
whom she had worked, she denied her
identity, but finally had to give up and
confessed she was planning. Her father
was notified. She claimed To be unable to
be moved when he camc for her. Soon
! afterward she went home and promised to
do better She remained at home most of
the time until April, 1880, when she again
ran away from home, going to Oil City
where she staid few days. Going out into
the country near her home, she found em-
ployment with family. giving her name
as Ida Blair In two days her right name
was found out when she unceremoniously
left. She next turned up at Uniontown,
near Franklin, giving her name AS Donna
Harris to the family where sine was work
ing. When her true name was found out
she left in company with another girl and
went to Parkers Landing. Armstrong
county, and worked there about four weeks
one evening abe and another girl went
buggy riding with j. H. Kuntz and VIII
Elliott, buggy agents, and returned be-
tween 10 and II o'clock the same evening
The next morning she left and was seen by
different parties going towards Six Points,
Butler county. In day or two afterwards
she was found apparently unconscious near
the old Maple Furnace. She was taken to
the house of Elias Daubenspeck, near by
and gave her name as Ada Seaton, that
she was born in Pittsburg and that her
mother died there, her father removing to
Cleveland where he died
She then went before a justice of the
Kuntz and Elliott for assault with attempt
to commit rape. She claimed she had
never been back to Parker since going out
riding with them, ana this story she repeat
ed in open court The friends of Kuntz
end Elliott knew who she was and where
from and had her father, brother and
several neighbors to identify her, but she
denied all knowledge of them and stuck to
her story The two young men were found
not guilty but TO pay the costs, amounting
with other expenses and loss to over
81 900.
While in Bntler her father had Annie
arrested and n commitment made ont TO
send her To the reform school, bnt he left
for home an attorney got out writ of
habeus corpus and had her released. She
then went to Martinsburg, Butler county,
staying there until about the first of Jan
uary, when for some misbehavior she left
and went home to her fathers. In Feb
ruary she went to work in the family of
VIM. Krengcr, who keeps a store half a
mile west of Salina She staid there nine
days, then skipped, first taking II full out
fit of mems clothing from the store. At
Franklin she got on freight train and
went to Pittsburg, dressed in mems clothes.
There she stayed off as a green country
hoy and was employed by n lady about her
house. She gave herself away by her apt
ness in the kitchen and was given an outfit
Of clothes, and next morning was found
lying unconscious in the hallway and was
removed to the hospital. She appears to
have the power to bring on these periods of
apparent unconsciousness whenever she
pleases and keep them up for days at n
time She claims To have been mistreatcd
and abused AT home, but no such report is
currcnt in the neighborhood where her
father lives lie is a hard working, poor
man. and was left with several small chill
dren at the death Of his wife.