St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-18
FLEEING FROM A HUSBAND.
A Romance Traced Down to ST.
Paul Hotel. .


A strikingIy pretty brunette, who ap-
peared to be scarcely over sixteen ears
of age, arrived at the Clifton hotel soon
after II o'clock last night, and in very
business-like manner affixed her name
to the register and requested COM
Portable room. In the rOtunda of the
hotel at the time of her arrival were the
usual large number of lOungers,
and among them, standing near the
desk, GLOBE reporter was in CONVEX
sation with Fred Selleck, commercial
traveller, who had arrived from La
Crosse during the day. AS Mr.. Selleck
noticed the new arrival he exclaimed to
the reporter:
'By jove, there's the girl that raised
the devil with Charley Klein at the hotel
in La Crosse last night. Amt she a
beauty?"
Upon being questioned the CONNER
cial traveller related an interesting cpl
sode that took place at a leading hotel
in La Crosse Friday night. He
said that Klein arrived at
the hotel early Friday evening
and ascertaining that the young woman
was there sent his card to her room.
She refused to receive him, Whereupon
he went up stairs to her room and de-
manded admission. He made noise
enough to attract the attention OF
nearly every guest i'll the house and
was finally persuaded to desist the dis
turbance and retire to his own room.
traveller and the reporter glanced at
the hotel register and the former was
quite shocked to see written there the
name.
MRS. G. A. KLEIN, DAVENPORT.
swell, that's interesting" exclaimed
Mr.. Selleck, II never knew Klein was
married. Evidently there's something
wrong here"
The traveller went on to remark that
be had known Klein for number of
years, aud was almost positive that
he was unmarried. Seeming a
posely overlooking the formality
of sending up his card, quietly went up
stairs and knocked at the door of the
recently arrived guest, and by fair sub
terfuge, succeeded in bringing the
young woman from her apartment to
the parlor, where she was questioned
regarding the episode at La Crosse. AT
first she was inclined to be reticent, but
after the scribe had purposely angered
her she talked like whirlwind.
"Why did l refuse to see Klein last
night? Why, the hound, he has no right
to see me, and if he don't quit following
me all over the country, I'll put a bullet
in his head. Yes, he is my husband,
but, after the way he has treated me,
don't see how he can expect me to live
with him. Now what do you think of a
man that would infatuate a young girl,
takn har from com Portable home and
then desert her? Well, that's what
Charley Klein has done with me.
After deserving me once and allowing
me to get into the very pitfall of hell he
now wants me to return to him. He
promises me everything-his devotion,
home and almost everything that is
good. But what reliance can put In
the promises of such man? Why, l
have taught myself to hate the very
ground Charley Klein walks upon. And
now that | refuse to fly back into his
open arms he is making an absolute
hound of himself, following me from
place TO place."
The girls talk continued in that
strain for over an hour, and the circum-
stances which led to her present condi-
ton are summed up as follows:
Mrs. Klein, who refuses to reveal her
maiden name, was schoolgirl at DAY.
export, To-, when she first met the man
who is now Ter legal husband about
two years ago. Klein Is CONNER
cial traveller and visited Davenport
about once a month. Finally he sue
ceeded In November, 1889, In persuad-
ing her to run away from her home
with him. They went first to Clinton,
then to Dubuque and other cities on the