The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-08-24
TROUBLES OF THE BRAVE.
How Miss Webster Spent Four
Days and Nights.

NOW MISS WEBSTER Spent FOur
Days and Nights.
There was something real sensation
al in the election, and the subsequent
proceedings up to the present time
Miss Webster, who is sister to Mrs.
Taber, refused to leave the hotel when
the first proceedings were taken last
Tuesday, and at once commenced to
take the position of Mr.. Taber's agent
in the hotel. Later in the afternoon
Of that day Mr.. Taber came TO the
window, and yelled to her to remain
there until ordered to leave by Mr.
Taber. This she set out to do with an
obstinacy that would do credit to any
woman, even though no result was ac-
complished. Miss Webster took a
chair in the Office, and occupied it un
til late at night, when she retired on
sofa in the same room. She was CIV
en- permission 70 leave at any time, but
with the understanding that she could
not return.
All of Wednesday and Thursday
was passed in this way, she not speak
ing to any one, communication being
shut off from her relatives, and not
caring to converse with the Francois
estate assistants. The laws of Nature
were imperative, and food of light
variety was sent to her on the order of
Mrs. Francois, who preferred to not
see the lady suffer for want of food.
On Thursday Attorney George w.
Somerville, of Sleepy Eye, came up
and was made conferee in the case
with Mr.. Bowers. and he. on Friday
morning, ordered everything removed
from the Office, except single chair !,
the windows nailed down, the curtains
pulled down, and every room in the
house locked. Not even the spittoons
were allowed to remain.
This order reached Mr.. and Mrs.
Taber in the evening Of Friday. About
eight o'clock. Mrs. Taber, with her
young son holding her hand called on
Mrs. Francois and wanted to know
whether it was so that her sister was
not receiving food. Mrs. Francois in
formed her that Miss Webster could
leave at any time she desired, but the
attorneys had forbidden food to her.
Later in the evening, while Mrs. Fran
co.'s was eating supper in the rear of
the hotel, Mrs. Taber, accompanied by
her son, called on Mrs. Francois again,
! asking to see her sister. Mrs. Fran
co.'s asked her whether she wanted
her sister outside. The reply was in
the affirmative. Mrs. Francois went
into the hotel to call Miss Webster,
but was only half way up when her
attention was attracted by Mrs. Taber
attempting to overpower the hotel
watch, Emil Bachman, and get into
the hotel with her son, evidently with
the intention of reviving their claim to
the hotel being their home. Mrs
Taber had one limb partially through
the screen door, and Bachman, light
man, was struggling hard to keep this
heavy woman out. Mrs. Francois
rushed back. and Mrs. Taber did not
press an entrance any further. She
went down stairs, where her husband
and Porter John Dyer were standing,
and all four returned to the Com
mercial. The stair entrance to the
rear of the second floor was then
blocked, and admittance only given
by pass word.
! On Saturday morning, after Miss
Webster had spent all night in a wood
seated chair, a note was sent to her
stating that Mr.. Taber would call for
her with carriage. The latter drove
into the alley about ten o'clock, Miss
Webster came to the door, made sure
that it was no decoy, and passing out
of the hotel stated to Mrs. Francois
that she would return again. Mrs.
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