The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-01
LOVED A BLUE COAT
Year-O1d Hoboken
Girl Disappeared From
Her Home Tuesday.
RETURNED THIS AFTERNOON
Refused to Say Whether She Was
With the Policeman or Not.

%Infatuation for a Hoboken policeman has
turned the mind of little thirteen-year-old
Annie Kuehne, whose widowed mother lives
at No. 100 Newark street, Hoboken, and
Annie, the mother fears, has elops1 with the
blue coat. Mrs. Kuehne is proprietress of a
saloon at No. 100 Newark street. She has
two daughters, of which Annie is the
elder. The latter is an attractive girl,
considerably older in appearance than she is
in reality. Frequently the girl has, when
sitting alone with her mother, mentioned
the name of a tall, good looking policeman
who patrolled a beat not far from the house.
Who the policeman is Mrs. Kuehne cannot
remember, and Chief Donovan says he knows
of no policeman there with blonde hair and
tall.
LOVED THE BLUECoAT.
Mrs. Kuehne says Annie used to speak OF
the policeman in endearing terms, and once
she even declared she would lay her life
completely in love with the guardian of
things In general, and peace IN particular,
and admitted it without even so much as a
blush. Mrs. Kuehne never entertained any
doubt but her little girl had developed a pass
ing affection for the policeman, and
never devoted much, if any, attention
to the girls talk, save to administer
a reproof at times. Recently, however, she
noted a material change in the girls DISPOSE
ton. Young as she was, Annie seemed to
nave acquired what authorities style the
true art of loving, to be loved in return.
Even Annie had spoken to an Intimate
girl friend of hers about the blue coat, ana
the friend now asserts that Annie had con-
fessed to her that she was madly IN love
with the policeman. One night last week
Annie left the house, and, the girl friend
says, met the policeman on the corner OF
Park avenue and First street. This Annie
told her friend, who related the circumstance
to Mrs. Kuehne.
REPRoACHED BY HER MOTHER.
The latter reproached Annie for her con-
duct, and told her she must have no more
love relations with the policeman. Mrs.
Kuehne thought her admonitiOn would be
needed, but that mysterious, lndescrlbable
influence which, those say who know,
gains an ascendancy over young hearts, and
once in a while older ones, had fastened it
self upon Annie, and to obey her mothers
command, meant fguratively to break the
little ones heart.
Last Tuesday morning Annie left her
home. telling her mother she would return
soon. Not returning at nightfall the mother
became concerned, and yesterday morning
the suggestion of what her daughter might
nave lone presented itself to her. Scarcely
believing her own conclusions could be true
she waited for the return of her daughter.
This morning the mother, with aching heart
told Chief Donovan of her daughters ex-
PLOTS.
sit may be she has not run off with the
policeman" she said, with a pitiable degree
of hope. s'but I am afraid she has done 1t"
The mother could not restrain her sobs, and
left the station house with tear-bedimmed
ewes. Chief Donovan will endeavor to ascer-
tain who the policeman is who has SO cruelty
taken the girl from her home. The police
man whom Annie loved is said to be a mar
ried man.
THIS AFTERNOON.
At one o'clock this afternoon Annie re-
turned to her home. Every effort of her
mother to learn where her daughter had
been failed. Annie refused to tell.