The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-14
SHE DIED ALONE.
JENNIE LEE, ALIAS ANDERSON
DEAD AT ROCK VALLEY,
w. d. Farr, OF This City, Spent His
All in Doctoring Her, and Got Ar
rested and Misrepresented for His
Pains. = Something of the Girls
Career.

rested and Misrepresented for His
Pains. - Something OF the Girls
Career.
Friday nights Minneapolis journal
contains the following dispatch from
Rock Valley, Iowa:
Last Saturday the unconscious and
almost lifeleSs form of young woman
was taken from the passenger train
from the East on its arrival here.
The woman was on cot and had been
put on at Sheldon. There was no one
here to receive her, but she was
recognized as young girl who had
worked at the hotel here last summer.
She was taken to the hotel, where she
fingered for three days, remaining in
a StupOr from which she never rallied
and dying Tuesday evening.
Upon Investigating the matter, it
was found that she had been at Man
kato, Mimi, for the past few months,
and, upon being taken sick, was con-
veyed on a cot from Mankato to Shell
don, and then to Rock Valley, the
party with whom she stayed at Man
kato accompanying her as far as Shell
don, but sending her alone from there.
A few days before she left Mankato a
letter was received here, written for
her to party here, asking whether
she could come here and work, and
stated that she was we'll, and to this
letter an answer was sent saying she
could come.
While here last summer she went
by the name of Jennie Anderson, but
it is said that this is not her real
name. A post norton examination
was held over the remains last even
ing, and clot was found on her brain
and traces of Inflammation, which ac-
counts for her condition of stupor
prior to her death. She was buried
here today.
The man who put her on the train
at Sheldon, whose name was d. FAIR,
has been arrested. He has been but a
short time in Sheldon and little is
known about him. The girl was
about Is years of age, utterly helpless
and without friends or money. The
excuse that FAIR offers for this treat
ment of the girl is that he is very
poor, has large family to support, is
out of work and could not procure her
medical aid, and that she requested
that he send her to Rock Valley, say
ing that she had friends there and had
lived there herself several years ago.
Public opinion seems to be that Farr,
seeing that she had but a few days to
live, procured ticket and sent her to
Rock Valley in order to escape the
funeral expenses.
A FREE PRESS reporter investi-
gated the matter this forenoon and
found many of the facts to be greatly
at variance with the above account,
and some additional details which are
of an interesting nature.
A family named Mr.. and Mrs. W.
D. FAIR located in this city last win.
ter, taking the red house on Agency
hill. Mr. Farr cleaned wall paper,
aud was recently mentioned in these
columns as having cleaned the wal
paper at the city hall. Some of the
neighbors made complaints, but
Chief Yates looked after the family
two or three times and found nothing
wrong. Along in February girl OF
twenty years arrived from Sioux City
and made her home there, the family
being friends of hers, and she having
secured their permission to go there
She gave the name of Jennie Ander
son, but her real name was Jennie Lee
and she explained the fact of taking
an assumed name, as follows: He
parents were both dead and had left
$50 acres of land to her, to revert tt
her on becoming of age, which would
be next January. Her brother-in-law
who is farmer near Rock Valley
Iowa, had abused her, she said, anC
tried to get the land from her, but she
would not and could not sign it away
She had left and gone to various
places. Last winter she entered the
hospital at Sioux City, and an opera
tion was there performed. After be
ing out two weeks she heard that the
Farr family was in Mankato, and re.
ceived permission to visit them. She
was afraid of her brother-in-law, sc
she took an assumed name, that he
might not become acquainted with
her whereabouts.
The girl was tall and passabl y gooc
looking, but was sickly when she
came to this city. After being here
couple of weeks, two physicians were
consulted to stop severe hemorrhages
of the nose, and finally DR.. P. Follmau
was called. DR.. Follman has treated
her ever since until last Friday, when
she took the Omaha train for Rock
Valley. To him she told her story as
above given.
DR.. Follman states that the girl
was suffering from syphilitic consump-
ton, and that she died as natural
result of this disease, and that there
was no possibility of her recovery
She would have lived a little longer
had she not taken the trip. He also
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