St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-17
WAS IT BESSIE
THAT CAME IN WITH THE sHER
IFF LAST NIGHT AT
$50.
A PRETTY WOMAN IN TEARS
REPORT HAS 1T THAT 1T WA,
BESSIE MOORE, WHO ELoPER
FROM ABERDEEN, S. d.
SHERIFF. CHAPEL is RETICENE
The Girls Escapade Recalled b.
the circumstances as
II Given.
A PRETTY WOMAN IN TEARS
SHERIFF CHAPEL is RET1cENI.

A Sheriff, in conjunction with a
maiden who is evidently in distress.
ordinarily raises in the minds of
those who see them a supposition
that there is something up" besides
heads. So when Sheriff Chapel ar
rived in ST. Paul at o'clock last
evening on an Interurban car. con-
veying a blonde young woman who
had been crying, it is only natural
that the question should be raised.
who is she?"
From certain circumstances gath
cred by the G 10 b e the deduction
has been drawn that she in this case
is very likely Bessie Moore. 1t will
be remembered that
BESSIE ELOPED
from Aberdeen, S. D., about a week
ago with druggist named Car
held, who left a wife and two chill
dren behind him, while Bessie left
sorrowing father and mother of
good social standing and eminently
respectable. Last Monday the run
away couple was seen at Langdon.
N. D., whence they were supposed to
have started by team for the Cana
dian boundary.
This start for Canada was rather
expected by their pursuers as the
most likely thing Garfield would do.
and he left Langdon in a rather pub
lie manner. Now if Bessie is in RAM
sey county Jail, it will not be strange,
because the probability is that Mr..
Garfield doubled on his pursuers.
and at some point caught a train
Tor Minnesota, and gave up the trip
into territory where they would be
most likely to look for him.
Maj. w. H. Moore, the father Of
Miss Bessie, is one of the best known
politicians and lobbyists in South
Dakota, and a gentleman who knows
him intimated last evening that the
major and Sheriff Chapel, of st.
Paul, are not strangers to each other.
He further intimated that the girls,
.fatheE had. in some way gotten a
pointer that the e1opers were
HEADED FOR TWIN CITIES
ihSeCao VI lie queen commons.
Having the tip, what more natural
than that Maj. Moore should telegraph
to a law officer who is also his friend
to head them off and hold the girl.
The young person who accompanied
Sheriff Chapel on an Interurban car,
with a handkerchief over her eyes,
answered very well to the description
of Miss Moore She was petite, a
blonde with hair very curly in front,
and looked a mere slip of girl. The
sheriff, it is said, found Garfield and
Miss Moore in a house on South Fifth
street, Minneapolis, shortly after they
arrived in that city. The request from
the father did not include Garfield, for
while Mr.. Chapel would have no
trouble in OBTAINING the girl (who is
only seventeen), it is a question if,
under the circumstances, Garfield could
be held, since his companion accom-
panied him voluntarily and there is no
one else to testify against him.
Inquiry at the Jail last night did not
elicit any information. The attendants
professed ignorance of the presence Of
any such person as Bessie Moore. Yet
today will most likely develop the
correctness of the statement that Miss
Moore lodged last night in the Ramsey
county bastile.