The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-16
STOLEN KISSES IN A STORE.
AN ATLANTA MERCHANT PUT IN A
BAD LIGHT ny AN ORPHAN.
Teddy Hart of Base BRII Fame the
Defendant ia the Case and the
Prosecutor a Pretty Inmate of the
Jewish Orphan Asylum at Atlanta.
The Girl Says He Seized uer and
Smothered Her with Kisses.

SmOthered Her With Kisses.
Atlanta, Ca. Feb. l5-Edward Hart
known in base ball circles all over the
country as Teddy Hart" the proprietor
OF novelty store on Whitehall street,
was put under bond of $500 this after
noon by Justice Orr to answer a charge Of
assault and battery in the higher courts.
Behind the apparently simple charge
there is highly sensational story Hart
with his brother Charlie Hart. another
base ball man of wide repute. president
OF the Atlanta club several seasons ago.
has done business at the same stand on
Whitehall street for eleven years. His
store is right in the hart Of the retail
district
This morning about o'clock an exceed
ingly pretty girl OF lG entered the store
and asked to see some dolls. There
was nobody else in the store at the time.
and Hart waited upon her himself ask
ing her to the rear OF the store to see
the stock.
A few minutes later the girl ran ex-
citedly out Of the store and into THE
Fair" next door, where between hysteri-
cal sobs she told Mr.. Thanhauser. one OF
the proprietors. that she had been rudely
treated by Hart.
Later on Hart was arrested upon a war
rant sworn out by supt. Som Of the He
brew Orphans Home. He was taken 10
police headquarters and detained there
until O'Clock this afternoon, when the
preliminary hearing occurred
Miss Addie Kahn, the young lady, ap-
peared in the court room. accompanied
by Supt. Som OF the Orphans Home and
a large delegation of the most influential
Jewish citizens in town, who are greatly
incensed at her accounts of the outrage.
Miss Kahn is an inmate Of the Or
phans Home She is just IL, with large
black eyes, a pure olive complexion and
is altogether an exceptionally beautiful
girl.
She was nicely dressed, with a brown,
fur trimmed cloak and a pink "fascina-
tor tied around her head, that made Of
her pretty face picture rarely seen inside
a court house.
When the girl took the stand she gave
her account Of the affair IN a straightfor-
ward way, every word uttered with an ac-
cent Of indignation that made it all the
more convincing.
II went into Mr.. Hart's store" she
said, "a little after O'Clock, Tor the puf-
pose Of buying a doll. There was nobody
else there but Mr. Hart and myself. ]
had been in the store pi eviously, but had
never seen him before. He showed me
some dolls that ! did not like near the
front, and then asked me to the rear end
of the store. When ! got there he asked
me TO kiss him. / told him would not,
but he grabbed me In his arms, and sir.
he kissed me no less than six times. I
struggled and screamed, and as ] was go
ing out Of the front door he caught me
and drew me back into his arms and
kissed me again. He kissed me right on
my mouth"
Miss Kahn said she thought Hart saw
the address on "a package she had in her
hond, and knowing from it that she was
an orphan. thought to take advantage Of
her
Hart offered no defense at all, Hon. w.
c. Glenn, his attorney, saying to the court
that a man rising from the dead could not
discredit the girls story now, but he would
meet il later on. Hart claims that the
young lady began Irritation with him,
and that she condemned his conduct.
Hart viii be prosecuted vigorously by
the Orphans Home, and the probability
is that he win have to pay dearly for his
fOIen kisses