The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-10

Stubborn Child, All of which Shows that
Massachusetts Still has Some Blue Laws
Her Gentle Lover is MadIy In Love
with Her.
Boston, Mass, Oct. 9.-Rather than
give up her lover Miss Minnie Hartman
has given up her religion, her home,
and is now behind prison bars. The
girl lives at 19 Lucas street, and is
we'll and favorably known in the neigh
borhood.
She is handsome young Jewess Of
eighteen years. She has the black hair
and eyes characteristic of her race and
has been carefully reared and edu-
Gated. Had she not met young Chris
tan, and had they not loved, she would
now be in a position that might be en-
Wed by many of her race.
Last spring she finished her schooling
and being of an Independent turn of
mind, she asked permission of her par
ents TO go to work. This idea they Bit
terly opposed, but at last yielded, and
the girl secured a position in the Office
of shoe factory on Troy street.
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tie with all the employees. One young
man, whose name is said to be Dennis
on, was particularly impressed, and at
once began to pay the girl marked at
tentions. He is a good looking young
man of about twenty-eight.
His suit was favorably received by
the girl, but when it came to her par
ents Il was a different matter. This
the young man found out on the occa-
sion of his first visit. Mama was like
an iceburg and papa was just a little
colder than his better half. But if they
thought to freeze out the young man
they were mistaken, for he continued
as devoted as ever.
Then the girls parents adopted a
different coure and turned their atten-
ton to Minnie. She was at first APP
pealed to, and asked to remember that
the young man was not of her people.
She didn't seem to care. Then she was
told in plain English, with German
accent, that she should not let him
come to see her any more.
He stopped coming, but they managed
to meet just the same. Then the girl
was told that unless she stopped going
with Dennison that she would not be
allowed to keep her position.
parents, whether in the way of induce
ments, appeals or threats, were entire
ly in vain, how much so they diecoy-
cred only by an accident.
About a week ago the girl became ap-
parently submissive and the parents
at first thought that they had conquer
ed. One day in the latter part of the
week Mrs. Hartman happened to go
into her daughters room while the
girl was away, and noticed that two
Of the girls dresses were not hung in
the closet where they usually were
kept A short search revealed the fact
that the girl had packed all of her
most valuable things together in a
bundle. The mothers suspicious were
at once aroused and she anxiously
awaited her daughters return.
When the girl came home from her
days work, Mrs. Hartman at once tax
ed her with planning an elopement. The
girl would neither deny or admit the
fact, but maintained a stubborn silence.
Her spunk was clear up, and she I'M
Willingly furnished her mother with a
means to stop all her plans by making
an appeal to the law in the matter at
hand.
When the girl went to work on Sat
urday. her mother and father held an
earnest consultation, with the result
that about 4 p. m. policeman from
station No. appeared a the factory
where thegirl was employed with war
rant for her arrest as a stubborn child,
sworn out by her mother. She notified
her lover of what was the matter and
at once put on her things and accom-
panied her blue-coated captor to the
station house. There she met her moth
er.
She fully bore out her character as a
stubborn child by the way in which she
refused to agree to anything that her
mother proposed. While they We're still
talking a delegation of at least dozen
of her factory friends arrived on the
scene and wanted to bail her out. 1t
was a delicate question, but the officers
decided that no one had a right to bail
out the girl except her mother, and she
refused to do so unless her daughter
would agree to have no more to do with
the young man who was so objectiOna-
bic to the parents. This Minnie polite
| ly declined 10 do, and said she would
stay in prison forever in preference.
Into the woman's prison she went.
and she is still there. Yesterday her
mother relented and sent down to bail
her out under any circumstances. but
the girl declined to accept relief at her
mothers hands. She is buoyed up by a
hope that makes a very interesting fea-
ture of the case.
If she is convicted in court she is la
bic to be sent to a reformatory for at
least year. 1t is understood, however.
that her lover is ready to bail her out
and marry her at once. If bail offered
by him is accepted and she is married.
ii IS then a problem thai the officers are
puzzling over. whether she will, as a
wife, be in any danger Of being con-
victed of being an unruly child.
The whole question VIII probably be
decided today and great interest is be-
ing taken in the matter by all parties
concerned.
Mrs. Hartman was seen yesterday by
a reporter and asked what she
would do in case the young man was
able 10 bail the girl out and marry her.
She refused to talk, but said the r.rl
was very. very stubborn and declared
that her willingness TO be bailed out
Internationally was simply another
proof OF the charges made against her.
OF the young man in the case she re-
fused to say a word. and inferred that
there was more in the parental opposi-
ton to him than was made known on
the surface. The neighbors. however.
give the girl a reputation. and say that
she always appeared gentle and obed-