The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-01-04
REAL ROMANCE IN ATLANTA.
"A New Sensation for the Gate City
"A Girl Is Pursued and Prosecuted
by II Persistent Lover.

| "A New Sensation for the Gate City-
"A Girl Is Pursued and Prosecuted
by II Persistent Lover.
Sheriff Barnes, of Atalnta, Ga, took
q slight hand in an unexpected ro.
nance on Christmas Eve, the details
OF which are curious and interesting
The account given is as follows:
Up to week ago one Of the bright
est and most popular students at the
Sullivan " Crichton Business College
was known as Miss Corinne Maddox.
She was pretty little thing of rs, and
| her fellow students regarded the al =
den attentions paid to her BY Gilmore
| freeman, good looking young fellow
who came to the school every day to
walk nome with her, as but q natural
thing. Although contrary to the rule
in cases OF young love, the girl ap-
peared to be tcrrorized rather than
pleased by the devotion OF her lover.
Apparently he exercised some power
full influence over her. So far as her
companions saw, she made no attempt
to rebel Frecman's attentions, but
those most intimate with her were
satisfied that the girl was really per-
secuted by her lover. They did not,
however, guess tho secret, and "a week
ago, when Miss Corine failed to an
qulry by her companions at her board
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from there as unceremoniously as she
had left the school, there was good
deal of surprise. The girl had
said she had no relatives to
whom she might have gone and her
companions could not believe that she
had accepted Freeman as Christmas
gift. This theory was quickly proven
by the appearance OF Freeman himself
at the school searching for the missing
girl.
Just here Sheriff Barnes became in
terestcd in the story. Monday after
noon while he was arranging things to
have a pleasant Christmas with his
family, Freeman appeared at the of
flee. After introducing himself he
presented writ of habcas corpus for
Corinne Maddox. He told the sheriff of
his love for the girl, and
showed Il marriage license as his proof
of his intentions. He related the cir
cumstances OF the girls disappearance
from her boarding house and school,
and his search for her. This search,
he told the sheriff, had been rewarded
the discovery that she was being
held prisoner for immoral purposes
in u house kept by her own mother
The name OF the woman appears in
the writ Of habcas corpus as Jennie
Simmons, woman well known to the
police.
Armed with the writ, the sheriff
went to the Simmons wOman's place
and finally found the girl locked in a
room. The Simmons woman admitted
that the girl was her daughter. For
sixteen years, she declared, she had
had her brought up in Il respectable
family, nobody knowing her mothers
shame. Freeman, however, learned
it, and used his power over her to
force her to marry him, but to prevent
him from carrying out his design,
which would have made the girls life
darkly miserable, the woman declared
she had secretcd her in her house
the first time she had ever crossed its
hreshold-hOping to eludc the pur-
suit OF Freeman.
The girl confirmed the story told by
her mother. She did not want to mar
| ry Freeman, she declared, but only
wanted him to be kept away from her.
Sheriff Barnes took charge of the girl
ard had her placed in private house
until to-day, when she was brought to
the court house to answer the writ of
habeas corpus.
While the attorneys on both sides
were coming to an agreement to allow
the writ dismissed, Freeman appeared
on the scene and tried to get into the
room where the girl was. He was in
terccpted by the Simmons woman like
an enraged tigrcss. Before Freeman
could get in the Office Sheriff Barnes
slipped the girl out Of back door,
and took her to private boarding
| house.
| When Freeman discovcd the girls
flight he was furious. He declared
that he would marry her despite all
obstacles, and left the shcrifTs office
vOwing to search the city from house
to house but that he would find her.