The morning times., 1895-12-09
ALL FINED AND RELEASED
Kinsello aud Miss Minor Spent Sat.
urday Night in Cells.
ing-Went to Alexandr ria to
BE Married.

Fannie Minor, the young girl whose
elopement with Thomas Kinsello has been
told in The Times, spent Saturday night and
nearly all Sundaysin the Alexandria police
station, a prisoner with her prospective
husband, her sister, Maud Minor, and c.
j. Stansbury, who says he has been paying
attentions to Miss Maud.
The quartet, as stated IN The Times yes
terday, were arrested for disorderly con-
duct. Mayor Thompson, in consequence OF
the illness of Fannie Minor and the appeals
of the quartet, departed from his usual
rule, and gave them a hearing In Captain
Webster's office at / 80 O'Clock yesterday
evening.
Police Officer Atkinson, who made the
arrests, stated that he had gone to the
corner of King and Pitt streets I'm re-
sponse to telephonecall, and had arrested
Stansbury who became very abusive, and
required considerable force to get him to
the station. Kinsello, and the two girls
followed him and they were also locked
up. Mr.. Atkinsons statement was cor
roborated by Mr.. X. f. Knight, who as
sisted the officer. Both thought the party
had been drinking.
Mrs. Adamson, the matroD at the Alex
andria lDfjrmary, where Fannie Minor was
carried after being taken sick, stated that
when the party Were brought To the in
Urinary she had taken Fannie and her
sister to a room and had prepared Fannie
for bed and told her sister tn go to bed
with her. KinselC and Stansbury had
come to the hospital, but evinced no dis
position to leave, though II was after
IL O'Clock, until ordered out by DR.. Jones.
They went out, but almost Immediately
came back and began knocking a the door.
For fear of alarming the patients she opened
the door again and the men demanded that
the girls go with them, and Maud Minor
Insisted upon accompanying them. The
men were loud and boisterOus and she was
sorry to say the girls were under the in
fluence OF liquor.
The conduct of the men was so boisterous
that DR.. Jones telephoned for an officer.
Stansbury was then allowed 10 make a
statement. He sdid-that he was a friend
OF the parents OF the girls. and had been
paying attention to Maud. With the
consent of Fannies parents. he bad gone
to Alexandria to see the couple married.
thinking that license was not necessary
there When they arrived there they
called on Rev. Mr.. Butler of the First
Baptist Church. and asked him 10 marry
the couple. Mr.. Butler explained that
lie could not, as license is not only
required. but the woman must be a resi-
dent OF the city and county in which the
ceremony takes place.
Hoping that Mr.. Butler might be mistaken.
they then went to see Rev. Theron H.
Rice, pastor OF the Second Presbyterian
Church, but he was not in. They then
had supper, and while there, Fannie COM
planned OF feeling i'll, and they were on
their way to the depot to take train
Tor Washington, when she became sick.
She was carried into Purcelrs millinery
store, on King street, where DR.. Jones
attended her. and ordered her TO be taken
to the infirmary. He insisted that none
OF them were drunk. that his conduct at
the 1nfirnary was caused by his under
standing that he would have to nav $40
Tor the attendance upon Fannie he only
resisted the officer because he did not
Know he was policeman, as he was
not in uniform.
Kinsello and the girls made no state
ments, Fannie saying she was too i'll to
recall what went on, and her sister saving
she had not drunk anything, nor was she