St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-04
sUPT. SMITH IN A NEW ROLE.
He Has an Exciting Experience
with Young Girl.

He Has an Exc1t1ng experience
With Young Girl.
Superintendent Of Police V. M Smith
had the hottest tussle of the new year
yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock,
with a slip Of girl, about eighteen
years Of age. The scene was enacted in
the corridors Of the city hail. and at
tracted a large crowd Of excited spec
tators.
The girl in the case is Jennie Lilly,
who is said to be q stranded actress.
The chief was not trying to arrest the
girl, but was simply essaying to ward
off a case Of Mysteries before they broke
out in the midst Of crowded street.
The matter developed into something
Of a sensation. A week ago, Mrs.
Rutherford, who declines to give her
address, was standing at the union de-
pot after bidding some friends good
bye, when she was approached by a
young girl who asked the lady if she
was not from Chicago. Mrs. Ruther-
ford replied in the negative, and the
girl lowered around for a few moments
as If wanting to speak but not having
the courage. Finally she said she was
in a strange city and had nothing to
eat, and no place to sleep. Mrs. Ruth
erford, being charitably inclined, took
the girl home for the night, and laid
the case before Matron Paine, Of the
central station the next day. Mayor
Pratt was then interested in the girl,
and all hands tried to do something for
her. At times the young woman acted
queerly and it was thought she might
be trif1e off mentally.
Miss Lilly claimed to be expecting a
remittance from her home in Califor-
MIA. The money came finally, but the
girl is said to have denied receiving 1t.
Mayor Pratt became convinced that the
girl needed looking after and asked
Mrs Rutherford to keep her in sight
until today. This afternoon Mrs. Ruth
erford called at the city hall on an
tending to turn her over to the care of
the authorities. Mayor Pratt was not
in his office and the girl persisted in
leaving the building. Mrs. Rutherford
insisted that Miss Lilly should wait,
and on being pressed, the girl flew into
a tantrum, and her screams rang out
along Hennepin avenue. Supt Smith
stood in the corridor of the city hall,
and on hearing the cries. ran out. On
seeing him, Miss Lilly dashed up the
avenue with the chief at her heels.
The latter won the race, and tucking
the girl under his arm as easily as he
would a rag doll, he started for the
door, But Miss Lilly would not go.
She squirmed from the chiefs arms
and the superintendent was compelled
to pinion her arms and carry her bodily
to his private office, with Mrs. Ruther-
ford at her heels. Miss Lilly's con-
dition seemed serious at first She
screamed violently but gradually
Gained down. She assailed the chief
for carrying her in, and declared she
would get even.
Matron Paine was called In and asked
to care for the girl during thSR;Sht
Miss Lilly tells a rather rSnantic
story. She alleges her father is a
wealthy Californian. Her mother is
in an insane asylum, and her father is
remarked. Miss Lilly declares her
father and his second wife put up a
plot to force her into a convent, but
learning of the scheme, she secured
financial aid from the A. P. A. and es-
capped to Chicago. She declines to tell
why she came to Minneapolis.