The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

whenever Mrs. Smith was missing and
frequently sent the woman home in q
earriage, having picked her UP in the
street, or located in a drunken stupor
at some hotel.
Finally the home was broken up and
the family went to boarding at one of
the prominent hotels throughout his
sorrow Mr.. Smith had been subjected
to much humiliation, but chung tena-
ciously to the hope of redeeming his
wife. At last, however, he yielded to
the advice Of friends and sent his wife
to an inebriate asylum. While the
mother was thus incarcerated her son
died. She was brought from the asy-
lum to attend the funeral and prevail
ed upon her husband to allow her to
remain with him.
The request was granted and for a
time sorrow seemed to subdue the
Woman'S passion for liquor. She was
Cstracised by former associates, but
this made no difference in the attitude
of the husband. He surrounded her
with every comfort and care, his heart
gladdened by the seeming change for
the better, but his hopes were soon
dashed to despair.
The wife again fell. She dissipated
more wildly than ever. She was again
sent to the asylum only to fall more
utterly beyond reclaim when given
her liberty. For several years the hus-
band bore up under his disgrace, never
deserving the unfortunate woman, UNI
til finally his death left her to go I'M
restrained the way of her desires.
For a time application to former
friends kept her in some semblance Of
decent living, but for the past four
years she has been a veritable out
cast, living with whom and wherever
she could find shelter sometimes in the
squalor of an upper fiat howell, at others
sharing the filthy abode of some negro
of the Bad Lands"
Last August the woman was under
arrest in connection with the death
of Charles Larson, an eX-convict, who
was drowned by the overturning of a
boat in which he, the Smith woman,
Spider Ryan and another male COM
panion ATTEMPTED to cross the river,
near the Omaha railroad bridge. There
were ugly rumors at the time of the
accident, and though the coroners jury
exonerated those in the boat with Lar
son, the dead mans relatives insisted
that he had met with foul play.
Only once after this instance was the
woman under arrest until the stabblng
ARRAY in which Peters was wounded, as
the police seldom take her into custody
unless forced to by some outrageous be-
havior.
NnGn she SIIlelSO llIC SlciiOli liz
night of the stabbing, she presented
a most deplorable spectacle. Haggard
and worn, with her prematurely gray
hair hanging in tangles and clothing
disarranged she was a Veritable pic
ture of depravity. That there had been
a fight was evidenced by the woman's
blood stained face. She had been
viciously abused and had several cuts
about her head, while one eye was COM
pletely swollen shut and three of her
front teeth had been knocked out.
The cause of the fight was said to
have been a dispute between Harry
Baggenmiller and Archie Peters, the
wounded negro, over the affections of
Minnie Smith.
Under forty years of age, Minnie
Smith of today would never be recog-
nized as the attractive, respectable
Mrs. H. Y. Smith, whose future twelve
years ago, held such bright prospects of
all that woman could desire.
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