The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-26
IT'S A SPOILED ROMANCE
Halle e. Hannah Is Charged
With Larceny.
SHE PLEADS NOT GUILTY
She Is Charged With Running Away
With the Trousseau After Having
Promised to Marry Melvin,
Railroad Man.

Great Falls, Jan. 25.-Chief Guerin is
conducting the end of a spoiled ro-
nance This afternoon he brought
Hannah, charged with petit larceny.
A. l.. Melvin, q railway man, is the
prosecuting witness. About five months
ago he met Halle down in Indian Ter
ritory. She is handsome girl of II
years, and she made an impression
upon the heart of the railroader. She
and Melvin chummed around together
good deal in those days, and he was
nearly heart-broken when she went to
Fort Smith and became a house servant
in the family of a physician there.
However, Uncle Sam lent him aid as
matchmaker to the extent of the use
of the mails at the same price which he
charges Tom, Dick and Harry for the
transaction of more commonplace bust
ness, and Halle was not slow with the
pen. In fact she was warm thing, as
her letters which Melvin holds testify.
She not only wrote a good hand and
spelled her words with due respect to
the late Mr.. Webster, but the senti-
ments she thereby ex- ressed were equal
to a whist hand of IL trumps and the
ace of SHADES. She was all right and
eventually she drew Melvin again to
her side, this time at Fort Smith. AS
a conversationalist she even exceeded
the promises held out by her letters and
when Melvin choked down the lump in
his throat and tore himself away from
Fort Smith and his darling, it was all
arranged that she should come to Mon
tana and be his bride.
That thought has warmed his heart
ever since and later he sent her about
500 on which to come out She came.
to this city and he installed her at the
Milwaukee house to be his lady love
and his hearts delight. He also paid
her board and her room rent; likewise
gave her carte blanche at one of the
stores for the purpose of a proper
trousseau. She did not overlook the
trousseau, but got it at once. and to-
day wore it back from Helena in part
and brought the rest in her Valise. 1t
was a regular when Johnnie comes
home from the fair" for her and she left
no dead chips on the table. Meanwhile
Melvin was calling upon her regularly,
as often as the freight train schedule
of the Montana Central would permit,
He sked her to marry him and he
asked the Standard office not to say
anything about his approaching we'd
din until it should occur, and the
Standard has kept its promise for very
good reasons. Halle stood him off. He
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asked a months delay. Finally he got
hot md took her trousseau away, he
says, and only gave. it back to her
when she had promised to marry him.
Then she trified with him. Monday
evening, he says she went to see
''Hogans Alley" at the opera house
with another man, and yesterday she
took the stub train for Helena. Next
came the charge of petty larceny and
Chief Guerins flying trip to Helena
and return, and there the matter rests
for to-night. She was arraigned be-
fore Judge Stafford this evening,
charged with stealing the clothes. She
pleaded not guilty and will be tried to-
morrow. In the meantime Guern may
be able to plaCate the lover and even
pull off the match. i