The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-02-01
Mrs. BonssI True 10 Miss
ACkermdn and Wentworth.
THEY STAYED AT HER HOME.
viii, the Couple Was Supposed 10 Be In
Chicago They We're Really Living In
New YeTk-Ras Gone West

New York, Feb. l-while the family
and friends OF Marie Louise Ackerman,
the heircss who eloped with George Ed
monds Wentworth. the husband OF her
best friend. have been searching Chi
cago, Miss Ackerman and Wentworth
have been quietly blding their time In
New York
For month and a day they were in
this city, leaving here for Chicago on
Tuesday last They are supposed TO be
there now. with consignment OF trunks
and furniture belonging to Miss Acker-
man, which we're supposed 10 have been
shipped to No 2O2 Edgecombe avenue.
Chicago, last Saturday, when truck
man called at the former home OF Miss
Ackerman, No. % West Fifteenth street,
with an order In Miss Ackerman's hand
writing, asking that the goods be deliver
ed TO the bearer OF the note.
Not until yesterday was IL discovered
that the goods belonging TO Miss Acker-
man instead of going To No. Doe Edge
combe avenue. Chicago had gone to No
202 Isdgecombe avenue New York. where
they were taken charge OF by Mr.. and
Mrs. Percval Ward Bensel. friends OF
the eloping pair.
According to information received by
Miss Irene Ackermsn, a cousin OF Miss
Marie Ackerman, and r. II. Johnson, n
friend of the Ackerman family. Went
worth was at Twenty-third street and
Sixth avenue last Tuesday afternoon.
lie Is said 10 have gone To the Twenty
third street ferry, crossed over TO Jer-
sey City and joined Miss Ackerman. The
two took the train for Chicago. 1t was
said further that Miss Ackerman and
Wentworth had been guests of the Ben
sells since their elopement
This isn't true Mrs. Bensel said last
night when seen at her home by re-
porter. They haven't been stopping
with us. | know where they have been
stopping and j know where they are now
and where the furniture went To that
left my house Tuesday. but i won't tell
anybody. Miss Ackernan is my best
friend. She always has been my friend.
What right has the public 10 interest
itself IN this nice, good young girl? It's
none of the public's business IL she Is In
love with Mr.. Wentworth. Is it crime
to love a man?'
Where Miss Ackerman and Wentworth
have been living since Dec. q. when they
eloped cqpld not be definitely ascertained.
That they have had apartments in the
neighborhood OF Edgecombe avenue is
certain, according to the information re-
ceived by the missing heiress' relatives.
Mrs. Bensel, who has befr'ended Miss
Ackermsn and the man she loves, has
had a romance i'm her own life. when Miss
Ackerman came to her and acted the
part of friend. Mrs. Bensel, a hand
some young woman OF "a, was Miss
Grace Fullerton.
She was married 90 David Tibbitts
when SHE was l6. Two children were
born to her, when Tibbitts suddenly dis
appeared Miss Ackerman, who was then
an active church worker and a woman
OF means, heard OF the plight OF the
girl wife and mother, and came TO her.
Tibbitts death followed.
Later Mrs. Tibbitts married Bensel. who
Is now a railroad clerk The friendship
between the two girls continued, and
when Miss Ackerman eloped she natural
ly went To the girl whom she had once
befriended when i'm trouble.
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