Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-23
Both Were Shoeless and Suffer-
 ing From Exposure.
WOMAN HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS

Threatened by Her Husband She Fled
 Into the Darkness Up by 2
 Hackman-!The Two Were Brought
 to the Police Station Superintendent
 Doran is Now Investigating the Case.
 A sad case came to the attention of the police last evening. A young wo- man who seems to have been Known here in very good circles once, was found on Baldwin street by hack driver wandering with her child, little girl, ill the south part of the city. Both were barefooted. About five years ago she became the wife of an Italian named Salmeato. Tester day afternoon she had quarrel with him, rumor has it that they were not living very happily, and he threaten ed her with an axe. She fled from the house and took refuge in a saloon for while. Then she left and was found later by a hack driver who thought the best place for her and her child was in the custody of the poor author ities. She was taken to the police sta- ton and detained there all night This morning Chief Egan not knowing what to do with her, and not wishing to send her adrift again with her child, both of them shoeless and evidently suffering from want of proper care, | the poor authorities were informed and they took charge of them.
 l There being no charge against the | woman she was turned over to the l board of charities, who sent herseir and child to the Brookside home, where she will remain pending further inves- | tigation. If the story she tells be true | it explains why so many strangers have been seen vending their way into Mohawk park during the past year or 1 so and may furnish a little information l for the police department which, per- | haps, they were not aware of before. | The town clerks records show that a l license was issued to her and the man | she has been living with on September 9 of this year, but no return was made of the certificate and she does not know of any marriage ceremony being l performed beyond what passed in the | town clerks office when they were | given the license. She also stated that l other women stop at the house and a I great number of men call there. She | tells different stories regarding her age \ and place of birth. She said to-day l that she is only 19. but on the license l issued to her last September the age is I % To some of the officials she claims to have been born in New York city, | while she tells others that she belongs | in Greenpoint, IL. I. She also claims to be native of Lexington. Ky, where she married man named Ragland. by whom she had one child, Hattie May. 4 years old. When she got the license here she said it was her first marriage and that her name was Lillian Wagner Now she claims that her maiden name was Raynor, and that her father, David
 Raynor, lives at Riverhead, l.. l., and owns a farm there of 1S0 acres. Stu. perintendent Doran is Investigating
 and expects to be able to get at the facts some day.
 But it does not make any difference
 what the woman's name was before
 she was married or where she came from; it is certain that herself and a
 man made things lively on the lower
 end of Sylvan avenue yesterday after
 noon and it took the neighbors a long
 time to find what it was all about. The
 youngsters were about the only ones
 who seemed to know much about 1t
 duu luty dlulUSL luISOL .tuS ucdI dV
 proach of visit from Santa Claus te
 tell of the man with the axe, the bare
 footed woman with little girl in hel
 arms rushing here and there througf
 the brush in the vicinity of the Mul
 cahy school building. Chief Egan sait
 to-day that he knew nothing about tn,
 case except that woman was brough
 ill last night who was not in fit con
 dition to be on the streets and that h,
 had turned her over to the board o
 charities. There is more than that t, it and the people of that district hop' the police department will give tn, : matter some attention and see if the,
 can ascertain what it is that attract
 such large numbers of strangers int,
 that part of the town at all hours O
 the night There may be nothing il it, but while little credence can be at
 tached to what this woman says, 1 certainly confirms the suspicious O
 people who have been suspectin, strange goings on the past year or tw' l in that section, and it might be well t
 find out what there is to it.