Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-04
HOWARD LOSES SWEETHEART
Wilhelmins sadler Given Into the Custody
Of Her Mother.
she IS THEN HURRIED OFF TO ST. LOUIS
Mrs. sHdler Contends She f. stiI Resi-
dent of Texas and Daughter
IL Minor Under that
states Law.

Among the passengers In the sleeping car
Tivola when 1t left Omaha over the Wabash
at 5:55 last night for st. Louis were Mrs.
Mamie Sadler of 11sh North Fifteenth
street, her daughter, wilhelmina, and De-
tective Drummy. The mother was fearful,
the girl was sobbing and the detective
didn't appear particularly hilarious, for be-
tween the women was an estrangement
which seemed wholly unnatural and which
made the situation Embarrassing for all
three.
Wilhelmina is the girl for whose love
Dorre S. Howard. a messenger boy aged Is,
twice shot himself In the breast Saturday
afternoon a week ago at the Arcade hotel.
TO which place the girl had betn invited by
Walter w. DAILY OF st. Louis, a friend of
her mothers and a supposed sutton Of the
girl. After the shooting the boy was taken
to the Central hospital and with him went
W~ilhelmina, who has been a faithful and
vlgilant volunteer nurse ever since. Yes /,
terday afternoon the boy had recovered
sufficiently to return to the rooming place
at 1874 North Fifteenth street, conducted by
his father, and again Wilhelmina Travelled
with him.
On December % she was IS years old and
had broken with her mother, partly on the
boys account, and gone to live with an
other girl at Seventeenth and California.
After the shooting she announced a deter
mination to live with Dorre's parents as
soon as he returned to them. They were
willing. but her mother was not. The lat
ter vowed that the Towards fiat was no
At place because Maloney theater girls
roomed there and she sought a way to pre-
vent her daughters going to the place.
Attorney John o. Yeiser found, in the
peculiarities of the Texas law. a means to
accomplish Mrs. Sadler's purpose. In Ne
braska a girl becomes OF age upon her
eighteenth birthday, but the laws OF Texas,
section 2471. read: Male persons under q
years Of age and females under p years Of
age who have never been married are
minors" Moreover, until 2 child is Of age
his or her home is considered in law to be
properly wherever the parents domicile
may be. Wilhelmina never has married and
her mother claimed Texas as properly their
domicile.
Sentinel Has Long Vigil.
With these facts as arguments, Attorney
Yeiser secured an order for a writ Of
habeas corpus last Friday and had a senti-
mel posted in Mrs. sadler's windows to
detect the arrival of the boy and the girl
at the Howard fiat across the street. 1t
was q long vigil, but finally was rewarded
yesterday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock. AS
soon as the girl had time to become settled
in the apartments the Towards had pre-
pared for her, Detectives Drummy and
Mitchell called and, without protest from
the senior Howard, took the girl before
Judge Baxter, who had Issued the writ.
The mother, being called as the first wit
ness. testified that her husband, the girls
father, had been divorced a dozen years
ago, had not been heard from in ten years
and was supposed to be dead; that mother
and daughter came to Omaha from San
Antonio, Tex, only for the exposition OF
1898; that the mother became involved In
a business way and had to stay longer;
that the girl was placed in Mount st.
Mary's academy at Fifteenth and CASTELAR,
streets and did so we'll in music that the
mother has remained in Omaha expecting
the daughter to complete her training next
May; that three months ago the girl was
expelled for slipping from the convent at
night and remaining away with Dorre
Howard until a tardy morning hour; that
Notwithstanding this, the mother hoped 70
have her reinstated and then go back Ia
Texas in the spring. Mrs. Sadler denied
ever intending to make Omaha her perma-
nent home.
wilhelmina on the stand said she had
always looked upon Texas as home, but
that her mother did not understand her
and they could not get along together any
where. The only other witness was De-
tective Dummy. who gave Il as his opinion
that the Howard fiat was not a proper
place for the girl to be.
Judge Baxter was thus persuaded tha'
the mothers domicile is properly In Texas
that the girl is therefore subject to the laws
of Texas and hence a minor. subject tc
her mothers control. He accordingly
signed an order giving the parent the Gus
tody. and the s%obbing. disappointed and
estranged daughter was railroaded to st
Louis. where DAILY lives and where there /:
a satisfactory convent, before she could
get to see her youthful lover. To a re,
porter she declared she would kill herself
II the new conditions are insisted upon by
her mother.