The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-25
PIucksd From To Altar and
Landed Behind Prison Bars.
GsOoM TRYING TO GET BAIL.
She Lost a Livery Rig While on a FroIc and
Then Jumped Her. Ball.

New York. April 25.-weep.ng over the
fate which plucked her from the altar
and placed her behind prison bars. Eliza
beth Bass OF New Rochelle. pines In a
cell of the Westchester county jail at
White Plains, accused of having stolen
a horse and then jumped her bail.
Meanwhile Robert v. Mclaughlin, a
spice merchant. OF No 50 Pearl street,
who was TO have welded her in the
Little Church Around the Corner" to-
day is busy seeking bail for her. and
anx.ously awaiting the answer 10 a tele-
gram he sent to his wealthy father In
New Mexico yesterday. urging him to
wife the necessary 1000 for his brides
liberation.
One afternoon early in October Lizzie
Bass and Carrie Johnson, an old school
g mate. hired horse and buggy from DIR.
a. B. Marsh of Mount Vernon and. af-
ter q frolic. In which several local hotels
were visited. somehow lost the horse.
NJ IS Johnson disappeared but Miss Bass
was arrested. and charged with the theft
of the horse. which was afterward re-
turned by a formers boy. who had found
II wandering cross fields.
Her step-uncle an alderman In New
Rocheii-, went her bail in $1,000, her trial
being set down for April T. The girl be-
came frightened and disappeared
She came TO New York TO work "a an
artist and met with success. designing
costumes for big department store. She
was afraid TO live under her own name,
and took that OF Lizzie Hawse. She af-
terward changed IL to Bessie Hacker
when she leased furnished apartment in
the Monterey, at lf7 East Thirtieth
street
BOTH IN THEIR TEENS.
Some ar. students introduced her to
MIR. Mclaughlin. who father had just set
him up In the spice business. Lizzie is
Just IS.
But the aldermanic uncle became dan
gerously III. and his wife was afraid Liz
. zies bond would be forfeited. The West
, chester authorities notified him that un-
less the girl were produced by April he
would have to pay the amount OF the
bond He began an investigation, OF
which Miss Bass learned. Then Miss
Bass inserted the following in the local
paper:
Died-Os consumption at sanitarlum
near Stamford. Conn, Elizabeth, eldest
laughter OF Mrs Louise Bass, In the
18th year OF her life.
This queted the aldermans wife for a
while, but the affectionate girl artist
could not keep away from her home. and
began to pay clandestine calls to her
mother In New Rochelle after dark
These soon became known to the alder
mans wife. She notified District At
torney Addison Young. and Policeman
Fennel OF the New Rochelle force arrest
ed Lizzie as she was entering her old
home through the kitchen door.
Mother and daughter embraced and 81
-..,l, L.. fafn aA nnl a N
called for help. neighbors wife came
and resuscitated both women. The first
words OF the girl were;
"Ot. let me die 1t would be better than
to bring this terrible disgrace on Robbie""
~ SwEETHEART'S FAITH IN HER.
AS soon as she reached the Jail she
sent "A messag, TO her intended husband.
who took the first train. All he had with
the exception OF his return ticket was a
s. hill. He gave this to his fiancee, saying:
Bessie. darling, you must at least have
money for decent food BY Friday / VIII
have cash bail for you, for you have done
nothing wrong. The man has his horse.
md YOU did not know il was wrong TO run
aN ~"
In her cell last night Miss Bass said:
What shall dc? l know they will send
mo 10 prison for life. We never intended
10 steal that horse We paid the man 81
for its use. but we drank terrible lot OF
:. champagne. My old school friend was
used TO IL. but / was not. After the pop
- OF the first cork / was irresponsible, and
after the last I did not know what was
going on When we came TO look for the
old horse he was gone. suppose he wan
dered away
Mrs. Bass. the girls mother was COM
pletely prostrated yesterday by the arrest
OF her daughter. She suffers from heart
trouble A year ago her eldest son, a con-
tuctor on the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad, was run over and kill
ed.
''My daughter and Mr. Mclaughlin
were TO have been married tomorrow.
she said yesterday but they may be
vet. This will not deter him from marry
ing her"