The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-16
The Girl
WIFE WEPT
THE COURTHOUSE AND THE
COUNTY JAIL BRING FORTH
MANY SORROWFUL TALES
OF WEAK HUMANITY.

| Two girls languished in our count,
Jail last night, and wept their heart:
out from fear and remorse this morn
ing. One of the girls is seventeen
years old and married Her name be
fore her marriage was Sarah Bur
dine and she lived with her parents
in Warrington. She married last
April good for nothing man by the
name Of Taylor who worked for a few
days in a restaurant here but work
is an exception to his rule and he
manages to exist in much the same
manner as the parasite. The girl-wife' s
sister claims that she was respecta-
Die girl up until the time when she
married Taylor and he took her to
live among disreputable people. Last
time she has gained more or less no.
toriety. There has been a warrant
out for her arrest for several weeks,
because of some scrape she and two
other girls We're caught in out about
the fair grounds.
Yesterday man by the name of
Yost, from New England, same to
this city and reported that the Taylor
girl, who had been visiting her sis
ter in his town, had coaxed his daugf1-
ter Lille, aged 13, to run away, and
her. He also accused one Chauncey
Ashby with being implicated in her
abduction, if such it could be termed.
Ashby was arrested and after some
time gave information that led Consra-
BILE Letcher Jones to go to Catawba,
where he found the girls, who had
learned from friends that they were
and were endeavoring to
elude him by making rapid tracks up
he railroad. He overlook them, how
ever, and brought them back to town,
here at three o'clock this
morning and placed both girls in
cell in the county Jail. Mr.. Yost and
wo older daughters We're in the city
Early this morning andsa most affect |
ng scene occurred at the Jail when |
hey saw their wayward sister. The |
;irl is very large for her age and is |
Influenced in a great de- |
5ree by her companion. Her father
las signified his entire willingness to |
urn her over to the Humane Society
.ho will place her in the Home of the |
Iood Shepherd in Wheeling. The girl
laims to be willing and anxious to
% if they will just take her out of ;
all. The older sir! will probably be
eld on the old warrant and as she
: beyond the age limit. the Humane
can do nothing for her, ex-
ept insure her a reception in the
4 ~ ~fIo i,lc
t to send her there.
She says she wants to go and prom
;es to reform if they will only take
er there. She cried in heart broken
,anner when the officers of the So
ety told the Yost girl they would re-
love her but did not have jurisdiction
yer her companion.
The Yost girl will probably be taken :
} Wheeling tomorrow, and when
heriff Jolliff returns from Mt. Lake
ark to-day, investigation will be
ade as to the seriousness of the
large on which the Taylor girl is
eld. and they will see if arrange
lents can not be made to send her
SO.
The family of the Yost girl are
rlef-Strlchen over tne way Lillle AaS .
,ted, and they think that the Home
doubtless the best place for her.
he sisters who came to see her this
orninS are very nice looking girls,
i'd are much humiliated over the
fair.
When questioned as to why they
ent to Catawba last evening the (.
ost girl said they were to meet TWO.
en- there. The Taylor girl denied
is and asked who they We're to meet;
e other girl said, you know, two
en- from New England; but II you
N t want to tell all right.''.5.'5'T The 6
der girl evidently did NOT want to t
II, and gave the younger one to un- y
,rstand that ii would be better If fc
"a 3did NOT 55ls5e n