The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-18
GIRL GOES BACK HOME
LULU TAMBLIN, LOCATED IN MONT
 GOMERY, RETURNS HOME.
She Was Lufed Away From Parents in Georgia by Her Cousin
 tn Marry Fred sly.

.train No. of the Central Of Georgia Railway steamed out of the Montgomery Union Station at S:1O o'clock yesterday morning It snapped the last link in the shattered romance of an unsophisticated 16-year-oid coun- try girl. In the first-class aaoh of the train were three persons, two men ana a girl, about whom there s mget i1E teresting and decidedly uhhsual NtorD
 In last Saturdays Advertiser there wos q story of the strenuous experi- ence of Lula Tamblin, of her reaching Montgomery and being cared for at the home of Mrs. Page, 220 Bibb street: The account of herself that the girl rave to both Station Officer McHae anu The Advertiser was merely the prelude to A story that shows to what depth of infamy a man may sink
 Several weeks ago this girl In com pany with a man got or one or Ihe Western Railroad trains at the ohloh Station and asked the way to board ing house, making the statement that thev were husband and wife. Nothing more was heard of them until last week when this same girl got OH Mobile and Ohio train. She had been to Meridian, Miss, she said, but the man who had claimed to be her nus band when they passed through Mont gomery was not with her. In Meri- dian she stated that she was waiting for a man by the name of Fred Sly, who was to marry her there. Her statement not satisfying the Chief Of Police of Meridian, he took her Tn charge and the Mayor bought her ticket to Montgomery and sent her here.
 In Montgomery the girl stated that she was married to Fred Sly and that he would be in Montgomery last sun day. Sly has never put in his appear ance in Montgomery, and his very eN- istence Is doubtful.
 Monday morning the little Tamblin girl went to the Union Station, and through the kindness of officer Frank McRae wrote a letter to a girl friend in Columbus, Ga. Then her story be- gan to unravel with a rapidity that was startling.
 On a late train that night two men reached Montgomery. Iheir names were Hughes and Russell, the trst neiEhbor of the Tamblins near Colum- bus and the other first cousin of Isula TambIin. For nearly month past these two men had, at the ex- pense of MT. Tamblin, made sys- tematic search for the ubiquitous Fred Sly and his supposed wife. At the sta ton here they met Officer McRae, and he went with them to Mrs. Pages boarding house on Bibb Street. Thelr search had ended.
 It did not take much persuasion for them to gain the girls consent to re- turn home with them. Yesterday the happy trio started the 16-year-old child going back to a loving, forgiving mother and father, who will do every thing to make her forget an unpleasant past and smooth the way for bright future.
 Before leaving Montgomery the girl made the following confessions: 'srhe man I was with when you met us at the depot the first time," she said turning to officer McRae, was | my first cousin, MT. Jones. Fred Sly and I had agreed to. elope and Fred gave Jones $45 to take me to Meridian. When my cousin told you that he was my husband I was sorry to tell you story but I thought that things would be better If said nothing. That night at the boarding house that you so kind Iy took us to, my cousin tried to make me promise to marry him instead of Sly. I refused and sat up all night. The next morning we went to Lapine. and again he tried to make me marry him. Tn Laplne he became very vio- lent, threatening to kill both himself and me if did not marry him. Fin ally he became so abusive that the peo- pie of Lapine made him leave that place Then I went on to Meridian by myself to meet Fred Sly. who had promised to marry me there. What has happened since you know" The three persons went from Mont gomery to the home of young Russell's father In Goshen. Pike County, and from there they will go on to the home of the girls parents in chattahooehee' County. Georgia, near Columbus.
 The whereabouts of the unnatural cousin. Jones. or Fred Sly is still shrouded in mystery.
 Little Lula Tamblin is not trying to locate them. She has gone home. sadder. very much, but wiser very much-