The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-10
CELL A H|DlNGPLACE.
Miss Marie Hill, Member of
Choir, Under Arrest.
She Had Been ShopIifting; TAX
en- to the BrideWell.
Friends We're Hunting High and
Low for Her.
Under Assumed Name; Studied
Prisoners Conditions.

Chicago, Nov. Awhile friends and
Louise Hill, member of the choir. at the
Moody church, student of sociology and
commanding the respect of those who
knew her intimately, she has been a
prisoner at the bridewell, committed to
the institution on her plea of guilty as
shoplifter. She was sentenced Oct.
10, the day following her disappearance,
under the name of Annie Herald.
Her dual existence and the mystery
of her departure from her boarding
place, 244 Ohio street, ended yesterday,
when the matron at the bridewell con-
fronted her with her picture in a news
paper and she admitted her identity.
She had concealed it, she said, because
she wished to return to her friends with
character unstained.
! The police were notified and Miss
Hill, concealment no longer possible, re-
quested that DR.. w. S. Jacoby, assis-
tant pastor of the Moody church, and
Mrs. H. Z. Brown, from whose house
she disappeared, be summoned. Mrs.
Brown had reached the institution and
obtained Miss Hills release by paying
the part of her fine not worked out
when DR.. Jacoby and Detective Rohan
arrived.
Miss Hill was taken to the Chicago
avenue station and was questioned by
Captain Healy. Then she went away
with cousin, Frank G. Kimball 3044
Lake Park avenue. She announced that
she intended to leave Chicago.
When Miss Hill left her boarding
place the day of her disappearance. she
| said, she went to a stock brokers' in
Dearborn street with whom she had
dealings relative to gas stock, which
She had purchased Then she went to
/ q publishing house, for which she in
tended to canvass Having drawn 500
from. bank, She spent several hours
shopping. At five o'clock she was seen
tby IA house detective in State street
| department store concealing a SIS silk
waist on her person. Policemen Far
reilly. and Burns took her to the Cen
trail station, where. according to Far
reilly, she wept and said that she took
it without thinking. 81 aa,Gu4 a5sa
She gave the assumed name and said
that her occupation was that of a writ
er. Next day she pleaded guilty be-
| fore Justice Caverly in the Harrison
street police court and was fined SIC
and COSTS Twenty days remained yes
terday of her term in the bridewell. She
was employed there in scrubbing and in
the sewing room, and, when too i'll to
work, read to the other prisoners.
Il had spent $40 shopping and had
plenty left to pay my fine" she told
the police, 'but would not do so be-
1 cause l wanted to go to the bridewel
/ to study the prisoners. have been in
|terested in sociology and thought it an
| opportunity to extend my studies"
| Miss. Hill is fraiI. weighing little
over 100 pounds. Her dress when she
| was arrested and when released yester-
day was black taffeta silk, and she
| wore black straw turban. She was
! thinly clad.
| Questioned about the letters she had
| received under assumed names, she said
the names were those of girl friends,
for whom she had consented to conduct
the correspondence, and that her deal
ings with matrimonial bureaus were on
behalf of such friends.