Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-09
BRIDE REJOICEs
At HER FREEDOM
PRETTY NELLIE MUNDELL OUT
ON BAIL
Girl Who Married Man Three Times
Her Age May Yet Answer
to the Juvenile
Court

"Goodie, goodie, don't have to go
back to that old Jail where they feed
you nothing but cabbage"
The voice was that of an excited girl
and sthe expression one that a child
would use. Pretty little Nellie Mum
dell Of Pasadena, who has caused the
judges of the superior court more
trouble than most alleged law breakers,
fairly jumped for Joy yesterday after
noon in the appellate court when she
learned that Judge Gray had fixed her
bail at 800 and that her husband, Bud
Lewis, had paid that amount as surety
for his wife's appearance in court
Monday.
The girl was taken before the off,
cials of the higher court early yester-
day afternoon by her attorney, "Habeas
Corpus" Ladd, while officials in de-
partment eight of the superior court
were waiting for the girl to appear
there so that they might try her on
charges of incorrigibility.
Hurries From Jail
But Nellie had not spent the past
year in the local courts for nothing
and she understood the wisdom of the
law and did not care to take chances
with 1t. So when her attorney an
nounced that she would be tried by the
proceedings she hurried in her anxiety
to get away from Jail.
Hello, Bud" announced the girl as
she walked into the higher court and
left Sheriff White to join her husband,
Bud Lewis, to whom she was married
secretly at San Bernadino after hav-
ing eloped from home and violated the
orders of the court.
She took a front seat and prepared
tn 1an nxyf6 ct
ment her parents entered the court
room.
"Thars Bud over thar now," said
the father and the bailiff suggested
that he might take off his hat while
in court.
During the examination by the
judges the girl nodded her head Wig
orously and contended that Judge Will
bur Of the superior court had nothing
no longer n juvenile, being over six
teen years of age and married with the
consent of her parents.
Judge Wilbur isn't my father and
mother together and I'm a married
woman now," said the girl. "Since
I'm married 1 don't care whether they
send me out to Whittier or not. If
they do 1 can be chaperon for the rest
of the girls out there
we WOulu ike 10 nave Nell1e re-
leased on bail so that she can attend
church and Sunday school," announced
Attorney Ladd, and the jubilant Nellie
tried to look demure as she glanced at
her husband, who sat beside her.
When the girl was told that she
might go home until Monday, when the
habeas corpus proceedings would be
taken up, she leaped to her feet and
hugged her husband and then patted
Attorney Ladd on the back in such a
husky fashion that the old gentle
mans breath was nearly jammed out
of his body. +EH
According to Attorney Ladd's state
ment yesterday he will file a petition
to prohibit the juvenile court from
further proceedings with the case on
the ground that the girl is over the
age of 16 and married with the con-
sent of her parents
Nellie Mundell returned to her home
in Pasadena yesterday afternoon to
spend, her honeymoon there. For the
past six months the courts have tried
to prevent her marriage to a man
three times her age and now that she
is married her husband will fight any
charges against her.