The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-12
DRIVEN INSANE
BY SCANDAL
Miss Howe's Reason Said to
be Tottering on Account
of Disgrace.
MAYNARD ONE returns
Girl Who ElOped With Coachman
Welcomed Back With Tender
Words-Now a Prisoner.

It is rumored about Chesterton ana
the neighborhood about the Bailey town
homestead. from which Miss Emma
Bachman Howe made her sensational
elopement with the coachman. Gustava
Christianson, that the scandal and pub-
licity about the affair has dethroned the
reason of the girls foster mother. Miss
Frances Howe. Miss Howe. who wei-
coined the wayward girl home early
yesterday after an absence Of thirty
six hours in company with her lover, is
today said to be mental wreck. going
from one fit of Mysteries to another
with alarming persistency.
The girl is a prisoner, it is said, being
locked in her own room, and she weeps
constantly for the man who is a part
ner in her disgrace The latter is now
about Chesterton, complaining bitterly
of his fate and declaring he will not
leave until he is accompanied by the
young heiress.
The details of the elopement were
printed exclusively in THE LAKE COUNTY
TIMES Saturday, and has been a subject
of constant discussion ever since. 1t is
now claimed that the coachman is a
/ IWelI-EOunGctGQ OdnG VI dElGLOGIdAiC
family whom the younger Miss Howe
met while abroad. He is said to have
followed her to this country to presas
his suit
! Although the coachman and Miss
Bachman- Howe had spent thirty-six
hours together she denied that she had
married him, and at midnight in a Ho-
bart livery barn told him in plain
language that she would never become
his wife
Until late Saturday night the couple
spent most Of the time in their buggy
driving from one town to another. The
young woman hesitated to get married
at once, waiting to first receive the
foster mothers permission. They came
to Hobart late Saturday night and en-
gagged lodging quarters in the Hobart
house. Their horse was stabbed in Duffy
De Frances livery barn. In their buggy
they carried a telescope, containing
some of the clothes belonging to both
of them.
Shortly after midnight Miss Howe
arose and went to the livery barn and
asked for her horse, saying that she in
tended to drive home alone. The horse
was given her, but after having driven
out into the country for several miles
SIE lOSl ncI way anu iGlui4t0 " I1O-
bart this time going to the Shearer
livery barn, and there asked Bert Pierce
one of the barnmen, to take her to the
Bailey town homestead, fifteen miles
away. While in the Shearer livery barn
Marshal Fred Rose brought in the
coachman, who had asked the marshaTs
assistance in locating Miss Howe. say
ing that she had robbed him before
leaving her room. When brought face
to face with the heiress he repudiated
his charge and instead pleaded with her
to marry him. This she fatty refused,
and, after giving him ten dollars with
which to pay the hotel charges. and de-
manding a receipt for the money, she
drove away leaving him alone in Ho-
bart
Reaching the Bailey town homestead
she requested her driver to ring the
door-bell, which he refused to do. She
then did it herself, and was met by her
foster mother, who first of all asked for
the horse. The daughter seemed to be
offended by this reception, and asked
her foster mother DO you care more
for the horse than you do for me?'
"Oh. no, darling" was her answer.
Miss Howe retired Immediately and
slept until late in the forenoon, when
she heard q commotiOn beneath her
window. and looking out, saw the
coachman, who had come from Hobart
in a separate rig.
l The elder Miss Howe refused him ad-
mission, but he maintained that he was
there to get his bride, as she had prom
ised him to be his wife. The younger
5 girl herself gave him no satisfactory
answer, and asked him to mind her fos-
= ter mother and leave the premises until
l she herself had decided what she would
D do
E It is said that the foster mother has
: given her daughter q choice to choose
e between the enormous Howe estate OF
the eoachman.
a Marshal Rose and Charles Traeger
Y went 10 the Bailey town homestead to-
: day in order TO claim the 500 reward
which was offered for the return OF
+ Miss Howe.
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