The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-18
GOES TO Her HOME
Mrs. Hazel MulYane- Hurlburt
Reconeiled to Parents.
Mother Sends for Her Daughter
This Morning.
HUSBAND STAYS AWAY.
Father Says Daughter VIII Still
Have Home.
Hurlburt Denies lie Was Ever
Married Before.
HUSBAND STAYS AWAY.

Miss Hazel Mulvane, whose sensation
al elopement and marriage to ~Speck'
Hurlburt, the White Sox ball team cen
ter fielder yesterday, startled the city
returned to her home this morning and
received parental forgiveness. though
she was not accompanied by her hus-
band.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hurlburt did not leave
the city as they had planned as they
experienced so much trouble in locat-
ing the residence of J. w. Reed, the
North Topeka minister who married
them that they missed their train. They
then returned to the Chesterfield hotel
where they are making their home for
the present
This morning Mrs. G. J. Mulvane sent
for her daughter who returned to her
former home and a reconciliation was
effected, though the bride afterward re-
turned to the Chesterfield hotel where
her husband was awaiting her return.
While Mr. and Mrs. Mulvane keenly feel
the publicity which the eIopement has
occasioned they are willing to welcome
their daughter TO her home and make
the best of the matter.
Hazel is our daughter, said DR..
Mulvane this morning, "and as long as
have roof over my head she viii
have a home While we deeply depIore
the events of the past "a hours there is
nothing that I can see that we can do
but make the best of the matter as it
exists.
Hazel has had a good home all her
life and has never been denied anything
within reason that she has asked She
has always gotten along nicely at home
and 1 am at a loss to understand why
such a notion as marriage should have
entered her head She has always been
an impulsive girl and I suppose that
she acted on the impulse of the moment
when she married this man yesterday.
1t seems strange that Hazel should
become so madly infatuated with this
man HurIburt, for she has not seen
him often, as he has never been to
our home and / have never seen him
that know Of. and Hazel has not had
an opportunity to meet him, at least
not often"
Il expected that the newspapers would
I make sensation out of the marriage of
myself and Hazel said s.Spec" Hurl-
burt this morning, though I do not
think that it was just, though it is not
myself that I care for as I have been be-
fore the public for so long that have
grown used to the ways Of the news
papers.
There is but one thing that take ex-
ception to as the story was published
in the State Journal and that is the
statement that I am interested in a club
room or joint at ia Kansas avenue.
The place is owned by my brother and
the only interest that have in ii IS such
as one brother should have for the sue
cess of another.
Ny age as given in the application
for the larriage license is correct as L
was born in 1877 and am not quite thirty
years of age at this time have always
earned a fair salary and I feel that L
can support Hazel as a wife should be
supported and as we love each other |
cannot see what there is about the mar
riage to create SO much talk.
s'I will finish the ball season with
the White Sox and play in the exhibi-
ton games which will follow and then
my wife and I will probably take a
trip somewhere for a few weeks and
then we viii settle down, possibly here
in Topeka and I will probably quit the
life of a ball player and get into
business of a different nature.
"There is absolutely nothing to the
stories that are floating about that ]
have been married and now have
family in California and I am at a
loss to understand how they have origi-
mated though I am prepared to hear
most anything for a While yet"
"Speck'' Hurlburt seems inclined to
take the matter of his elopement and
subsequent marriage calmly and in
matter of fact manner. Il don't see
why such a fuss should be made over
the matter. I know that can pro-
vide for Hazel and as we are happy
and we will get along nicely. The
story published that I am SO years Of
age is absurd. I have played profess
sional ball since 7 was II years OF age
and the training Of an athlete has told
on me and as far as my grey hairs are
concerned they are family char
acteristic.'
There is a great deal Of speculation
and gossip about the former marriage
referred to by Hurlburt. Manager
Cooley of the ball team says that the
report. of a former marriage is not
true. He says he is certain that Hurl-
burt has never before been married
President D. NJ Shiveley Of the
Western Baseball association, who is
in Topeka. IS evidently of a different
opinion. ST wonder" said he today,
t'if Hurlburt has ever been divorced.
While have no positive Information
I have had two letters from a woman
who signed herself Mrs. George Hurl-
burt and who wanted to know where I
he was I referred these letters to
Hurlburt. He simply said that he
would take care of them also wrote
Spec was. That is all I know about
the matter
Mrs. Hurlburt denied the statement
that has been attributed to herthat she !
would appear at the ball park during !
the remaining games Of the series. She |
seems pleased with her choice and !
protests her love for the man whom |
she has married and contends that his /
life in the future Will be hers
Bank President Dies.