The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-13
Youthful Elopers arrested
While About to Leave City
on Money Obtained by the
Means of a Forged Check;
Mother Loses.
WOULD-BE BRIDE IS
CROWN POINT GIRL
14-Year-0ld Hulda Steinbach, Always
Wayward, Leaves Home to Work,
Falls in Love and Commits Forgery
to Enable Her to Go to Kansas City
With Youth She Loves.

Crown Point. Sept IA romance
filled with all the features Of a mod
ern melodrama, terminated in a Chi
cago police station yesterday afternoon,
bringing into the lime light a we'll
known though youthful character of
Crown Point. in the person of Hulda
Steinbach, IA years old Miss Huida
was captured by the Chicago police
just as she was about to board a train
for Kansas City in company of a young
man, with both tickets purchased for
their destination. That it the romantic
part of the story, but sadly enough
there appears to be crime to mar it's
beauty. The mother of the girl in
formed Sheriff Carter this morning that
her daughter had forged a check to
obtain the wherewith for the intended
elopement.
This is a sad determination to a sad
little career. Miss Steinbach has long
been known as a halter of school life
and a year ago her father was ar
rested by the Crown Point authorities
for failure TO send his child to the
public schools. The trouble was never
entirely settled it seems and the father
soon left his family and went to work
in Chicago as a carpenter. Soon after,
employed in the big city. her location
being known to her mother. But she
did not reside with her father, and both
lived separately in the same city.
Her life in Chicago might make a
tale by itself, but all that seems to be
known of her while in the windy city
was the fact that She was detained by
the Chicago police yesterday prepara-
tory to embarking for Kansas City. AT
first IT was stated that she was at
tempting TO escape the horrors of an
other year in school. but later 1t was
learned that she intended to have COM
panionship on her journey in the form
of a young man whom she had met In
the city. 1t has not developed. as yet
whether or not 1t was an actual elope-
ment with the purpose of getting mar
ried, but the evidence points to the con-
clusion.
The romance end of it would not
have been so bad were 1t not for tn,
means which the young girl took tC
secure the money for the trip. The
amount of the forgery on her mother
cannot be learned at, the Int tim,
but it seems to have been a sufficient
sum to pay for the cost of the tive
tickets at least. Mrs. Steinbach ha.
been notified of her daughters deten
tion and Sheriff Carter has gone t.
Chicago to bring the girl back to hel
home
Since the desertion of his wife by
Christian Steinbach, the former ha
had sorrow heaped upon her. until a
the present time she is almost franti,
with grief. She has gamely kept III
the struggle to support her two chill
dreu who remained at home with he
and who are still younger than he
daughter. Hulda. She has taken IL
washing and overworked herself in al
attempt to make both ends meet an,
has been quite successful in face o
all the difficulties and trouble which
she has had to encounter but the Iates
trouble seems to have almost crushe,
her.
The home of the family is betweeI
the Erie and Panhandle depots on on
of the side streets. They togethe
with their efforts to force Miss Huld'
to attend school, have long been known
at the county seat. The sympathy o
the citizens seems to rest with tn
mother, who is making an honest. un
firing effort to assume the responsible
ties left to her by her husband.