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
rago 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, II years old. Miss Hulda
was captured by the Chicago police
just she was about to board a train
Tor 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 a 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.
the daughter also left and has been
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 it 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 ef it would not
have been so bad were it not for the
means which the young girl took to
secure the money for the trip. The
amount Of the forgery on her mother
cannot be learned at the present time
but 1t seems TO have been sufficient
sum TO pay for the cost of the two
tickets at least Mrs. Steinbach has
been notified OF her daughters deten-
tion and Sheriff Carter has gone to
Chicago to bring the girl back to her
home
Since the desertion of his wife by
Christian Steinbach. the former ha:
had sorrow heaped upon her. until al
the present time she is almost frantic
with grief. She has gamely kept up
the struggle to support her two chill
dren who remained at home with her
and who are stin younger than her
daughter. Hulda. She has taken il
washing and overworked herself in an
attempt to make both ends meet and
has been quite successful in face ot
all the difficulties and trouble which
she has had to encounter, but the latest
trouble seems TO have almost crushed
her.
The home OF the family is between
the Erie and Panhandle depots on one
of the side streets. They, together
with their efforts to force Miss Hulds
to attend school, have long been known
at the county seat. The sympathy OF
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.