The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
PROMISE IS KEPT.
A Chicago Girl Agrees to Marry
an Admirer
Ii He Will Rescue Her From a
Cell in Jail.
HE PUTS UP A BOND
Just as a Rich SuitOr From
Nevada Appeared.
Old Engagement Is Broken
Then and There.

| Chicago. Sept. 13.-Emily Howe, %
! years old, recently of Minnesota, last
| night was the heroine of a romance in
the Harrison street police station, Civ
ing herself as wife to a Chicago letter
carrier, who beat her betrothed, a
Nevada mine owner. by two minutes in
furnishing bonds for the release of the
fair captive held on a charge of taking
tnlngs from a state street store.
This charge Miss Howe denies and
the strenuousness of her assertions and
the faith of her friends point to her
innocence.
Frank NJ. Crosby, the mine owner to
! whom she was engaged, and who was
her g1rlhood's sweetheart away back at
Glencoe. Mimi, was heartbroken as he
saw her leave the station with his rival
L. J. Hawthorne. These men had never
met until they stood at the sergeants
desk last night.
Her case was continued ten days All
efforts of the matron to learn some
thing of the girls histo:y were unavaiI-
ing as she said she preferred life i'm
prtsonment to letting her friends know
of her arrest.
Yesterday, however, she changed her
mind and she sent word to Hawthorne
asking him to procure a bondsman for
her He called at the annex late in the
afternoon and after hearing her version
of the charge against her, declared he
would not rest until he procured her re-
lease.
Tom," said the girl as tears streamed
down her cheeks, IN marry you.
You've my promise, I'll keep it no mat
ter what nappers."
Wednesday night there arrived In
Chicago from Nevada the man who was
the sweetheart of Emily Howe, when
they both went to the little red school
house at the cross roads. Crosby had
not seen EN-" as he called her since
he left Glencoe six years ago to make
his fortune in the Nevada gold fields
They had corresponded regularly, how
ever, and in one of his letters, written
six months ago Crosby proposed mar
riage. He-was accepted.
Miss Howe had removed to Chicago
from Minnesota three years ago, and
until recently she lived with an aunt,
Mrs. Vienna Cooley.
On Crosbys arrival in Chicago he
went to the home of Mrs. Cooley and
there learned that Miss Howe had
moved to the north side He had some
difficulty in finding the bakery in Wells
street where she was employed as
not heard from the girl since she left
a week ago
Crosby hurried to the central sta
ton and gave description OF MS
with harm.
TWO hours later he was informed
that the missing girl' was a prisoner
at the Harrison street annex. He was
told by the police that he could pro-
cure her release on a bond of $1,000.
Crosby had more than that amount of
money with him which he was willing
to put up as a cash deposit. Only real
estate bonds are accepted by the mu-
nicipal courts.
Crosby started to find a man who
would sign the bond for considera-
ton.
At $50 o'clock with a bondsman.
Crosby rushed up to the sergeant 8
desk and asked that Emily Howe be
brought from her cell
The sergeant informed Crosby that
Miss Howe would be free as soon as he
finished recording the bond offered by
uan standing at the desk. Crosby dis
covered his successful rival and SOON
heard his fate. AS the girl appeared |
and greeted Hawthorne, according to her
promise, Crosby sought to remind her
of her previous engagement. Dangling !
a necklace of nuggets, which he had |
dug out of his mine at Goldheld. Crosby !
tried to lure the girl away from his rival
but she shook her head.
IF you had been the first to reach the |
station she said, Il would go with you |
and become your bride, but 1 promised |
Tom 1 would marry him if he got me |
out of Jail. I'm sorry for you, Frank, but |
I must keep my promise"