Amador ledger., 1907-04-12
LURED FROM HOME.
Country Girl Forced to Marry.
Sacramento Rea. ApriI s.

to? l want you to come home. oh.
want you to come home,' we're th,
words OF heart-broken mother as sh,
threw herself into the arms of her only
daughter, for whom she had beer
searching for days, and with heart.
rendlng sobs, poured out the flood oI
her pent-up grief on her daughter s
shoulder.
The scene, of this pathetic meeting
was in dark hallway in a roomiDg
house at Fourth and j streets, Satur-
day morning, and was the result of a
weary search of many days on the
part OF Mrs j. II. White, wife of a
ranchman residing near Plymouth,
for her minor daughter, Catherine,
who she declared had been inveigIed
to leave school and run away from
home with a heaItless wretch by the
name of William A. Good, who, she
says, committed perjury to secure
marriage license and who married the
girl against her consent, ostensibIy
to secure possession of some cattle
that the girl owns.
His Story OF Substantiated. ~:
Good went to Plymouth about three
month ago, claiming to hail from San
francisco and stating that he had lost
all of his property in the disaster of
last spring. Subsequent inquiry re-
veaied that he beat his way to the
coast this winter from EIkhart, In
diana. He secured employment in a
store at Plymouth and while engaged
in this capacity met Catherine Nc
Donald, an innocent. minded school
girl about II years of age.
Learning that her father had left
her some property at the time of his
death, Good set about winning the
girls confluence. He gave, up his
position in the store, and by working
for very low wages, obtained a job
on the ranch belonging to the girls
stepfather, j. Ii. White. After he
had become ingratIated with the girl,
he came to Sacramento and worked
for few days. In a restaurant near
the water front.
.Inveigles Girl Away.
About the 18th OF March. he again
appeared at the White. home and
stated that his father and sister were
coming from the East for an extended
visit and requested Mrs White to
allow Catherine to come to this city
to entertain his sister while she was
here. 10 this Mrs White gave her
reluctant consent, with the under
standing that the girl should make
her home with her aunt, Mrs +. P.
Coyle, who resides at Twenty third
and c streets.
From the time that the girl left
home until her distracted mother
found her Saturday morning, she
has been under some mysterious and
irresistible influence that she can no
more describe than she could resist. !
Between heartbroken sobs, she stated
to a Bee reporter this morning that
Good told her before they reached
this city that they we're going to be |
married as soon as possible, that he |
had made all arrangements for
costly furnished home and that he
would fix it so that everything would
be all right.
Could Not Resist.
Upon reaching this city, Good |
secured a room for the girl on
Eighth street and one for himself |
down near the water front, taking
her giip with him. Early the follow
ing morning he appeared at her apart
ments with marriage license and |
commanded her to follow him and |
do as he told her. Catherine, in her
simrle, childish way, said: 81 knew
when we started out to be married |
that | should refuse, knew some way
that what we we're doing was not |
right but l seemed just like some |
other person. 1t seemed ike i !
couldn't think straight, L really
didn't know what l was doing. And |
when | was answering the questions, |
ne would tell me what to say, but it !
seemed like shouldn't say what he |
told me to. but l couldn't help it. |
The first thing l knew we we're out
on the street again and he told me
we we're married. -aB -, - |
"Ihen he commenced to beg me to,l
write an order to Mr. White and tell
him to let Good sell my cattle, but |
wouldn't do that, so last Saturday he
got me job on q street and told me
that he was going out to Plymouth to
collect some money that man owed
him out there. When he came back
on Wednesday be told me that be
didn't get the money ana we would
both nave to go to work, so he got me
a job as cham mbermaid in a lodging
house and he got job as porter there.
Took Child -Wife's Watch.
"wednesday night he picked my
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