The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04
MISS HANNeBuTH HOME
Sioux City School Teacher is Back
From Chicago and Makes a
Statement to Friends.

Miss Anna 5. H~anneluth returned
to Sioux City from Chicago Tuesday,
after having gone through with a
very bitter and unfortunate eX.
perience with Fred HARRINGTON. the
details of which have appeared in
this paper.
The Sioux City Tribune, OF Tues
day, contained the following infor-
nation, resulting from an interview
the reporter OF that paper had with
Miss Hannebuth on her return:
Worn in body and mind, and only
a shadow of her former self, the
teacher stepped from the train at
9:3G this morning and was driven to
her rooms in the Reinhart hotel,
where she remained throughout the
day, refusing to see anyone but her
most Intimate friends.
IL was the pretended religious de-
votion and devout prayers of liar
rington and his oft repeated wish
''to live closer to the Master which
caused her to have all confidence in
the nan whom she intended to marry.
Miss Hannebuth told the story of
her misfortune to a representative
OF the Tribune today.
"Almost the first words he said to
me after | met him many months
ago we're that he had been the presi-
dent OF the Minneapolis Y. M. G..
A." she declared, land all through
this experience which have had the
past two weeks, up until the very
hour that | received a telegram from
the Tribune which unmasked him.
because | believed that any man
who vas as religious as / thought
him TO be was certainly an honest
man.
After Harrington had sent Miss
H%annebuth the message that he had
been %slupged and robbed, she hurried
to tue Markham Lotel. where she
was accompanied by bel cousins, and
saw two men carry Harrington 10 a
room. All through the long hours
OF the night, with her cousins, she
Kept her vigil at his bedside. 1t was
under such conditions that Ha1ring-
ton did his finest bit Of acting.
Lying amid piles of pillows, WING
log with pain which she believes now
did not exist, crying pitifu!ly when
he talked with Miss Hannbeuth,
Harrington prayed God to save his
life, and spare him that he might
keep his promise on New Years day.
when he pretended he would marry
the girl at her fathers home in
South Dakota.
Pledging his Maker ovel and over,
in The prayers which we've a mockery,
that If bis life could he spared he
would live ever closer to Him, and
would ca for the woman lie had
been pretending to love until death
should part them.
And amid such a scene OF devotion,
Miss Hannebuth was led to believe
in Harrintgon more than ever and to
accept his excuses for his mother
failing to meet them, though he
had declared that she was in Chicago.
She also believed the story that his
mother suddenly left Chicago, and
had since heen taken i'll herself. And
she urged him to 90 to her IN the
east, and said she would remain
until he returned. She FURNISHED
the money on which Harrington left
and later the telegram came from
somewhere, perhaps from a source
not outside the city OF Chicago. that
harrington was dead.
Miss Hannebuth left Sioux City
December IA for Chicago, a week
before school closed, with the inten-
ton of returning Sunday evening, to
be here in time to lake up her school
duties Monday morning. In Chicago
she was to meet Harrington's mother
from Toronto, Canada, and a brother
in-law and sister from England. AS
soon as she learned that they had not
arrived IN Chicago She went to the
hone OF her cousins at l476 Milwau-
kee avenue, where she remained
until last evening. Because Harring-
tons mother did not appear she was
persuaded to remain until Monday
afternoon, December Il. She gave
Harrington letters and Instructions
to be mailed for the teachers in her
school at North Riverside. but he
did moi mail them. Then the pre-
tended holdup followed, aud She
remained by the bedside of her faith
less lover, believing him to be linger-
ing, as he pretended, on the very
point Of death.
Never doubling that Harrington
would return, preparations were
made for the wedding to take place
New Years at Glenn. S. d. Miss
H%annebuth denied that she ever
contemplated being married in Chi
Cage, and said the trip was simply
to meet HaIrington's people, who
were to be in Chicago from Canada
and England. She did not learn bis
business address during the long
courtShip, as lie was travelling from