Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-04-25

in the convent of the Good Shepherd
at Omaha, Neb., has been sent on
into the waiting arms of her sweet
heart-husband, Maxwell Hirsch, form
erly of Chicago, freed by a writ OF
habeas corpus secured on showing
that the girl was over age.
Hirsch maintained that he was the
common law husband of the young
nun, and by affidavit made before the
mother superior the nun took oath to
a nuptial agreement to consider them
judge held to be legal.
While employed in the laundry OF
the nunnery Hirsch saw the young
girl bending over the elevator shaft
on the floor above Observing the rule
against conversation with the laity, the
nun yet returned often to the shaft to
watch for her sweetheart. Three
months ago they began a correspond
ence by notes secreted in the bundles
of laundry sent by each nun to Hirsch S
department.
Two weeks ago the girl dropped a
| duplicate of the nuns garb down the
| shaft to her sweetheart, who, by DON
ming it and dropping the veil that the
nuns wear when outside their corri-
doris, entered the. hall where Sister
Florence roomed. II was in her
ROOM, risking long penance if she
should be discovered, that the nuA lis
tened for the first time to the love Of
man.
For seven years. since she was a
mere girl, she has been in the con-
vent, left there by her widowed
mother for training and eventful as
Stimulation into the sisterhoOd. Words
of love and fair face won the girl,
and she planned other meetings with
her lover. She had not heard the
voice of a man. except in the sermons
Of the visiting fathers on special occa~
sions since she entered.
lii SNIl, w ~ 10 a. SiClluCi DIoiiIt VI
%, brought her books and magazines
and told stories Of the outside world
that sounded like fairyland to the nun.
She had not been outside the walls
since entering, and her daily exercise
IN the open court was taken in silence,
and under guard of the superior.
r,,11
round figure the hot-healed girl fell
in love With her wooer. The danger
Of their secret love lent charm and
zest to the meeting. and the enforced
closeness to guard against being over
heard quickened her pulse until. life
in restraint and without the pleas
ures of life as her sweetheart painted
them became impossible to the nun.
Evening after evening the two met
for an hour at a time, he always wear
ing the nuns garb Hirsch kept ur
the courtship until he won the girls
promise 10 escape and become his WIFE,
Nun Is BctrOthed.
The girl betrothed herself to Hirsch
at last and they established a common
law marriage by mutual agreement
The escape was planned for Sunday,
April -.
Wearing boys clothes and with a
pipe in her mouth the nun was on the
point of leaving with her husband
when the mother superior discovered
them. She locked the girl in her
room and discharged Hirsch, threaten
ing arrest because the girl was under
legal age. Hirsch wired to Mrs. De-
Drummer REMARKED mother of the girl,
in Salt Lake City, and secured proof
that Florence was over IS.
On this evidence he secured a writ
OF habeas corpus and the nun-wifo
was released shortly before noon. The
plan to have a proper wedding will be
carried out as soon as the mother Of
the girl arrives in Omaha