Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-04-24
CARRIED AS A MAN
HE W00ED AND WON
Strange Story of q Romance I'm
an Omaha Convent.
HAD NEVER SEEN MAN
Young Girl Placed in Convent in
Infancy Became Enamored of
First Man She Saw and Es-
capped to Wed-Is Ar
rested and Freed.
OMAHA. NEB.-speciai.-

OMA1tA, NEB.-SDCCial
Florence Tinsley, a sister In tho
convent OF tho Good Shepherd.
Thursday Joined her betrothed.
Maxwell Hirsch, outside the convent
walls. The nun was released by a
writ or habeas corpus. which proved
that she Is of legal age. which stat
ed that she and Hirsch had pledged
themselves TO each other under the
common law, which promised solemn
~ that they Will be publicly married
as soon as the girls mother arrives
In Omaha.
placed her. mere child, in the CON
vent seven years ago. that she might
be educated religiously. Eventually
she Joined the sisterhood. About six
months ago Hirsch. n handsome. light
haired fellow OF TWENTY-FIVE years
came here from Chicago and got en-
ployment In the laundry OF the nur-
sery
Charmed by n Peep.
One day he saw Miss Tinsley lean
Inc over the railing OF the elevator
SMART on the floor above the laundry
looking down on him. She had never
heard a mans voice since she enter
Cd the convent. save whom priest de-
livered a sermon there. She had never
peen outside the convent walls. her
daily exercise I'm It's courtyard was
taken I'm silence and always in com
pany with older sisters.
Again ana again the girl. a brunette
OF beautiful ngpre, returned to the
heetingly. on Hirsch. Not a word pass
ed between them. OF course. but who
telepathically. Three months ago they
began To write 20 each other. eXchanE-
ing notes, hidden In the bundles of
laundry which each nun makes up
wrapped In the minutest space pos
sible, tho girl dropped nuns garb
down the SHAFT TO her lover "A fortnight
ago. The slender. HmOoth -fuc,d Ifirach
put on the robes and. dropping tho veil
which the nuns wear when outside
th'lr Corridors, hc again ana again
entered tho han where Florence room
ed without being detected. For tho
hrst time she listened To "A man cN-
press hts love. the danger of discov-
cry made tho secret o-mal6ing more
biguant to her lie described TO her
ntg In the world; he brought books
and magazines TO her The stories sha
read seemed To tell her OF fairy
lana which lay only beyond the con-
vent walls. Iiirsch won her promise
To escape. To marry him. Solomnly. by
mutual agreement. they cstnblIshcd a
common law marriage. which they
vnnsldHrcd "s binding os their vows
plan to E~cnpc.
They planned that Florence should
escape from the nunncry on Sunday
April 18th. Ilirach smugglcd To his
lady love suit OF boys clothes; wear
ing them. with cap pulled over her
bright eyes. her face tmearcd with
dust' Pipe In her mouth. the girl
sauntercd from the laundry with
iiirsch oa II she We're some plumbers
helper who had been called there for
a trihing bit of work. lfut the Mother
SnpcriorH sharp eyes penetrated tho
disguise. Florence was torn from
liirsch; locked I'm her room: severe
p'hance was imposed on her. IIirsch
was instantly dismissed and threaten
cd with arrest FOR trying TO abduct u
girl not yet eighteen years old
NOT despnirin. Hlrsch wrote TO Flor
cncc's mother. who has married again
Mrs. pcbrumcr. West Second Street
SAT- Lax" city. She sent the anxious
loNor proof that Florence ia more than
eighteen. On this evidence he got the
writ OF habcas corpus today which
gives his bride to him.