Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-03
Arrived From Kansas in
Charge Of Her Father
Monday Noon
Preliminary Examination Of
Roses Is to Be Held
This Morning


having arrived on the noon train
Monday. Tina seems none the worse
after her long and somewhat hur-
ried trip. She says she is glad to
get home, as she was awfully home
sick and would have written her
father to that effect if she could
have written, but only having had
the advantage of three month
schooling, this was an impossibility
She stated to the Tribune Monday
evening that the reason Lawrence
Grow was down to the depot the night
of her departure was that Ross had
given him the money with which to
purcase ticket 70 rer, and denied
the statement made by Grow that
she had asked him to accompany
her.
When asked why she went to- Kan
sas, as she had no especial desire to
go, and after reaching there became
Immediately homesick to get back,
she said:
''They (the Rosses) worried me so
that I was almost crazy, and I didn't
know hardly what was doing"
It seems from her story that she
was to have stayed at the house of
Ross's father, Albert Ross, retired
farmer, until the ROSES appeared on
the scene, and she would then go with
them to Hutchinson, where she could
go to scool, being prvided with food
and clothing gratis by the philan-
thropic Roses.
When they started her off, she
says, they took all her good clothing
and packed it with their luggage,
providing her with an old suit and
hat, which necessitated her father
buying her new outfit on his arrival
at Geneseo.
1t seems also that almost immedia-
tely upon her arrival at the Ross
house in Kansas an attorney was pro-
cured to draw up an affidavit to the
effect that Tina came to Kansas en-
tirely of her own free will, and that
the Roses had nothing to do with
the move. This was urged upon the
girl, the author of the scheme rep
resenting to her that if she did not
sign it her father would have her
sent to the reform school.
This so terrorized Tina, knowing
nothing, as she did, of the ways OF
the law or the world, that she sign
ed. It is said that the younger Ross
himself, was the instigator of this
scheme. he having written down to
his father Immediately after sending
the girl off,
Tina firmly reiterates the state
ment that she is but Is years old,
not being II till about the middle OF
next month. All sorts of stories are
afloat about town as to her real age,
but this is evidently authentic.
Haas is very indignant over the
matter, and has resolved to prose
cute the ROSES to the full extent of
the law. He says that he is satisfied
that the philanthropic move on the
part of the would-be abductors, was
but one to shield their real motive;
that their wanting to get her to Kan
sas was for another purpose entire
ly, as was evidenced by their offer to
provide clothing and food for the
girl without cost.
Tina has had but three months
schooling, her parents having lived
until this fall out in the country, in
the northeast part of the county,
where there was no school. That is
te reason, e says, that he moved to
the city; to provide educational facil-
tiles for his eight children.
The preliminary hearing of the
ROSES will occur this morning at the
district court room, and promises to
be quite interesting.
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