Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-04-22
DISGUISED AS A BOY
She TRIED TO ESCAPE
Caught by Mother Superior, Lover
Went to Court and Secured Her
Release by Habeas corpus.-To Be
Married Soon.

CnlcdgO, April Zl.-A special 10 the
Inter-Ocean from Des MONIES says:
Courted by her sweetheart wearing
one of the nun gowns, Florence Tins
Icy, sister in the Convent of the
Good Shepherd at Omaha, Neb., was
today sent out into the waiting arms
of her Observation-Disclosures, Maxwell
Hirsch, formerly of Chicago, freed by
a writ of habeas corpus secured on a
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
mutual agreement to consider
themselves as man and wife, which
the Judge held to be legal
While employed in the laundry Of
the nunnery Hirsch saw the young
girl sending 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 cor
respondence by notes secreted in the
bundles sent by each nun to Hirch's
department.
Two weeks ago the girl dropped a
duplicate of her nuns garb down the
shaft to her sweetheart, WHO'D, by
looming it and dropping the veil that
the nuns wear when outside their
corridors, entered tre hal where
Sister Florence roomed. 1t was in
her room, risking long penance If she
should b. discovered, that the uuii
listened 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 eventual as
similation into the sisterhood. Words
of Love anu a fair face won the girl
and she planned other meetings with
her lover. She had not heard the
voice Of man, except in the sermons
OF the visiting fathers and on special
occasions since she entered.
Hirsch, who is a slender blond of
25, brought her books and magazines
and told stories like fairy land to
the nun. She had not been outside
the walls since entering, and her
daily exercise and under guard of the
superior
| flashing brunette, with a full
round figure, the hot-headed 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
overheard quickened her pulse until
life in restraint and without the
pleasures of life as her sweetheart
painted them became impossible to
the nun.
Evening after evening the two
met for an hour at time. he always
wearing the nuns ga'L. Hirscb kent
up the courtship until he won the
girls promise to escape and become
his wife.
The girl betrothed herself to Hirscb
at last and they established com.
mon law marriage by mutual agree.
ment. 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 AMI discharged Hirsch, threat
ening arrest because the girl was
under legal age. Hirsch wired TO
Mrs. Debrumer, remarked mother of
the girl, in Salt Lake City. and Sc.
cured proof that Florence was over
Is.
On this evidence he today secured
a writ Of habeas corpus and the nun
wife was released shortly before noon
They plan to have a proper wedding
will be carried out as soon as the
mother of the girl arrives in Omaha.