The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21
From the New York World.


 VAMES HEBBARD slipped from his fo)l home at No GA West One Hun
 dred and Thrty-slxth street early yesterday. thinking of love and grasping in one hand valentine and in the other a bunch of violets. The moon lighted his way and a breeze from the nearby Hud- son famed his fevered temples. He ven tured along in the night to the home of his beloved, Miss Celia Johnson, whose blue eyes brighten the household of her mother and father, MT. and Mrs. Fred erick J. Johnson, at No. 5S7 Riverside Drive, around the corner from Richards home.
 It was shortly after midnight when the young man reached the outer portals. A profound consideration halted him there. MT. Johnson did not like him. Also Mrs. Johnson did not like him. He had come to know it in his two years of ardent courtship.
 Hebbard determined to be brave, so he boldly entered the door of the apartment house. He crept silently through the main hall, past the elevator and into the narrow passageway leading to the Johnson apart ments. Reaching a window which over looked their sleeping rooms, he pushed up the sash and leaned out. Then he climbed over the sill until he could touch the window of Miss Celias bedroom, which he softly opened Hebbard gave a low whistle, but there was no answer. All was apparently well. l1f+ fxx-tet I1 fhn xrin nfC | through the opening and they settled | firmly in the yawning mouth of MT. Fred erick J. Johnson. Mir. Johnson attempted to cough. In his sleepy state he reached forth, to find foreign growth between l his lips and as he started to remove it his nose was clipped by the edge of q pretty valentine, which fell away to make l room for a burning love letter which fol- l lowed.
 | MT. Johnson became thoroughly con- scious and when he opened the valentine and read "To you. my love-" he grew peevish. Hebbard was waiting expectant- ly on the outside while MT. Johnson on l the inside looked for a weapon. He found long cane and as the face of the young gallant appeared the angry father 1 struck it with the cane and to the sound of loud 'ouch!" Hebbard dropped into the courtyard.
 MT Johnson didn't know his visitor s 1 identity, so he used the telephone to re- l late his woes to the Harlem detective bureau Hebbard crawled to his feet and scurried up the stairway, through the building and out into the street to his home.
 Mrs. Johnson heard the noise and shouted Burglars" Miss Celia lay asleep in bed in another room and didn' t 1 discover the cause of the disturbance un- 1 til her father summoned an elevator boy | and asked him for a description of the intruder This was given to Detective | Mccullough when he arrived, and he ! went forth in search of Hebbard, who ! was about to drop into bed when the | detective called.
 Hebbard was taken to the detective ] bureau and a few hours later to the | Harlem court before Magistrate Corri- gan. MT. Johnson appeared and made a charge of attempted burglary, which the magistrate altered to unlawful entry.
 In the course of the examination MT.
 
 bard to see his daughter or to core spond with hdr.
 q have warned him for two years to keep away from my home but ne mas persisted in it. and think that my orlgi- nal complaint of attempted burglary should stand Here a man comes along opens my window and then hits me with a valentine a bunch of violets and love letter."
 Hebbard said he is 27 years old and a broker. He said he was in love With Miss Celia. who Is 19 years old and that an arrangement existed He had no in 1 tention. he added, of hitting her father, but that as it was St. Valentines Day, he thought it proper to let her hear from him.
 l When he was asked why he ran away