The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-23
If body kiss a body
On a great highway,
Need a body pinch a body
And make him bail to pay?

Chicago, April 20.-Irving L. Stayart
twenty years old, and son of Loui.
w. Stayart, president of the formel
wholesale grocery firm of Louis W
Stayart company, kissed his iance,
early this morning and almost before
he knew it was in position to pom
der on the foregoing problem.
He didn't kiss her comm through
the rye" but made his mistake il
striving to show his affection for hi.
future wife, Miss Clara Sagenwar, il
front of the Union restaurant, right
near the busy corner of Clark ant
Randolph streets.
Another hitch in the romance wa:
the time of action. 1t was at l:3(
o'clock this morning. And further
more, there were near by two "lad
dies" from the central station who
didn't see fit to smile on the lassie al
all, but HE'D the whole party to the
patrol box.
Rude Introduction to Chicago.
The action of the rude policemen
was all the more cruel in that it NAV
give Miss Saganwar false impression
of Chicago. She had Just arrived in
the city yesterday to meet chr fiancee
it is said, and the experience on Clark
and Randolph was about the first that
the great city offered her.
James A. Clark, salesman of Min.
neapolis and brother in law of STAY.
art, protested when the detectives
seized the young man, and he, too
was arrested.
Miss Sagenwar and Mrs. Clark were
allowed to depart when the party
reached the station after the arrests
Louis w. Stayart, father of the young
man, then was communicated with
over the telephone, and hurried to the
station to sign bonds Of $500 each for
his son and Clark.
Double Wedding to Be.
Incidentally it was revealed that
Stayart and Miss Sagenwar and At
torney Carlton R. Balzer, l3l LaSalle
street, who represneted the defendants
In court today, and Miss Eva Belle
Page, 42ll Lake avenue, are to be
principals in double wedding il
Crown Point, Ind, this afternoon.
"Your honor" testified Detective
Frank, when he appeared with the
prisoner before Judge Hume in the
Harrison street court, 81 saw Stayari
with his arms about a girl, Kissing
and caressing her in front of the res
taurant, at $50 O'Clock this morn.
ing. 1 walked up and asked him tc
desist and move on, but he said, No
I'll be hanged if I Will and / took
him to a patrol box | told him
would release him if he would &c
away with the girl, but he said, Never
mind, lock me up
Smaclsed While Awaiting Car.
eve Were waiting for street car
said Stayart while standing on the
sidewalk 1 kissed my fancee. A mo
ment later the detectives seized me
and pushed me about six feet back
ward. 1t did not take minute. ]
just kissed her once
Had you been drinking?'
81 had about live glasses of beer
Clark gave an account of the ex
perience similar to that related by
Stayart, and the charges against boil
of them were dismissed
Mrs. Louis w. Stayart, the young
mans mother, never has met her flu
ture daughter law
oh, / can't say word about it.
she said this morning. 'rMy son left
the house this morning, saying that he
was going out OF the city, and tolc
me to say nothing of it.
What Mother Said.
II never had the pleasure of meet
ing my future daughter law. She
arrived in Chicago only yesterday, ant
my son has his own ideas, like al
young men, about our meeting her
He dislikes publicity and does moi
want us to make fuss over her.
Miss Sagenwar is from the east
Ny son met her down there and ha.
been engaged to her for some time
Attorney Balzer has known tn,
Stayart family for some time.
"Stayaft and Miss Sagenwar an6
Miss Page and l are going to be mar
RED in double wedding in Crown
Point, Ind, this afternoon" said thu
lawyer eve had made arrangements
for the ceremonies and Mr.. Stayart's
misfortune will not upset our plans.