The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-01-25
GIRLS REFUSE TO
Be REFORMED
PitifuI Sacrifice of An
Aged Man
TO SAVE THE HONOR OF GIRLS
Bride of ID Deserts Groom
and Runs Off With
Step Mother.
EVIL TENDENCIES PREVAILED
The Evansville Courier says:

The Evansville courier says:
A story of love undeserving Is
written between two names on the
slate at the police station.
Although the charges do not in
innate as much, Nina Pryor, four
teen-year-old bride of A. G.. Pryor,
aged 60, is guilty Of deserving the
man who three days ago married her
to save his bride and also his daugh-
ter from a life Of degradation.
The other girl slated is the daugh-
ter, Beulah Pryor, aged 16. who
makes light in her cell of her act of
abetting her new step-mother, two
years younger than herself. who has
chosen to tear down the walls which
had been built up by the aged man
at sacrifice.
Last Wednesday W. d. Pryor, a
we'll known citizen of Henderson,
married Nina Lovelace, telling the
County Judge of Henderson that he
was not in love but desperately bent
upon saving his young daughter. 1t
developed that his new-found bride
was a girl who had been Iured TO
Evansville and induced to enter o
resort at 210 Lower First street.
She had been accompanied by the
daughter of w. d. Pryor. Realizing
that he had but a few years in which
to live, and thinking only of the
daughter who had been snatched
from the resort here by the timelj
arrival of the Evansville police, Pry-
or resolved to enter into a marriage
contract in hope that it would clear
the way for an upright life for all
that he cared for in his family.
Yesterday the girl-wife and her
lew step-daughter bolted from the
home of the unfortunate Henderson
groom, and armed with a forged.
note, were given admittance at the
same resort in which they had teen
found last week.
When questioned by the police af-
ter their arrest by Detectives Heuke
and Peck, Mrs. Nina Pryor admitted
she had written a note and signed
the name of her husband, the note
conserving to her desire to board at
21O Lower First street.
At first the girls boldly declared
the note had been written by w. ID.
Pryor. They finally confessed to
having duped the husband and faith
er in their desire to leave the por-
tails of their home for the glamour of
tho underworld. They laughed when
taken to their cells at the police sta
ton, declaring that nothing could
change their desire, and that Il ar
rested fifty times, would not bow to
the will of the crestfallen groom
who thought he was playing his last
card when he took Nina Lovelace as
mis- wife.
Up to a late hour the police had
heard nothing from w. D. Pryor. He
was notified soon after the arrest.
7 he bride protested when sne learn
ed that the police endeavored TO
communicate with her husband. She
declared that she preferred lnything
to returning to her husband. sac
said she was happy for a day or two
after their marriage but CT late ha1
longed to return TO Evansville.
The marriage license was issued
at Henderson, only after the dis
tracted father, hoping that by bring
ing the Lovelace girl into the fami-
ly circle he could hold his own
daughter, had secured the consent
of the judge of the court in Hender-
son county.
1t was stated at the police sta
ton yesterday that the girl prisoners
would probably be turned over to
the juvenile authorities, unless the
aged groom comes from Henderson
to intervene in behalf of those near
est him.