The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-01-21
Manager of Loan Company
In Court AS Witness
When Surprise Came
DE LANEY ACTED PROMPTLY:
ACCUSED WAIVED HEARING
Girl, Who Is Is, and An Or
phan, Committed to Con-
necticut School for Girls
Sergeant Hall Obtained
Confession.

Charged with committing an inde-
cent assault upon Is years old Pau
lima Seman, the runaway girl who
was found here yesterday, Robert
Quaid, aged SO, manager Of local
loan company, was held in bail OF
$500 for trial in the Superior court
when arraigned before Judge Wilder
Of the city court today. Quaid's
counsel, Attorney Charles III. Shapiro,
entered a formal demurrer, by which
the case goes at once to the court of
final jurisdiction without the formal
ity of taking testimony in the city
courts preliminary hearing.
Quaid'S arrest came like a bolt
from a clear sky to all but g. few of
the police officials and himself. His
name had not been publicly brought
into the case of the missing Seman
girl until the child was placed on
trial in the city court charged with
being an incorrigible, liable to fall in
to habits Of vice.
Last Saturday the girl was given
SIS by her siSter-in-law, Mrs. Ed
ward Seman of 562 Carroll avenue.
She was to pay the rent, and also to
pay interest on a loan at the loan
company, the latter charge amount
ing to $2.45. She went to the house
of the woman to whom rent was paid.
proffered $40 and that was refused.
Then she went to the loan Office. !.
The girls confession to the detec-
tives, repeated by Sergeant Peter Hall
on the witness stand in the city court
today ran about as follows. When she
went into the loan office Quaid was
singing. They struck up a CONVEX
sation over his singing, and the man
to spend the evening with him. To-
gether they went to local hotel
where they drank Scotch highballs
and then spent the night there. On
the strength of what happened in the
hotel the charge against Quaid was
formulated.
The next day she met young man
giving the name Of Fay who got SO
away from her, promising to meet
her at Wall and Main streets later,
and pay her back. She went to the
meeting asa Place and amo5her o1e not y1u5a tn
there, that his right name was Jim
my Smith and that he had gone to
East Waterbury
She returned to the hotel again,
spent Sunday night there, and Mon
day went to New York city, thence
place she wrote Walter Summers, a
troIleyman of Gilbert court, asking
for So with which to return home.
Returning here yesterday she went to
a mouse at 80 SeVere street WnSfe
she was found by Detective Hall.
''It's all true" confessed the girl
when she was asked what she had
to say. Further than that she had
no statement to make. Quaid, sit
ting among the spectators he
had been summoned as a witness
paled visibly as the story was re-
peated. Prosecutor Delaney queS-
toned the girl briefly for a moment,
then drew a warrant charging Quaid
with the offence outlined.
Quaid did not enter a plea. Coun-
sci demurred, and Judge Wilder at
once found probable cause. II have
no sympathy" said Judge Wilder,
ssfor men charged with an offehce
such as this On the recommen enda-
ton of Prosecutor Delaney he fixed
bail for Quaid's appearance in the
upper court at $500. Quaid and his
lawyer began telephoning from po-
lice headquarters for bondsman but
their efforts did not bring fruit up to
a late hour.
Pauline is an orphan. Her 18th
birthday occurred in December. She
has been living with her brother, who
says she has been wayward for about
a year.
QUAD lived at 376 Gregory street.
He is So years old, unmarried.
The Seman girl was sentenced to
the Connecticut School for Girls for
the remainder Of her minority.