Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-03-27
WOULD. AIlINNUl
GIRLS MARRIAGE
Case Of Abduction in kidder
County wasLost by Brides
Parents .
Special to The Tribune.

STEELE, N. D., March N.-The alb
duction case OF Hans Hermann Junge
and wife against Guy Boggess, all o1
near Wilson, Kjdder county, which
CAME before the public Sast week i'm
an account i'm a local paper of a trial
for alleged perjury, has appeared in
a few form. The district court lis now
appealed to- ito annul the marriage, on
the ground that hit was contaminated
by fraud, following abduction. The
glrl in THE case was ~ on February
IA, last, and the husband ds a wild
over of 20, with two small children.
These facts did mot appear at the
TRIAL. The facts as to the obtaining
of !icense only being the points at
iss,DS.
Briefly, the perjury case shows in
evidence THAT Guy Borgess. swore the
girl was 19, and his and her testi-
mOny denied the truth of the parents
testimony that they had told him i'm
her presence at their home that SHE
was but II. This statement, they
swore, was made March 3, ONE Sun
day, when Boggess was there. They
had forbidden her ito receive hds COM
pany, and objected to hds coming ITO
THE house. "A few days later a young
MAN neighbor came to ask the COM
pany of the girl ito a dance at a neigh
boris, and she was allowed Ito go with
him, with the understanding THAT she
was not to come home with Boggess.
Next morning thte htter's brother no
tified the parents that their daughter
and BoggreSs were married the might
before, or were away for that purpose.
A few days latter Borgess. was ar
rested on the charge of abduction, but
THE court proceedings we're for per-
jury. This was not successful, Jus
tfce Doe discharghng the prisoner. The
contention OF defendants counsel, J.
w. Walker was that the affidavit
taken to procure a mamdage license
was detective, and swearing to one
filled out and signed by applicant Is
not perjury, even df the statements
are false. Boggess swore that the
girl WAS 10, and THAT he had not
asked any one else her age, and THAT
ON her information he had made the
statement to THE county Judge. The
girl upheld bis STORY and admitted
that she had stated her age falsely
The parents latter brought suit to
annna as States Attorney Staley adj
vised Them they could thus get pos
session of their daughter.
Tine girl -ts satd 10 be, by some, tt
be less alert mentally than MOST girls
OF her age, and is evidently a simple
country maiden.
The parents are quiet, earnest peIo-
pie, the father ts fifty years of age
Both speak English very well, but
when the discharge was announced
they evidently did not comprehend the
fact They were surprised a few min
utes latter when told the girl would
be able to accompany her husband
and the mother, cried and said their
girl had been tsoNen and now their
trouble was for nothing.
Public sentiment lie generally ex.
pressed THAT II this lis THE state od
the law regarding the issuance of II.
censes and the appeal to the counts
ds to result In such cases as this has.
there Is no protection to the home
against am kinds OF slbtefuge in sc.
curing minor girls against the wish
OF paents. In this case there was
no dance, and the r,lee adopted was
deliberately ito get tire girl from the
parents roof.
Some think the abduction charge
should have been used, others that
as the imam is crippled having lost a
part of one leg, that no severe meas-
,Mes should be taken The parents
said that they would have objected TO
him az a sutton because they doubted
his abdldty ito take care OF a wife and
family. :;