The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-19
MAN AND BRIDE
Of IS ARRESTED
HUSBAND WANTED IN BALTIMORE
FOR SWEARING FALSELY IN
SECURING LICENSE.
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GIRL EXCITES PITY
TELLS STORY OF UNHAPPY HOME
AND BEATING At THE
HANDS OF HER HIS
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Lydia NJ Reed, pretty. but frail
young girl thirteen years old, Of 4lo
Park street. Baltimore. Md. and the
bride of George c. Shelter, of the
anne city, whom she had known but
eleven days before they were mar
ried in Baltimore on July 80, after
Shelter had sworn falsely to the fact
that the girl was eighteen years old,
were both arrested on Broad street
last night about II o'clock and held
for the Baltimore police. who hold
warrants for their arrest, sworn out
by the girls mother.
The couple were married about II
O'Clock and at once left for Richmond,
where they thought they would be
safe from detection. AT first they
secured boarding place In house
on Clay street. but later moved to
Dickinson hotel, on Broad street,
whore they had lived for about ten
DAYS when they Were arrested.
without attracting any attention.
Detective Sergeauts Krengei and At
ltinson picked up the couple between
Eighth and Ninth streets and walked
with them to police headquarters.
There the child wife told the most
heart-rendering tale of how her hus
band on Monday night beat her be
cause he thought she had attended a
moving picture snow WIN hhotuef
man.
Crying when told that she would
have TO spend the night in the police
station, the young girl, with tears
streaming down her face. awaited for
the patrol wagon at headquarters.
Exciting the sympathy of the detec-
tives as no prisoner has ever done, the
desk sergeant was asked over the teie
phone by one of the detectives to take
good care of her, sergeant and place
her In the hands of the motherly ma
tron. The child wife told the police
that she was raised TO lead the life
of a bad woman. She had not been
taught the things and had not re-
ceivAd the motherly care and advice
which keeps young girls from leading
the wrong kind OF life. My mother
runs a boarding house where every
thing wrong is done and even en-
eouraged," she told with tears In her
eyes.
Shelter told the police that he had
found the young girl in this position
and had asked her to become his
wife, thus attempting to give some
excuse for marrying a girl which in
reality was only a child
The marriage took place in st.
Johns German Lutheran church In
y
Ter swore that the girl was eighteen
years old.
The ehild-wIfe told the police that
her father was dead and her mother
had married the second time and was
now suing for divorce from the
second husband, She said that she
had one elder sister who led the same
life that her mother did and the
same life that she was taught to lead.
The young girl, shaking with fright
and grief. said that her mother had
her arrested here for Interior motives.
She was wanted back on account OF
financial gain for her mother. the CIR,
said
AS she told the story. the little
crowd Of detectives and newspaper
reporters all tried TO comfort her and
told that life was really not so bad
as she pictured il, nor need she give
up hope. Everything was done to
encourage the little heart which was
bleeding and suffering with shame
and disgrace Later, when the
patrol wagon arrived. the little girl
Strengthened up and. with a bright
smile, turned and said Il am ready