The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-11-24
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VACATION / TO .
JAMESTOWN
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Returned Yesterday Only to Slip
!, Into Warrant Charging Mar
quette With kidnapping
ATMOSPHERE OF DRAMATIC
IMPULSES PERvADEs OFFICE
Girl Tells Story to. States Attor.
ney- Mother and Daughter
Embrace Each Other

An atmosphere Of dfaniatic i'm
pulses gripped the Office, Of States At.
torney Berndt this morning, when
Miss Annie Balzer, l5-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr., and Mrs. Michael Balzer
of this city, who eloped f&ith Albert
E. Marquette, married, lsst Saturday
evening, ran to the arms 6f her moth.
er as Sheriff French led her into the
office, and unfolded a story heavily
precipitated with tears of her va
cation" spent in JamestoWp.
Returned to City Yesterday.
Albert f. Marquette. son OF A. F..
Marquette, proprietor Of the Bismarck
Steam laundry, who made eyes at
the pretty little mangling girl in
fathers place Of business which gave
impetus to the elopement, returned to
Bismarck yesterday afternoon with
the girl on advice from the boys
mother The mother and son had
communicated with each other last
Wednesday from jamestown, hut this
information was not conveyed to the
sheriff's department.
Slips Into the Warrant.
With his return, Marquatte slipped
into warrant charging hin with kid
mapping. He was arrested at his home
with the girl late yesterday afternoon.
Both were taken to the county jail.
Marquette will be arraig1ed before
Judge Dolan some time today to an.
swer the charge The gffl was taken
before States Attorney Berndt shortly
before 10 O'clock this morning. In
the Office were the mother. the father
and another !, relative. Mother and
daughter ,hugged each other for fully
4iEa>minutes; .whcnitl,e senatation was
ordered that the girl could tell her
story to the attorney.
Asked Her to Take Vacation.
S "He just asked me to take a vaca
tion to jamestown and not to tell mo-
thcr,' was the prciacing statement
to the girls story "Ycs, We had
planned it for week and another hoy
and girl were to go with us. j knew
he was married and had wife and
two children, but he always told me
he didn't live with her and that he
was going to get a divorce"
The young girl, who told the states
attorney that she would be 16 years
old on February 4, 1917, said she left
here with Marquette on No. Of Sat-
urday evening, that they arrived in
Jamestown about 10:45 o'clock that
evening, went to dairy lunch and
then to a hotel ION the left side of
the street going north" She regis
tered as Annie Balzer and he as Al
bert Marqu ette, according to her sto'
ry, she being given room No. 4. She
said she paid IS cents for the room
each day and that they purchased
their tickets on the train in going to
jamestown.
Questioned About Ring.
States Attorney Berndt questioned
the young girl concerning a wrist
watch and ring. She declared that
she found the ring" but when told
to tell the, truth, admitted that he
had given it to her about two or three
weeks ago, and the bracelet watch,
last Saturday before leaving for
Jamestown.
Questioned sternly and closely on
her actions in jamestown since last
Saturday night, the girl was emphatic
that there was no intimacy between
the two She said he was going to
take work on the sewer there and
that she had been promised Job to
begin w5rk today. but both decided
to return ITO Bismarck after Mar
quote had talked with his mother over
the telephone last Wednesday,.
Didn't Know Warrant Was Out.
'Did you know that warrant was
out for the arrest of Marquette?" ask
ed the states attorney, to which the
girl answered in the negative. stating
that they had inquired for Bismarck
paper, but could not get one.
Il didn't want to go home. wanted
to stay and go to work." said the girl,
land I didn't know we were wanted
until told so at Marquette's nome"
She told the attorney that she "was
afraid" to 60 to her home after ar
irving in Bismarck and that Mar
1uette had telephoned to some place
(the name Of which she did not re.
member. in the hope of getting her
board and room.
A Little Personal Advice.
Suppose" said the attorney, "he
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