The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-10-12
Girl Was Deserted By Young
Man She Trusted
TEAR STARTING PICTURE
This SorrowfuIlTaIe Should Be
Related to Accompaniment
Of Slow Music
From Saturdays Daily.

from saturdays Daily.
Fine setting for a movie picture. A
tale told to the accompaniment of
slow music. The trusting maiden
and the deserving lover. Hiss tn evil
lian!
That the young man with whom
she had travelled from Goodhue coun-
ty to Mankato and was to marry in
this city had disappeared was the
report given at the police station
this morning by young woman who
said her name was Mary Hoist. She
said that she and William Schulen-
berg came to Mankato yesterday
afternoon and had agreed to be mar
ried here today, but she had not seen
him since eight o'clock last evening.
She said Schulenberg was twenty
two years old and she was twen+--
four. He had told her that = lad
secured position in Mankato and
would go to work today
Came From Goodhue County.
The young woman said she was the
daughter of John Hollis, a well-to do
farmer of Belvidere, Goodhue county.
She and her brother rented the farm
of eighty acres from their father, the
arrangement being that they were
to do the work and have the crops,
but the father was to have the live
stock. This arrangement was car
ried on for about year, when there
was trouble between the father and
his tenants over the division of what
the farm produced.
Girl Was in Love.
While all of this was taking place,
the girl was in love with a young
man with whom she became acquaint-
ed about nine months ago. He
worked on the farm of a neighbor,
Art Weitzel, and also on her fathers
farm. This was William Schulen-
berg, son of Henry Schulenberg, who
once ran a saloon in Red Wing, but
failed. Later, she says, the Schulen-
berg family lived in Mankato about
year, but last fall moved back to
Goodhue county, making their home
not far from Red Wing.
The girl said that she and young
Schulenberg last Thursday evening
departed from her fathers home for
Red Wing. She understood that her
father was going to dispose of the
farm. At all events things were
not harmonious there and she set out
with young Schulenberg with the
idea of having a new home.
Marriage Was Postponed.
She said the two went to Red Wing
together, and there they spent one
night at the st. James hotel as man
and wife. They had planne don be-
ing married at Red Wing Friday
morning, but as that was not con-
venient for catching the desired train,
the marriage was postponed to Satur-
day.
They came to Mankato and went
to restaurant in the afternoon, she
said, and later took hotel room. She
said he set about looking for job
He met two men, whom he appeared
to know.
Thought He Mas yexed.
In the evening he suggested that
the two should go out to supper and
she said she did not care for any.
He also suggested that they. SHOULD
go to a show, and she did not care
about that. With that he left her
in the hotel room, and she thought
he was vexed. That was about eight
o'clock last evening and she had not
seen him since.
She said some of his clothing was
in the hotel room and the rest in a
local laundry, where he had also left
his suitcase.
The girl had evidently been crying
as her eyes were red She remark
ed, however, that she did MOI care
so much now, that he was gone, but
she hated to go back home alone.
She said she had plenty of money for
her own care, being better off in that
way than he. She lad paid part Of
the expense of the trip.