Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
SOLD HAIR
0 PURCHASE FOOD
Constance Minnick, Missing
Girl, Sacrificed Locks to
Get Money
WEEDS A PHILADELPHIA

Constance Crowell Minich. sixteen.
year old daughter Of a wealthy New
York man. whose disappearance
caused a nation wide search. was forced
to sell her chestnut hair for S. in At.
lantic City that she might have food.
according to Detective Brown. of this
city.
The girl is the bride of n Philadel.
phian. " She was married OF Saturday
to Joseph La Grossa. twenty five. Of
DOT Christian street, a member of the
real estate firm of Langsner & La
Grossa. sol Liberty Building, Broad
and Chestnut streets.
Il. f. Minich. vice president of the
Sand Mixing Company of New York.
father Of the girl. had offered a reward
of $500 in his efforts to find the girl.
During her absence from home, accord
ing to Detective Brown, she was re.
duced to straits in Atlantic City.
Following her disappearance from her
home in Westminster county, New York,
according to Brown, the girl admitted
to him that she had made her way to
Atlantic City and there had run out Of
funds. LA Grossa also told me, y said
Brown. that he found her wandering
the boardwalk, hungry and pennilcss.
He said he found n room for her at n
hotel and left her there. Later he met
her in Philadelphia and married her.
1.-THE girl confessed to me that she
had been forced to have her hair bobbed.
She sold her beautiful chestnut locks to
Il hairdresser for So witt which to buy
food. She told me she had left home
because her parents had been too
strict"
The marriage license was obtained
Saturday. otter the Marriage License
Bureau in City Hall had closed. from
the clerk of the bureau. at his home.
The marriage ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Alvin l.. Cooper, 1892
North Sixth street. at the house ia
South Twspty- second street. where the
bride has lived since she motored to
this city with La Grossa from Atlantic
City.
. Although but sixteen years old. the
Irl gave the date of her birth as
March &, 1898. at the time she and
her intended husband applied for the
marriage license.
Father Here Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. La Grossa now live
at the house where the took
place. Today the youthful bride. wear
ing a vivid green tam o'shanter and a
gown of dark blue serge covered with
a dark blue cape lined with n figured
| gray silk, accompanied her husband to
his real estate office. There they were
found by newspaper reporters and pho.
tographers and willingly consented to
pose for their photographs.
Papa was over here SATURDAY
night" said the bride. land ! am going
home for a visit Wednesday. joe" she
added. looking at her husband. and
blushing with pride. will come ovel
for the week end.
Papa came over on the s O'Clock
train and left on the 1898 Saturday
night"
Yes" broke in Mr.. La Grossa,
''and my wife talked with her mother
over the telephone from Broad street
station"
III JOt, lntEt > hO USE ttlilnS tnut,
pouted the bride.
1--WE are very happy and wish the
newspapers would let us alone now"
the bride continued, in answer to ques
tions.
Acquainted Three Years
Joe came to Atlantic City for me
and we motored up to Philadelphia.
How long have ! known Joe?
ooh. / don't know. How long have
I known you, Joe2
"Three years? Oh; it's been longer
than that"
Over the telephone today the adj
mission was made by the secretary OF
the girls stepfather that Mr.. Minich
had visited Philadelphia last Saturday
night and seen his newly married daugh
ter. All other information was refused.