New Ulm review., 1922-12-27
ADM Il i Is rs HIS ! Gull
BEFORE JUDGE TO
one INDIC I lNENT
Court Throws Out Second
Charge After Hear
ing Case.
DORIS NELSON TELLS
HER STORY ON STAND

Says Cornpicker Proposed
They Run Away To
Get Married.
Frank D. Hardie, Iowa cornpicker,
who was arrested at Mason City, Ia.
with Doris Nelson, 16-year old daugll-;
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Nelson,
living two miles west Of Comfrey,
pleaded guilty to carnal knowledge
before Judge I. M. Olsen in Brown
county district court and was given
an indeterminate sentence Of from one
to seven years in Saltwater peniten-
tiary.
The grand jury on December 13
returned two indictments against
Hardie, one charging carnal knowledge
and the other abduction. Hardie re-
fused to plead guilty to the second in
dictment. A jury was called and at
the conclusion Of the testimony Judge
Olsen ruled that there had not been
sufficient testimony introduced to hold
the defendant on the abduction charge
land upheld the motion Of Albert D.
Flor, counsel for Hardie that this IN
dictment be dismissed.
Doris Nelson Testifes.
IN the course Of the trial on the alb
duction charge Doris Nelson, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Nelson, her father and
mother, Ephraim Nelson, q brother,
and. Miss Nora Schoedl, whose mother
runs a restaurant at Confrey, were
called as witnesses by w. I zEcksteln,
county attorney.
Doris Nelson declared that she Was
T16 years old, having been born at
Aurora, sNeb., and moving to Bashaw
township with her parents eight years
ago. She said she was a junior at the.
Comfrey high school.
Meets Hardie at Dance.
81 first met Hardie at dance at
Dotson in July the girl said. He
was tiling in that locality. ! met Tim
several times at dances. He came to
work on October Ia for my father. he
was picking corn. 81.
4 sAbout two weeks before he LETT ola
December 6 he talked about me golsag
away with him and getting married
He completed his work and my father
paid him of on December 5. Tilat
levening I carried my clothes out u
the hall and he packed them. in one ot
his grips.
Buys Ticket On Train.
He left about 80 a. M, December
I6 with two black suit cases. ! went
to school in the bus at 8 q. N. and 1-s re-.
NAMED in school all day. went
down town at A O clock and took the.
train. / bought a ticket on the tram q. 4
/ for Mason City. That is where HaT-#
die said we were going. Hardie got.
an the train at Butterfeld. He had
gone down to Butterfeld on5the morn
ling freight. We arrived at Mason
City about 8 p. m.
Went to Rooming House.
"Where did you 60 after you arr
i riyed?'' Mr.. Eckstein asked.
1--WE went to rooming house"
4 Doris replied.
Did you see the defendant re-
4 1gister?''
sYes.'''
What did he write?
/. .Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hartmann. 9
q Did you at any time inform your
! father and mother Of your plans to
Il leave?'
N o ~
Parents On Stand.
william Nelson, the father Of Doris
J, declared that he had hired Hardie on
aIOctober IA to pick corn Hardie lef1
!. on December with his two suit
4 leases His daughter went to school
/; las usual Hen She did not return
u from school. he and her mother search
;Iher. room and found her clothes hae
! disa appeared
!, !, ftI got very nervous when Doris die
j mot come home, Mrs. Nelson said
1--WE telephoned to comfrey abou
Iher but We could not secure any infor
"A
) nation. Then we searched her room
III to find that her clothes had disap
= peared.
1 Brother Finds Her.
e Ephraim Nelson, q years old, de
clared he was working on farm il
i Cottonwood county when he receive
Y q teleph call from home that Dori
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