The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
NAMED
in GIRLS STORY
Pretty Marie Kruhan, Ke-I
nosha Immigrant Girl,
Tells Story.
ATTACKED ON BOAT
Claims She Was Attacked by
Surgeon and that Emil Lemke
Broke TrOth for that Reasons

Pretty Marie Karuhn, %, picture
bride" who came to Kenosha last Au-
gust to marry Emil Lemke, then liv-
ing at $50 Sellick avenue, lies in the
Salvation Army Maternity Hospital in
Milwaukee today in most delicate
condition. According to her story, her
dream of home has vanished and she
a victim of an assistant surgeon on
the boat to which She came to Amer
lea has been deserted by her onetime
sweetheart here and left to face the
world alone.
Her problem is all the more per-
picking because she is expecting soon
to become a mother and will have to
find way to care not only for her.
self but also for her child. Her story
has aroused the sympathy of new
friends in Kenosha and in Milwaukee
who have aided her in the past and
who are helping now but who admit
that she is facing a real battle for
a lone girl to undertake in a country
entirely new to her.
Left as Picture Bride.
Her story starts back in the village
of Saalenside, in East Prussia, where
she and Lemke were sweethearts. He
heard the call to America as the land
of opportunity and left promising to
send for her as soon as he mads
enough money to establish AsHe
Ea~~,
he kept his promise. Last spring
he wrote TO her and secured her con-
sent to cone TO kenosha and become
IL bride. He signed the affidavits
ne ssary TO make han her husband By
affidavit, and she sailed for America,
Meanwhile Lemke made preparations
for the wedding which was to take
place shortly after she arrived In Kes
noshs.
Tells Him of Attack. (
Several weeks later Marie reached
Kenosha but meanwhile, according to
her story, she had been the victim
of an attack made on her on the boat
by an assistant surgeon. She ex-
planned that she was so frightened
that she, dared not report to the
officials of the boat the man, whose
name she never knew, and by the time
she had reached Kenosha all chances
of experimenting him had passed
Lemke heard her secret, as she now
says, and for weeks hesitated to make \
his final decision. They went to the
Reverend Carl Buenger, pastor of the
Friedens Evangelical Lutheran church
here and told him Of their dilemma.
He did all within his power to bring
them to an understanding but this
seemed impossible.
Finally one day only few months
ago. Marie found that Lemke, believ-
ing her entire story but unable to
carry out his promise of marriage be-
cause of it, had left Kenosha and como
back to Germany.
The immigrant girl faced the situa-
ton bravely. Alone except for newly
made friends who had taken an inter-
est in her, she went to work here and
has saved enough money to help pay
her hospital bill in Milwaukee. The
case came under the surveillance Of
Mrs. Beulah Mcneil, Kenosha police
woman, who with representatives Of
other agencies sin Kenosha arranged
for the young woman to go to the
Salvation Army Hospital in Milwaukee,
where she is now patient.
Efforts have been made to appre-
bend the assistant surgeon on the boat
who is named by the girl as being re-
sponsible for her condition but all
Of these have been unavailing. The
maritime laws set penalty of death
for the crime charged.
Meanwhile the girl is bravely fight
ing her battle. She plans to come back
to Kenosha to live despite the fact
that the home-dream which lured her
to America has vanished.