The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-19
Marie Karuhn Will Prob
ably be Deported Says
Commissioner.
UP TO WASHINGTON
Friends of Girl Will Garry APP
pear to Washington in Effort
to Prevent Deportation.

Marie Karuhn, aged %, the Kenosha
picture bride" who claims that she
was deserted by Emil Lemke, formerly
of Kenosha, upon whose affidavit to
marry her she was brought to Ameri-
ca, will probably be sent back to Ger
many. This doomed up as the prob
able outcome of her case Monday
afternoon at the close of a hearing
held before immigration Commissioner
Howard Eby in Chicago.
Mrs. Marshall Nidey, superintendent
of the Kenosha Service league, and
Mrs. Beulah Mcneil, Kenosha police
woman, both of whom have done much
to aid the unfortunate immigrant girl,
appeared at the hearing and tried to
dissuade the commissioner from his
determination to order that the
picture bride" be deported.
1t was agreed that no order would
be handed down until after Marie has
been released from the Cook County
hospital in Chicago, where she is ex-
pecting soon to become mother.
The commissioner, however, held out
little hope tht the deportation order
would not be issued at later date.
Laws Law, He Says.
LAWS law" the commissioner is
reported to have said, "and it is clearly
within the intent of the immigration
laws that this girl be sent back to
the country from which she came"
Thee Kenosha social workers pleaded
that an exception might be made in
this case because of the peculiar cir
cumstances and the willingness shown
by the girl to support hereslf and her
child, if need be, and pointed out that
she had provided the funds to care
for her thus far. The commissioner,
however, declared that he had no
license to allow sentiment to influence
his decision and that he saw no way
that deportation could be prevented.
An appeal will be taken to the i'm
migration department at Washington
in final effort to prevent deportation
of the picture BRIDE"
Finds a Similar Case.
Another case very similar to that of
Marie Karuhn, has been found in, Ke-
nosha, an immigrant girl who arrived
here only few weeks ago bringing
story of how she also had been lured
to the cabin of an assistant surgeon on
the ship and locked there, as was
claimed by the picture bride" now in
Chicago facing deportation. This new
case, the names in which were not
made public, is being investigated; it
was stated that the girl here fought
off her assailant and finally gained the
right to return to her previous quart
ers in the lower deck of the boat.
The girl now facing deportation was
en- route to Kenosha where she was to
become the bride of Emil Lemke here.
She claims that she was lured into
the cabin of one of the surgeons on
of this, it is said, Lemke could not
reconcile himself to the marriage and
finally left Kenosha.
Will Continue the Fight.
1t was then that the police depart
ment heard of the case and Mrs. Beu-
lah Mcneil made an investigation.
The Service league Joined with the
police officials in an effort to straight
en- out the tangle and the girl was
sent to hospitals in Milwaukee. The
immigration officials learned of the
case and started the investigation.
Chief of Police Thad Logan in be-
half of the department and in the be-
lief that the picture bride has earned
the right to remain in America under
certain guarantees, has taken up the
case with other officials in Milwaukee
and these will be asked to. present
their view of the case before final
action is taken.