New Britain herald., 1927-02-18
''Pl Stick By Harry" "
 Declares Lillian Olga Wenzlof On Return
 Today From Capital.
East Street Young Woman Didn't Know Award Had Wife, She Says, Telling of Their Honey m0on."

q still trust Harry and I'll stick by him. I've as much as accepted him for better or for worse and US my duty to stick. A girl who accepts man on those conditions and then who leaves him flat as soon as the worse comes along IS yellow!" So said Miss Lillian Olga Wenzloff, 25, Of 1412 East street, today, when she returned from Washington, D. C., where Harry E. Award. to whom she was engaged to be married, is being held under bonds of s1,5oo on charges of violation of the Mann act. Award is married and has three children.
 Miss Wenzloff arrived in New Britain this morning at o'clock, greatly fatigued from her trip from the Capital. She was firm in her statements that she still believes in and trusts Award who is awaiting trial for the alleged offense.
 Miss Wenzloff stated today that she met Award on New Years Eve last. The meeting was not planned, since she had an engagement with a girl friend for the evening. She met Walter Martin of Newington, young man with whom she had worked for about two years at local automobile concern, and he asked her to go out with him for the evening. She told him that she had an appointment with girl friend and that she was going to keep it. Whereupon, Martin agreed to get young man for the girl friend so that they might go some where and dance.
 Love at First Sight
 Y ras Scins time later that eve ming that she first met Award. She said today that they seemed to be- come attracted to each other and that after the first meeing he be- came a steady caller at her home. She resides with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Adolph Wenzloff.
 Soon afterward, they became en- gagged and started to make plans for their wedding, going so far as to pulCudiSc lul HUI III 4hiudlSIoWI II and to secure a bungalow in Wind sor for their future home. They plan ned to be married on January 20 in New York city and it was their idea to take with them to the Little Church Around the Corner, two girl friends and Martin, who were to have acted as witnesses.
 \ short time before the date of the wedding, Miss Wenzloff said that she received word from Award that he had been injured in an automo- bile accident and that the ceremony would have to be postponed for two days. Later they changed their plans again and decided to elope. They left this city on January 22, Martin driving them to New York. Again, for reasons of his own, Award asked that the ceremony be postponed. '1' agreed to that, thinking that he'd take care of the matter" said Miss Wenzloff, adding that the wedding did not take place as yet.
 Martin With Them On Trip
 Martin continued to act as driver of the car and the party went to Philadelphia and finally to Tender son, N. C., where Martin expressed a desire to return to this city, she said. They stayed at Henderson but a few hours, according to her story They went to Washington, D. C., where they remained for some time and where Award secured an apart ment, in which they lived. Miss Wenzloff admitted that Award gave their names as MT. and Mrs Harry F. Award" and she expressed the opinion that there was nothing wrong with that. since she believed that they were to be married soon.
 Award was apprehended by Washington detectives on a charge of a Mann act violation and Miss Wenzloff was held as states wit ness. They were taken before United States Commissioner Needham c. Turnage for questioning, after which Award was released in bonds and Miss Wenzloff was allowed to return home. She will be called to Washington to testify when the case comes up for trial.
 She denied today that she had re- fused to tell the story willingly, to newspapermen. She said she answer ed all questions briefly and in business-like manner, but that she failed to understand why she should have to testify against AL ward. She said If she had preferred the charges it would have been different matter, but that she had not brought charges against him. T should hate to think that anything 1 might say would be the cause of his going to prison for a long term,' she said.
 No Reason for Distrust
 Miss Wenzloff said that she has found no reason to distrust the man and that she will stick by him. This morning she read to representative of the Herald, a portion of a note sent to her by Award. through his attorney. It read as follows, T will be with you some time and l will make you happy if it's the last thing l ever do."
 Thought Award Divorced
 She stated that she did not know