St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 30, 1899

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that no harm befeil her. after noon Friday when the chindren out on their mission. Nothing detieite been heard from them, though thes» have been appealed to and Mrs. We searched for them almost 1st “It it w@re rot.for wha a few weeks ago,” sal reporter Tuesday { they had beenenrutdered i k Jesse at least w not | & home if he could biy return, -_ quiet and brave little fellow a stayed away from home a night in &is before. Liilie has been inclined te of late and that’s what made me along with her. To save her from ._ as much as anything elise. + Sar ta “Lam afraid thata woman who sells Row. ers on Broadway has pao a Allie i and has her for no good purpose, Lilile Ls alweys a good gir untli a tew mon when she got to running with this girl. LAille got so bad that we had to put in restraint for awhile and a few ago she tuld me that the woman was to persuade her to leave St. Louis away with her. “When my children did not returf# once thought of what Lillle had jee ob oa about the flower woman. I hunt Ba? up and asked her about Lillie. She told mae 7 that she saw Lilie and Jesse las inday = morning on Pine street near na street. | went into thet neighborhood aml | inquired at every house, but nobody hag” seen a boy and girl together answering | description of my chbhlidren. ea “When I was at the flower womans 1 ~ noticed that her house was all torn Bp | Her carpets were wrapped and tied * tes with heavy twine. I asked her if she Wate > going to move and she said she was OnIy : | cleaning house. I believe, though, that 6he@ > has made arrangements to move out of the ~ city and has*sent Lillie on ahead. what has become of Jesse I cannot” ceive. Unless he has been murdered is locked up some place | know he come home to us."’ The flower woman referred to is @ iar down town figure. For long has offered flowers for sale on the She is a large, raw-boned woman, ft i) years old, with plercing black eyes hair that is just beginning to turn gray." 4 When a reporter questioned her about ~ Lillie Wells, she oak ‘tog “I saw Lillle and her little brother on Pine street Sunday morning when I — ia} going for my flowers. It was about § ~ > : ~~ ™ , e * S La ‘. t= zy 4. Sd Pe Fa he ’ we bd SR worst 4 § 4 wot 5 % i rj *? ; we o'clock. The girl was sitting on the steps of a house on the north side of street. I cannot remember the street ber. The boy was standing down on pavement. I did not speak to either of children. “Lillie Wella was at my house only That was two or three months ago. is a bad girl, and do not want her about My girl Annie is a good girl, and I do ge want her to 0 with the Wells’ girl. “* ae ee Word of Mrs. Wells’ suspicions was ni. veyed to the flower woman, and she at once became excited and an . ae “Not for $100 would I have that girl in ay rs house,’ she said. “Il have enough to @o AS ce ps tinge Vis support my own fam ly without ta a others. My girl is working, and has & = for three weeks. ; 3 “I guess this is a free country, isn’t. If 1 want to pack up my things I ean do it, cant I? | dont owe an anything and I can leave whenever I to. and it ain't anybody's business. have that woman arrested if she says 1 took her girl.” Police Capta'n Keeble, of the Ca Dy'atrict, says that the case is full of <= tery. He cannot aceount for the ‘4 : The girl, he sald, was @ Bt tle wild. but the boy was an unuUsUAiD ; little fellow. The police and the ne speak weil of Mra. Wells. om FLOOD OF MARRIAGE OFFERS” Letters by the Hundred Upon Miss Roberts, Because, of a Newspaper Announcement. ,) Special to the Post-Dispatch, en. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., May %.—Mise) A. Roberts of Rush, Pa., ts recetving a6 20 proposals of marriage a day in every effort to discontinue them. a matrimonial journal in Milwaukee, editor obtained’ Miss Roberts’ : announced she was a wealthy uneperr lady with $20,000 in ber own name and me in prospect, and that she desired @ © partner. ce The fret intimation Misa R-e-*-"""S the matter Wea when Mar came pouring in through was be ed with peti graph a some of the der in the extreme.