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WIFE QUITS STITT.Kidnaped she Returns to Parents and Will AmIc Divorce.rJIWinfield, Kan.. May 29.— I-ater developments tn tho Stitt-Milligan kidnaping case present one of the most remarkable sensation.? conceivable. When the kidnapers left Winfield Friday night, they drove to Wellington where Stltr engaged a roam at .1 boarding house and remained with his wife all night. Saiurdav morning the two friends came back to Winfield in the automobile and reported that Mrs. Stitt had gone away with her husband willingly, and that they were happy and contented at Wellington. ,Saturday evening Mr*. Stitt came home. She says she married Stitt through fear and that ahe wns kidnaped and carried av.ay against her will. She Is now p.t her father’s home in this city and declares that she has a perfect horror of her husband and is determined never to live with him. She has secured the services of a lawyer and will commence a suit to annul the marriage.Mr. Stitt came back to Winfield this morning. He positively denies that he used any thtvate to compel Miss j t Milligan to marry him. That she went I with him to get the license and waited alone on the probate judge's parch while he went in the house and got it: that she accompanied him to the parsonage and went through the marriage ceremony willingly and on being congratulated by the parson, remarked that she was too happy to be nervous: that he used no force in kidnaping and taking her to Wellington; that she asked him to come and get her and went with him of her own free will; that she remained with him over night at Wellington and went out with him rex* morning In a. happy and contented frame of mind.Wife ITtsngt* Pica.I^ter In the day he saw a dispatch In a Wellington newspaper regarding the kidnaping and r^id It to her and asked her to go before the police judge and contradict it. She agreed to do so. but when she reached the Judge’s office she threw herself on her knees before him and declared the story as toid in the dispatch was substantially true and that she didn’t love him and she wanted to go home. Stilt says he was completely dumbfounded At this unexpected statement and that he immediately :talced the judge 10 taks charge of Ids wife and send her home, and he would pay all expense*.The stories of Mr. and Mrs. Stitt agree in almost every particular, the difference being that Mrs. Stilt claims that she was in greHt fear of Stitt and acted as she did through terror of tne consequences if she refused to do ae he requested, while Stitt maintains that she repeatedly asured him of her love and that she freely consented to marry him and willingly allowed herself to bekidnaped.The story of Ihe kidnaping of hi* bride of less than a week by Harry Stitt, aided by his two most intimate friends* was told In .Saturdays edition of the Journal. Ip to SUtt came the I alternative el:her to kidnap the girl I whom he bad made bis wife a few days • before or be separated from her forever. and he chose the former. So Fridav evening an automobile drew up to and paused before a house on the porch of which sal the young lady guarded by her brother and surrounded by several female relatives. The three men alighted from the car and. headed by Stitt, invaded the yard. Approaching his bride Stitt implored her to go with him. and on her refusal lo do so he nirked her up and ran with her to the automobile, his get-a-way being covered bv his two faithful fri-jndff. The protests and threats of the young lady’s brother, the arrival of the father with a rifie. nor the screams of the voting lady herself as she waft being borne away, availed to prevent the abduction, for in less than two minutes Stitt wm* in the car with hi* bride and his friends and the automobile had disappeared In the darkness.
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Topeka State Journal
Topeka, Kansas, US
Mon, May 29, 1911
Page 9
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CO, USA 07 Mar 2021
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