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How 6 Highly Respected Woman 1 was Recently Dell With.Mis. Eunice Steele. lives in Champaign, this state. She was married a short time ago end she end her friends j went to Bloomington on the wedding t trip. The two gentlemen who aooom- a paiiied the newly wedded pair were a I Mr. Dempster and Mr. Robinson. On 1 the train ooe ot these men got into con* e v?rastioa with the expteee agent. When v: the train arrived in Bloomington the ] agent mieaed • 160, and as the wedding « party seemed to he well supplied with ] money they were a aniseed of the thett. t Protest was nselaes. They explained | the situation and who they were but it t was of no avail. In broad day light the f party were marched through the streets 1 to the police station under charge of offi- ] cere end there held, The complaint wa i made by two oonductors of the Wabash 1 and an operator, J, 0. House. The men i were searched foi the missing money, c but no evidence of it obtainable. The j Woman was stripped by two outcasts of i the oity—Mollie Brennan, and Hat i B wallow—in an endeavor to find it on i her person. The minutest portion of her 1 clothing tub gone through, but the 1 search was fruitless. They were held , for examination, Alderman Brewer going i on tneir bonds. Soon after ttuo the eul- ' prit hud been) discovered and when that was made known the charge ngainat those persons wan withdrawn.Mrs. Steele, through her at'omey, John 0. Stjigg. filed her declaration in the circuit court Saturday afterooon against the Wabash company, the conductors end the opezator the in sum of $5,000 damages. During the week separate suite Will be begun by Mr. Bmgg on behalf of Mr Steele, Dempser and Robinson for the same amount and against the same parties. It was contemplated to bring an action against the officers who made the arrest, bat while there might be same satisfaction in the oonvicttoo there would be no prospect tor a recovery of any stun.QaIad Af Uaal Patnfn
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Decatur Weekly Republican
Decatur, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 17, 1891
Page 5
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