Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).Extract from the Saint Paul, Minnisota Sunday Globe, 6 July 1884.
Officer Thomas P. Scahill of the Bremen district police, rescues 13 year old Girtie Newsome, from a circus where she had been portrayed as a Circassian Girl. Gertie from Saint Georges, Delaware, had been kidnapped five years before and made to perform in the circus.
The rest of the story can be read at the above link to the Saint Paul Sunday Globe.
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