Dennis - Lulu - found - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

A sensational episode which had some of the features of a kidnapping case took place at the Robbins House last week. The parties interested were Mrs. Anna Dennis, of Colorado Springs, Col., and her daughter, Miss Lulu Dennis. Mrs. Anna Dennis is the divorced wife of Sylvester Dennis, of Denver, Col., who is the son of the late M. P. Dennis, of this city, by his first wife. When a divorce was granted to Mr. Dennis some years ago in the Colorado courts the custody of the child, Miss Lulu Dennis, was given to him. Wishing her to have the advantage of a good education and the comforts of a good home, he brought her to this city and placed her in charge of his stepmother, Mrs. Clarinda Dennis. It was his instructions that the young lady should not be permitted to correspond with her mother and these orders were enforced. Miss Dennis fretted under this restraint and carried her fancied troubles to friends of hers, who sympathized with her. Through these friends secret correspondence was carried on between mother and daughter. Week before last Miss Dennis telegraphed for her mother to come here. Mrs. Dennis arrived last Thursday night and went to the Robbins House, where she registered under an assumed name. Later in the evening she signed her real name.

Early in the evening Miss Dennis slipped away from home unobserved and joined her mother at the hotel. Soon after, mother and daughter dispatched notes to the girl’s grandmother, Mrs. Dennis. The note from Mrs. Anna Dennis thanked Mrs. Dennis for caring for Miss Lulu, and said that she would relieve her from further responsibility. In the note sent by the young lady, she asked that her trunk, which she had previously packed be sent to the hotel as she was going to leave with her mother.

As soon as these notes came Dr. Fred Dennis went to the hotel. When he appeared the mother, Mrs. Anna Dennis, became highly excited and, it is said, struck the doctor in the face. After matters had quieted down a truce was patched up and the young woman agreed to come back home until her father, who has been telegraphed for, arrives from the west. Thus the matter stands awaiting future developments.