News: Anna Kottmyer, 1912, York County, PA

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Unconscious Girl
Picked Up by Trolley Employees – Was Walking to Hanover

Unconscious from weariness resulting from tramping seventeen miles, and lack of 
food, Anna Koyymyer, aged sixteen ??? of ?????, was found along the trolley line 
at the New Baltimore station, one mile from Hanover, last night.  The girl 
walked the entire distance Monday in the intense heat of the sun, and had 
nothing to eat all day.

Motorman Lee Sechrist and Conductor Henry Crist, in charge of the trolley car, 
noticed the girl along the tracks, acting strangely.  She was recognized by a 
resident of York.  On the return trip leaving Hanover at 10 o’clock, Motorman 
Sechrist kept a sharp lookout, fearing that he might run over the girl.  At the 
New Baltimore, station he noticed the girl lying on the platform with her feet 
on the ground.  She was then unconscious.  She was carried into the car and 
taken to York.  The ambulance met the trolley car at Centre Square and the girl 
was taken to City hall, and later to the hospital.

When questioned as to what she was doing in that part of the county the girl is 
said to have told the police that her parents had a quarrel, and drove her from 
home.  The hospital authorities stated that the girl was suffering chiefly from 
exhaustion, and would be discharged from the institution some time today.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, September 14, 1912

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Anna, the 17-year-old daughter of Charles Kottmyer, of York, who was found in an 
unconscious condition Monday evening along the Hanover Trolley line, at the New 
Baltimore station, and who was taken to the York hospital, was discharged form 
that institution Tuesday morning and taken to her home.

The mother denied the story of the daughter, who said that she had been driven 
from home.  Mrs. Kottmyer said that the girl left home on her own accord and had 
started for Gettysburg, where she had a girl friend, and at which place she 
expected to secure work.

The Hanover Herald - Saturday, September 14, 1912

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Runaway Girl Married

Anna Kottmyer, the 17-year-old daughter of Charles Kottmyer, of York, who was 
found exhausted along the Hanover trolley line last Monday, was married by 
Alderman Walter F. Owen Friday, Sept. 13, to William Henry Wible, aged 30 years, 
of Gettysburg.  When the girl was brought home it was stated that she had 
started to walk to Hanover to find work.  It was afterward learned that she was 
on her way to Gettysburg in search of Wible.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, September 21, 1912