Saturday, May 19, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: May 19

May 19, 1905 – Driven from home by an angry husband and father who said they “couldn’t do enough work to pay for their board,” Mrs. Lizzie Hagedus and her three small children of Forman, N. D., were found exhausted in the Minneapolis Union Station this evening.

All were so weak from hunger that they could scarcely walk and a policeman took them to Central Station where they were given shelter until the following morning.

The woman told her story to Matron Sarah Schaeffer, and said she had no friends to ask for aid. Both she and the children, she said, had worked on the farm of her husband, who abused them continually, and told them to do more work. Finally, the husband decided that she was worthless, and told her to look for another home.

With her children she walked 30 miles to Barrett, Minn., and there the citizens took up a collection to send to Minneapolis, where, they had heard, poor people were well cared for. The money obtained was just enough to purchase the transportation, and the long fast, together with the walk, exhausted the family.


Barrett, Minn.1




 Forman, N. D.2

The following morning the poor department took up the case and learned that the woman’s story was true. As she is not a resident of Minneapolis, she could not be given aid, and a return ticket to her home was purchased. Arrangements were made with a charitable society at Forman to care for her, and to institute proceedings against her husband.

The Minneapolis Journal; “Driven Out by Brutal Father. Pitiful Plight or Women and Three Children. Turned Away from Home on Dakota Farm Because They Could Not Do More Work—Walked Thirty Miles to Barrett, Minn.—Found Exhausted in Passenger Station in Minneapolis.”; May 20, 1905; p. 6.
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