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 TOPEKA. Kkx-, July s--Henry ". Moore. r-arzginx editor of the s. Louis Post-Dispzieh and Mrs John W. Norton were arrested this after noon at sss0 o'clock at the Copeland hotel tn this city. where they had reg isfered as ". H. Mason and wife. Philadelphia The arrest was made hy Chief of Police Carter in response to telegram from the Chief of Police of >t- Louis. directing that they be arrested on the charge of grand lar eeuy. As the dispatch did not give the assumed name under which Moore was travelling the police were unable to knd him. Tbey were informed of his whereabouts by correspondent, who was the first to recognize Mi. Moore. having met him at his hotel shortly after he and Mrs Norton took dinner They were in their room al the Copeland when the chief of police and his deputy arrived with the war rant The officers were admitted 10 the room. and before any conversation had been had and without question ing them as to their identity, the war rants were read to them. charging them with grand larceny. You are DON in my custody said the officer. and yca may accompany ne to the county jail, where we will take good care of you until the parties from St. Louis arrive
 UNDER ARREST.
 No sooner had the warrant been fesd than Mrs. Norton broke into tears and erred bitterly. Moore placed his arm about her and attempted to con sole her. but she continued to sob for several minutes Moore then appealed to the officer not to take them to jail. and said 1t will break her heart The chief at first declared that they must go, but finally consented that they might remain in their room at the hotel under the surveillance Of an officer. This had the effect of quieting Mrs. Norton. Then she began to TidI- cule the idea of their arrest on the charge of grand larceny. All We took. said Mrs. Norton. was 8, 800, which was my own money, and my jewelTy. do not see what he Norton expects to make out of this. l would have gone into his house Friday night but he threatened my life. l do not want to die yet. He said he would Xiii me. Friends came out of the house and said he was rourishing a butcher-knife.H
 T tell you W hat would like to do. said NIT. Moore: ..I would like to go ever music there IS. We can prove then that no money was stolen"
 FRIGHTENED WOMAN.
 But he will kill me-" said Mrs. Norton
 You can put him under bonds, :" volunteered Officer Gardiner, If he has threatened your life.
 Officer said MT. Moore. you see our yalises. you see We have touched nothing. That is my satchel' point ing to one on the bed, and this is mine. said Mrs Norton. taking up the other one and what it contains is mine" Mir. Moore then inquired of a newspaper correspondent where he could employ good attorney The names of several were mentioned and at Mir MoOreis request an officer was at once dispatched for Judge Henry Keller. who soon arrived and consult ed privately with the runaways. Moore did not have as much to say about the escapade as Mrs. Norton. ! When the officer inquired what led b 1 the elopement he said he had nothing { to say at this time. He was somewhat nervous and acted like a
 man who had either been | foiled in plot or regretted what he ' had done and had lost heart to carry 1t ! to eonsummation. He said the charges against him and Mrs Norton were un- | founded. They brought nothing be- | longing 10 others away with them.
 They had not s40,oO0; he wished they | had sl0,co.
 VERY BOLD.
 Since he came here, he and his com | panion had gone about the city much | the same as any strangers visiting the city would-promenading the public | streets and riding on street and rapid | transit cars. They had not tried 10 1 conceal their identity. They came ' l to Kansas City. and thence here. He
 said they had intended to go West to- mo w at noon, but would not say what their destination was. As to 1 he story that they had started to Aus ! lralia he laughed and remarked that | t was a bad affair but since they are l into it they will have to make the most 1 of it. No man knows what he will do ! for the woman he loves. he observed. Mrs. Norton moved uneasily about
 the room, first sitting in a chair, then | going to bed, where she fumbled with | bits of faces, gloves. fan and other l trinkets of female adornment. She | appeared to be sad and half sorry that | she had committed the rash act. In- deed. the conduct of both parties war ranted the belief that they regretted | their departure from St. Louis, al ! though Mir Moore tried to appear jolly, | and wanted to leave the impression | that he was undsturbed and that love,
 not he. is to blame. He spoke bitterly
 of the 1t. Louis papers. and said he l had read their idi0tic fiction with pity | ing delight. The stories about his | debts in St. Louis worried him consid- erably, and he was more anxious that 1 charges relating to them should be de- | nied first of all. As to the conse-
 quences of what they had done he was | resigned.
 l Moore and Mrs. Norton arrived here over the Rock Island from Kansas | City at midnight on Saturday night They proceeded at once to the Cope | land hotel, where they registered as
 w. H. Mason and wife, Philadel- { phia." A gent eman acquainted with Mir. Moore's penmanship says that he not only registered under an assumed name but attempted to disguise his
 handwriting. Hecal ed for the best room | in the house, and was assigned to l. room 41 He was recognized by no one all day Sunday. They made no at ! tempt to conceal themselves, but spent | the day driving and walking about the
 city. They were very free with their i money.
 INJURED INNOCENCE.