Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-08-19
ASCRANTOA SCANDAL
Second Baseman Crane EIopeu
with a Married Woman.
BROUGHT BACK FROM NEW YORK

The Baseball Player sympathEsea with
Now Finds Himself Indicted for Lar-
csny Of the $1,000 tho Woman Took
when She Fled with Him.
NEW York, Aug. 10. Second Base
man Samuel Crane, Of the Metropolitan
Baseball club, is in trouble, very hand
some married woman from Scranton,
Pa, being the cause. Inspector Byrnes
received requisition few days ago
from Governor Beaver, asking fer the
arrest of Mrs. Hattie Z. Frouenfelter, %
years old, charged with inRdelity, and
Of Crane for larceny and receiving 81, 500
as stolen property.
Mrs. Frouenfelter's Romance.
The story of the arrest reveals q
romance. Mrs. Frouenfelter was q
widow when she welded her present ac-
cuser. Ten years ago she was led to the
altar, then beautiful girl of Is, by DIR.
Lockerson, of Freehold, N. j. Four
children were the fruit OF this union.
which proved to be a very happy one.
Death garnered three of the little ones
y
father followed them. The young
widow was almost heartbroken and
found Mr.. Irving Frouenfelter, we'll
to-do fruit dealer, of Scranton. full OF
sympathy. A wedding followed.
Ill luck followed the second BRIDE
groom and he failed in business. The
wife, who inherited from the first hus.
band q snug competence, put her money
in the business, and, according to her
statement to Inspector Byrnes, she
saved the place from clamorous credi-
tors, carried on the trade herself and
made that success of 1t which invariably
follows a woman's pluck and enterprise.
Sympathetic Sam.
Frouenfelter, she claims, became ne
glectful of her and her child, abused the
little one and lavished his affection upon
the two children which resulted from
the second marriage To add 10 her
grief, she said, he became .sIady's
man." and devoted his time and means
to making other women happy. one Of
whom is soon to be mother as the re-
suit of his misconduct.
A year ago, in July, Crane, then, as
now, an expert player In baseball nine.
became acquainted with Mrs. Frouen-
felter. They met frequently and Sam
became dear to her. June 20 she left
Scranton suddenly on an eloping tour
and joined Crane in New York. The
fugitive wife took 81 800 from the fruit
business to meet necessary travelling ex-
penses. Crane appeared regularly as
second baseman of the Metropolitan
nine, the woman freqently watching
him from the grand stand.
The deserted husband instituted de
vorce proceedings, and. learning that
under the laws of Pennsylvania she
could be arrested and extradited, dis
continued the civil proceedings and
sought the sterner extremity Of the Grim
inal law.
She Denies the Charge Of Theft.
The eloping couple were arrested in q
boarding house at No. 316 East Forty
second street, where Mrs. FrouenfeIter
was carrying on the dressmaking busi-
ness, while Sam Crane played baseball
for living. She denies that Sam stole
the 81 500 or that he has handled q
penny Of the money, every dollar Of
which is her personal property left to
her by her first husband, and which she
put in the fruit business in Scranton to
save her second husband from bank
ruptcy. The case will De tried in
Scranton.