The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-22
4 VERSATILE RASCAL
Eli, Dallies With Not Only
Checks but Tickle Danes.
nc RECORD IN THREE CITES.
.taed as For-ger OF Newman Check
His Romantic Adventures on &
Hartstein Island.

roux tna man arrested by Sber-
-, ae Vanter last evening vas posi-
- identified as the nnap VINO pFess-S<so
$50 check a. SewulAn'E grocery store
Sas,,,ssS a hsIl Of goods ana sa4af15e IN
- Ne was kept In the Jail over ilign1
81 ,.ss,sr4ay moTnlng taken % Snelloh
= s,er5r Caldwell, OF taat place. INV
..-st.on shows that Felix mas me fepusA
- - heing a crook IN other places. De-
- ssst;le and Shelton, as the follow
So Stsnafea from Tacoma viii show.
'As - - Dec I.-Special.-Ihe career OF
- Felix. who Eas arrested al Seattle
-. right. has been checkered of'e. MS
familiar one 70 the ponce aatnoF-
- - - th.s city, as well as 10 tho5e OF
- - coftntv. Felix was arrested here
re,na LAST, charged by John Meerane'
lager OF q variety theater. WIN oDtsin-
= -~sfev On check drawn on the BANK
- r-stssh Columbia. in which Felix repre-
= $50 10 had a balance. The transaction
fsase a1,.-eag 10 have occurred in November.
- Fejix vas bound over 10 the supe-
- ..,,rt and released on $50 bail. While
I.s ~. - bords he elopea with Mrs. Wyn>an.
o- - the captaIn OF the steamer sophia
-. ugas early N August last. one OF
.-@rx.a bondsEnen Withdrew aud Dencn
.--.nt was issued for nis arrest. SpeclAI
49,, sheriff Dufisld. after week
- cantured him at the home OF MS
s.esr W. Felix, on Hartsteln lslaHo'
es~ssr IL He was caught IN oeo Win
80 Wynan, w8o. 1t was alleged look
- n money and jewelry on her night
80, was again lodged in jail. Early
- T.eepber new bonds were furnished.
- - Tel.x stepped forth from the cool
-.,Aor Of the county jail, Sherifr Sam
p"as~sa. OF Mason county, n1boed him on
Ns,r.nt charging him with seduction.
-, there Sheriff Parker lost track OF
- hut was informed SONG weeks ago
- he had escaped from the Mason conh~
- IN while in confinement here, Felix
= rgrefuIy planned an escape, but his
iettars 70 his father fell into the snerIh
bsnds and his scheme faded,
re story OF Felix's adventures WIN
urg Wvrnsn was told at great lsnsth Dy
- sraooYua press at the time OF its nap
- TIE woman left her coy little
80 in Burton, and at Tacoma took the
sssaner FLYER for this city. She mad
- trunk. and is said TO have taken
,vlth her s5o0 which her husband had
.ayaa and many Valuables from their
sone Felix met her in Seattle on her
srrIval and together they took in the
,ozn. remaining several days. the couple
then went to the home OF Felix father
az Jerrald Cove, Hartstein island whefe
introduced
reigbbors as his wife. At 4 80 o'clock one
,norning. several days after they arrived,
,aur special officers knocked at the door
~ the house, the senior Felix responding
lie was Informed that they had warrant
for his son, bat he said young Felix was
~ at home. The officers did not believe
him and begun a search of the house, max
lag the old gentleman act In the capacity
% guide He showed them everywhere
about the house, but would invariably
rass one bedroom. The officers grew sus-
piclous and on opening the door of this
room found young Felix and Mrs. Wyman
occupying II. In order to get as much evil
denee as possible. the other officers were
called in as witnesses OF the discovery.
Mrs. Wyman did not try TO conceal her
face. but seemed anxious TO exhibit X.
Felix was arrested and taken 70 Tacoma
the same afternoon, Mrs. Wyman accom-
panying him The arrest OF Felix WAS be-
cause one OF his bonosmen. I'm case
whore he was charged with having drawn
a check for SO against a Tacoma bank In
which he had no funds, notified the au-
thori.ies for release from the bond because
o. a suspicion that Felix intended 10 leave
the country.
Felix seems 10 be more than an average
lothario. for Mrs. Wyman Is said TO have
been the second woman he led away from
a home and a good husband. About year
ago he ran away with Mrs. Ava Blake.
postmistress at Hartstein island. He took
her 70 Tacoma and they occupied rooms
several weeks at a lodging house. When
Felix attempted 10 compel the woman to
support him she left him.
Felix Is said 10 have a wife and child
living. They are believed to he In Kansas.
Ills own relatives ever on Hartstein island
say he has served two years term IN the
Kansas state prison at Lawrence for
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