The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-14
FRANKIE NOW In DALLAS
COUNCILMAN LITTLE FOUND HIM IN
TEXAS LAST NIGHT.
Mrs. CapitO, Who Went Away with the
Contractor, in Jail with
Her Husband.

anu i~uWdTu w. LlllIle Is at this time with
him in that city. His discovery came about
through the woman with whom he eloped,
Mrs. Evalina Capito, wife of Harry Capto,
stage hand. Although the police arrested
the woman Saturday night and have been
working on the case since Franke's disap-
pearance, it was through no fine work of
theirs that the mystery surrounding the
disappearance has been solved.
Friday afternoon man named Smith,
who was Franke's foreman, told Little that
Fl. B. Helm knew something that would be
of interest in the case. Smith first gave
the information that Mrs. Capito had dis
appeared about the same time as FRANKIE.
Smith had seen Helm with a woman whom
he took to be Mrs. Capito, and he believed
Helm could tell where the woman was.
Little found Helm and he agreed to locate
the woman for So This sum was paid him,
and he failed to keep his word. Saturday
night Smith happened in at a West Market
street saloon and found Helm, Harry Capito
and Evalina Capito. He told Little and
Patrolman Rockford where they were
When the police reached the saloon Capito
and his wife had gone, and Helm fled from
the police and entered the Hendricks build
ing. Little and Rockford met Superintend-
ing and they found Sergeant Hyland near
English's Theater. Rockford was armed
with warrant for the arrest of all three
of the people. The agent of the building
pointed out the room which he supposed
was being occupied by the people wanted,
and Superintendent Quigley knocked on the
door. After considerable delay the door
was opened. The trio was there The three
were placed under arrest. Mrs. Capito was
charged with being a person of immoral
character and her husband and Helm with
associating with her.
Mrs. Capito at first denied any knowledge
of FRANKIE, Superintendent Quigley says,
saying that she had been in Terre Haute
during her absence from the CITY, He says
she afterward admitted that she had been
with FRANKIE. She said they had gone to
Dallas Tex and that FRANKIE was there,
in good health and negotiating for the pur-
chase of a farm; that he expected to locate
there permanently. He had permitted her
to come home to see her husband and get
her personal effects. The Capitos were
slated under the name of Smith.
MRS. CAPITO TALKS.
Mrs. Capito was seen in the Jail yester-
day. She is a small woman, twenty-five
years of age, of very dark complexion and
of probable Spanish extraction. She is good
looking, though not beautiful. She talks
and acts like a child which had been ac-
customed to being humored.
Superintendent Quigley told me not to
talk to reporters" she said. THAT was the
reason That our right names were not placed
on the slate
She at first refused to talk, but afterward
said that she had eloped with FRANKIE. I'VE
went directly to Dallas" she said. He is
going to buy farm there, and we are to
live on it, And, again, she said: 1T is
not true that | expected to take my hus-
intended to return. l did not intend to. My
husband and / intended going to Danville
last Saturday night"
There have never been any improper re-
lations between u.s. she declared. lit was
purely a business matter with me-"
why did FRANKIE want to leave home,
then, If he was not infatuated with yOu?
she was asked.
II don't know. suppose he was tired -
Saturday night the police found two
trunks and some other personal effects be-
longing to the Capitos at the Union Station.
They supposed that the two were going to
Dallas, and they were suspicious that their
intentions towards FRANKIE were not the
best. 1t is claimed that Mrs. Capito told
the police that she intended going TO Dali
las and living with FRANKIE on the farm,
while her husband was to find employment
in the city and surrender her to FRANKIE.
This story Mrs. Capito Indignantly denied
yesterday afternoon. When arrested Capt.
to had $5S, which Mrs. Capito said she had
given him. She said FRANKIE gave her $40
when she left him. She arrived here last
Tuesday and read the newspaper accounts
of the efforts to locate FRANKIE. She smiled
when she was asked if she had heard of
Mr.. Little's trip to Hammond to Identify a
dead man supposed to be FRANKIE. The Cap
tics and Helm were in Police Court yester-
day morning, and their cases were contin-
ued until Thursday, in order to give Lit
tie a chance to come TO settlement with
FRANKIE in Dallas.
A TELEGRAM FROM LITTLE.
A telegram was received last night by
John j. Rockford from Little. 1t was dated
at Dallas at 621 p. m, and was as fol-
lows: FRANKIE alive. Everything is well.
Got here tonight
Just how to interpret this message Roch-
ford does not know. Little went to Dallas,
and, in fact, has been acting in the case
as the attorney for Mrs. FRANKIE He was
on small Improvement bond for FRANKIE,
but the contract has been transferred and
the bond Cancelled. He is now acting for
Mrs. FRANKIE. The absence of FRANKIE has
left the FRANKIE estate in an uncertain con-
dition. The estate consists of a hundred
and-sixty-acre farm, the home property at
6S keystone avenue and about twenty-five
horses and a number OF wagons and street.
Improvement implements. The personal
property anu the nome are
but there is a mortgage of $500 on the
farm. With FRANKIE absent and alive ii
is impossible for the property interests to
be properly looked after. Everything is in
his name, and it would be impossible for
Mrs. FRANKIE to settle the mortgage without
his signature. Mr.. Little carried with him
papers which he hoped to have Mr. FRANKIE
sign, which will transfer all the property
to his wife. 1t may be that the contractor
will be induced to return home, but If he
will not the next step is to get him to deed
n 10 xxif he ga n
tect it. Mrs. FRANKIE seems Indifferent about
her husband, not seeming to care whether
or not he returns. She is however, inter-
ested in the property, and is anxious that
some kind of settlement be made.
FRANKIE disappeared Friday. Nov. 49, He
left home in the morning and failed to re-
turn at noon, as was his custom. At night
his wife received a note saying that he had
gone away to figure on a big contract, and
might be gone about a week. Mr.. Little
thought he went to Chicago, and followed
him there, as he supposed, but failed to
find him. Then word came that he was in
Sullivan county. but this proved equally
untrue. Later Mr. Little suspected that
he had committed suicide near Hammond.
FRANKIE has been living in Dallas under the
name of John Moore, at 264 Elm street. He
has wife and six small children living at
IS keystone avenue.
TO IMPROVE THE CORNERS.