Arizona republican., 1900-11-04
Arrested, Charged With Vio-
 Iating the Edmunds Act.
The Woman the Married Daughter of Prominent Los Angeles Lawyer, the Man a Magnetic Healer and Hypnotist.

netic healer of Los Angeles, were. last night and are yet guests of Sherif Murray. awaiting their examination ! before United States Commissioner l Crenshaw at 10 o'clock tomorrow, on a | charge of adultery. Mrs. Binford is i daughter of Judge C. C. McComas or Los Angeles, assistant United States district attorney. and known all over | the coast. Her husband, C. M. Binford. | is bookkeeper for the Bashford, Bur mister company Prescott. or Harris i little is known except that he Is l rather preposSessing young man or 25 or 3O professes to be hypnotist and | magnetic healer and has wife llVlng | at Los Angeles.
 The pair came here last Monday morning and registered at the hotel Adams as c. w. Long and wife Ihev l resided at the hotel until 10 o'clock yes terday morning, when Deputy Ohlteu l States Marshal Porterie arrested them and took them to the sherin's otilce: i The United States commissioner liAeu the bond of each at $500.
 A telegram was sent to JudSe Mo- Conlas informing him of his daughter ; blight. and he at once began trying lo arrange the bond, but it was not com- pleted last night.
 The warrant for their arrest was sworn out by the deputy United states marshal on information which came 'o | him through the office of the ohlte" States attorney at Prescott, where the woman's husband had made cornpidlil'' l'' The woman herself furnished the dls- closure which set the machinery or tlle law in motion, and the manner III which she went about it would lnulch'e . -hat she is troubled with sottenlhs oL inc brain. rather than loosenesS ol
 morals. One day last week she "role g,er husband telling him that she Was etopplng at the Hotel Adams under liie name of Mrs. C. w. Long, thdI Si'S loved him no more, was llred oi mn and hoped that he would get divorce She calculated that the information shS had given him would make 1t easy TOT him. The reply to this refhdrAaole A,'l eDistIe was the warrant of arrest Pie
 sented by the deputy United ota'eS marshal.
 The sudden transition of these people from the hotel to the jail oIcas' ''i-e'. a great deal of surprise. They had mingled with people of the mShest re soectability all week, had conducted
 
 the slightest doubt had arisen that they were not MT. and Mrs. C. w. Long. After their arrest Mrs. Binford wanted to send word to ladies of the greatest respectabflity informing them Of her detention and requesting them to do something for her relief. The deputy United States marshal wisely neglected this request. ~ Neither she nor Harrls ba seriousness of their position, notwithstanding thare must almost certainly be dead-in-the- door evidence against them and not wfthstanding their proven offense would mean a period of not more than three years at Yuma. They treated the elopernent as great lark and their ar rest and detention as a huge joke. Both talked very freely, assuming that since each loved the other more than any body else in the world. their conduct had been natural and even merjtorlous.
 This view of the case, though, did not prevent Harris from wiring his wife yesterday afternoon for money.
 Mrs Binford has had a rather Stlr- ring career for one so young and does not seem to be wholly culpable. She l believes that her husband is largely l to blame for her lack of affection for him. Their marriage, a little more than a year ago. took place in Prescott, atfer | the excitement of an elopement. Blh- ford had been clerk in the First Ma | tfonal bank of Los Angeles. NIT. and Mrs. Binford settled down in Prescott and the husband became bookkeeper for the Bashford- -Burm;ster company. He is a good bookkeeper, but it is said he was not sufficiently .LpDreciative Of the charms of his young wife. He used to add excitement to his home life by inviting friends to his house at night. They played penny ante and drank wisely. Mrs. Binford used to sit | around and watch the game and at length learned to sip beer and nip whisky. She didn't drink enough to hurt her, got only blase enough to be tired of sitting around watching; slo% poker game. Troubles arose iu tl:e Bin ford household and five months ago she returned to the home of her father. During her stay there she says she never received a dollar nor z word or encourag cement. She was welcome enough at home. but it was rather em- barrassing to be an incumorance. c2h- sidering the manner i'll which she lad left the parental roof. 1 Then she got acqualnte tea with 1dIIIS' They at once felt that they were made for each other and that the fates which had linked them to other people were unusually blind or perverse. After while the elopement was decided Upon and undertaken last Saturday night. They came here by the northern route, and so passed through Prescott, put | tbev, did not wire Mir BinfOrd that IEey were coming. Another passenger on the same sleeper was D. E. Behlow, a San Francisco travelling man, who isl being sought by the government as an l important witness.
 Late yesterday afternoon some of the | iocular features of the position of Mrs l Rinford and Harris had passed away 1 and they sent for Judge Baker. As