Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-07-24
FULTON DID NOT ELOPE.
Chicago Man Sought by Former
Wisconsin Employer.
LOCATED IN OSHKOSH
He Says He Did Not Embezz1e Nor
Did He Marry the Woman
in the Case.

Fred +. Fulton of Chicago was arrested
here today charged with embezzlement
He is now in Jail awaiting the arrival of
officers from Madison and Chicago
Miss Harriet Alderman of Freeport, ILL.,,
with whom it is alleged he eloped, has
not been found here, although the po-
lice have been searching the city for her.
The police received word yesterday
from Madison officials to arrest Fulton
who it was believed was in Oshkosh.
Later in the day word was received from
Chicago to hold Miss Alderman, who
was believed to be with Fulton.
Fulton has been in Oshkosh soliciting
pictures for enlargement by the India ink
process. Yesterday he called at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Hitler and was told to re-
turn this morning and get a photograph
to enlarge. The police tracked Fulton to
Mrs. Killers yesterday and she told them
that Fulton would return today.
Fulton Placed Under Arrest.
This morning the police watched the
house and Mrs. Hitler agreed to tele
phone the station as soon as Fulton came.
Shortly after II o'clock Fulton arrived
at the house. Miss Hitler Immediately
telephoned as planned. Fulton becoming
suspicious, rushed out of the house and
was arrested as he reached the street.
AT the station Fulton stated that G.
III. Brundidge, who is the complainant in
the case owed him SIS. He said he
had collected a $12 bill and had kept it
as part payment of Brundidge's debt.
He claims that Brundidge owes him Sc
and that he is prosecuting him to get
him out of the India ink picture bust
ness and thus stop competition.
In regard to Miss Ackerman, he assures
the police that he does not know where
she is. He says he has not married her
and does not want to. The little affair be-
V,c,
ton.
Fulton is a fine-looking fellow and well
dressed. He says he has found the pic
ture business quite profitable.
The Story from Chicago.
Chicago. H., July 20.-If Fred F. Full
ton OF Chicago is in Oshkosh soliciting
pictures for enlargement by the India
ink process and pursuing the even tenor
of his way, as his friends assert, his
ears must certainly be tingling at the
stories that are being repeated about him
in Chicago.
There is warrant out for his arrest
and one of the stories is that as solicitor
and collector for one c. II. BrundidgP,
an India ink artist. he was sent to col
lect bill of $40 July IA but failed to
return to Brundidge. Another is that
he has eloped with Miss Harriet Acker-
man of FreepOrt. ILL.,. and that the girls
mother wants them both arrested to pre-
vent their marriage
Mr.. Fulton's friends do not believe
either of the stories. and say that when
the matter is sifted to the bottom he will
be indicated. Mr.. Fulton bears a good
reputation in the neighborhood of 5227
kimbark avenue. where he lives with his
parents. He made teh acquaintance of
Brundidge some weeks ago and was in
duced, his friends say, to accompany the
travelling India ink artist through Wis
consn soliciting business. Fulton thought
the scheme a good one and concluded to
try it for a time. He wrote his friends
from Madison that it was a good bust
ness and that he had become as expert
in the artist line as his instructor.
Brundida:e's Story.
Brundidge came to Chicago yesterday
and brought with him Chief of Police
Shaughnessy of Madison. who was the
bearer of warrant for Fulton's arrest.
Brundidge told the police that he Is a
dealer in India inks in Madison. and that
recently he offered Fulton job. which
was accepted Brundidge sent Fulton ont
TO collect a bill for $50 the morning of
July IA, and the man failed to return
with the money. Brundidge also said in
cidentally that Fulton had taken with
him in his fight Miss Harriet Alderman
of Freeport, Ill, and that her mother was
much incensed thereat, and wanted the
couple arrested before they got married.
1t being the suspicion of Brundidge and
the Madison sheriff that Fulton might
get married in Chicago, they came here
to stop the wedding
The friends of Fulton assert that Brun-
didge is romancing about the loss of $40,
and that his real aim is to keep Fulton
from doing the India ink picture enlarg-
ing business on his own account, instead
of bringing dollars into the Brundidge
pocket. They say that if he wants to
marry Miss Alderman and she wants to
marry him there Is no reason socially or
lawfully why the union shall not be con-
summated. They assert that Fulton is
26 years old, and that the young woman
is of legal age.
Calls on Mrs. Fulton.
Yesterday Brundidge called at the Full
ton home, and, according to the state
ment of Mrs. Fulton, asked her for
money, asserting that her son had left
him and gone into the business of max
ing pictures by his process, very much
to his injury, financially. Mrs. Fulton
declined to accede to his demands for
money and referred Brundidge to her
son for any claim which he might imag-
inc he had against him. Brundidge
called two or three times, it is said. but
got no satisfaction, and, it is then as
serted, put the matter in the hands of
the police for adjustment.
When the matter was turned over to
the police yesterday, Chief of Detectives
Colleran detailed Detectives Howe and
O'Connell to prevent a marriage between
Mr.. Fulton and Miss Alderman, and i'll
cidentally to apprehend the young man
if he is in Chicago Up to a late hour
last night they had not located the cou-
pie. The friends of Mr.. Fulton say he
is doing picture-enlarging business in