The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-30
Millionaire Bond, of New York,
Has Woman Arrested.
She Claimed to Be His Common
Law Wife.
DELIVER FURNITURE.
Wanted Him to Take 1t Back
but He Refused.
Woman Tells Her Story in the
Police Court.

New York, March 30.-Turned from the
door Of the millionaire whose common
law wife she says she is and arrested as
a disorderly person because she sought
to return to him the furniture she says
he owns, was the experience of Mrs.
Morse WahI-Bond this week She is Sill
yer haired ana refined looking. She says
Frank S. Bond. vice president of the Chi
cage. Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad, is
her husband; that they entered into
common law contract of marriage "A
yeats ago; that they lived together II
years; that two years ago he deserted
her, that his lawyers have paid 81. $50 to
her, but now that she is poor and needy
he refused to recognize her.
Ms Wahl-Bond was arraigned in the
Yorkville police court, Barnard Smith,
butter for Frank Bond, being the COM
plainant. Mr. Bond lives at No. SO West
Fifsy-first street. Smith told Magistrate
Brown the woman called at the home
Of lis employer with two vans of furni-
ture and instructed the drivers to put
the furniture in Bonds house. The but
Ter called a patrolman and had her ar
rested.
The prisoner was well dressed. She
weDt bitterly as she was telling her story
to the magistrate She asked that her
lawyer, former Senator John G. Boyd, be
telephoned for. as he knew all about the
case.
The hearing was deferred until Mr.
Boyd arrived. Then it was reopened.
Smith, the butler, said he had never seen
the woman before, and when she refused
to leave his employers house he had
called a patrolman.
Mrs. Morse-Wahl, as both sides agreed
to call her, denied that Smith did not
know her. Turning to him, she said:
You do know me and you have often
seen me at Mr.. Bonds house."
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81, 45G which Mr.. Bonds lawyers had
given to her she had supported herself
until two months ago. She then became
destitute and could not pay the rent for
her fiat in No. 240 West Hath street. Last
she was served with a dispOS-
sesa notice and was given until yester-
day morning to move. The furniture, shs
said, was owned by Bond, so she hired
the vans and had it driven to his home |
with the intention Of returning it to him
Iiceman.
Mr.. Boyd asked for the discharge OF
his client, saying:
This poor woman Is the common law
wife of Frank S. Bond. He deserted her
two years ago, after living with her for |
the supreme court for breach of prom
se against Bond and she can prove her
claim"
Sherman w. Kneva1 of the law firm of
hHeVaiS & Ferry, represented MI 1Onu-
When Boyd finished, KneVel said:
What Mr.. Boyd says about this Wo-
man being the common law wife of Boad
IS untrue and he knows it. There is a
suit pending, but there was no litigation
n which this woman claims to be tie
wife of Bond We have in our office her
affidavit and in 1t she specifically says
she is not the wife Of Bond. am sorry
hat this matter has come out, as have
ried to keep it from the public, but we
,annot permit this woman to go to the
Rouse of Mr.. Bond and continually an
10y him, as she has done, now and be-
ore We do not wish to have her pun
shed, but we want her to take her furn-
ture away from the house. Her name
S not Bond, she is sometimes known as
Vail, and at other times as Morse .
Here Mr.. Boyd interrupted: IT'S I'M