The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-26

was there to prevent the actress and
her "recreant" lover from dropping
the curtain, closing the comedy, and
going away to Japan on another elope-
ment?
The Inside story.
The World gives the following as the
true inside story of the recent esca-
pade of Putnam Bradlee Strong, the
petted son whose misdoings have
wrecked the peace and hurt the for
tunes of one of New York's most high
ly respected families.
Young Strong is now safe from ar
rest, thanks to his mother and sister.
Strong will probably never appreciate
the sacrifice made by the gentle moth
er and sister to save the honored fam
lily name from further disgrace. The
mother, Verging on the border OF to-
tai physical collapse, and the sister,
who sacrificed her pride to the extent
of making a personal appeal to him
to leave the Yohe woman, prevented
his arrest as a criminal on his arrival
in Europe by advancing sufficient
money to placate the Yohe woman.
This amount was found by the in
vestigation of friends of the Strong
family to be necessary to reclaim the
jewelry that Strong had pawned. The
value of this jewelry was in the neigh
borhood of $S5, 900, and not $3.50, 900, as
has been stated.
Ninety-nine per cent. of the jewelry
taken by Strong was the property Of
the Yohe woman, but had been given
by her to him voluntarily. The other
one percent. was the property of the
Japanese maid of the Yohe woman and
had not been given to Strong volun-
tarily
1t was for the theft of this one arti-
Gle stolen from the maid that the law
yer of the Yohe woman began criminal
proceedings against young Strong.
If the settlement had not been made
by the mother and sister the Yohe
woman and her legal advisers were
prepared to invoke the functions of the
New York police department in COM
handing the arrest of Strong by the
English authorities for stealing the
property of the Japanese maid. The
draft of a cablegram requesting the
authorities of Scotland Yard, London,
to arrest and detain Strong until the
arrival of extradition papers was al
ready prepared.
Mrs. Strong and her daughter, Mrs.
Shattuck, the sister of the disgraced
young man, did not hesitate to make
the sacrifice necessary when this draft
of cable authorization for thesarrest
of the son was shown to them. Both
ladies, it is needless to say, feel most
keenly the humiliation which the son
of the late Mayor w. L. Strong had
brought upon them, but they are not
without hope that the lesson he has
learned will compel a change in his
conduct, the primary step of which will
be his complete reputation of the
Yohe woman.
The mother and sister of Strong do
not know what plans he has made for
the future, beyond an intimation con-
veyed to them in letter thatshe would
seek out remote corner of the world
and go to work to rehabilitate himself.
The only other communication they had
from him was in the shape of letter
declaring his intention to commit sui
eide and inclosing the pawn tickets
for the jewelry he had taken from the
Yohe woman.
They have been advised since in an
indirect way that Strong changed his
mind about committing suicide and
would start anew to make a name for
himself. 1t is not expected that he
will remain long in Europe, but that
he will go to South Africa or the Far
East,