The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-19
WIFE'S FLIGHT TO BALTIMORE
MRS. DON A. DODGE HAS DETEC-
TIVES MEET HER THERE.
Gave Her Husband the Slip in This City
and Got Police Escort TO the Ferry
Says Her Husband Threatened to
Shoot Her II She Went to baltimore.

Says Her Husband Threatened to
BALTIMORE, Sept. 1s.-Weak and trem-
bling from fright, because. as she alleged
her husband had threatened to shoot her
IL she came to Baltimore, Mrs. Don A.
Dodge, wife Of the former proprietor OF the
Northampton Hotel and well known man
of this city, arrived in Baltimore last night
from New York; city. She was met by
Detectives Bradley and Armstrong OF the
local detective department and escorted
by them to the home OF her step-parents at
ia North Poppleton street.
Two days ago they quarrelled. She then
declared to him that she would leave him
and go to Baltimore This he forbade
but she bided her time and seized her OPP
portunity at noon yesterday. Accompanied
by her husband, she went to the shopping
district, where she gave him the slip and
made at once for police station, where she
secured detectives to escort her to the
ferry, and at the same time sent the follow
ing telegram to the Baltimore detective
department:
Have a man meet train 523, due lo:55,
Mount Royal station. / fear trouble.
Miss DUETsCH.
Under escort Of the Pullman car men she
arrived in Baltimore, where Detectives
Bradley and Armstrong met her, and 1t
was decided to take Der to her former home
at ia North Poppleton street.
About two years ago MIR. Dodge was
arrested in New York as he was leaving
the French liner Savoie on a warrant sworn
out by Mrs. Dodge. who declared that her
husband had abandoned her for another
woman, with whom he sailed from Europe.
just before he left the ship he said good.by
to young woman who had been fellow
passenger. Mrs. Dodge was on the pier
with two detectives. She pointed out her
husband as he left the ship. He had been
on Is, 900 mile automobile tour in Europe
When the case came up Magistrate Hogan
called his probationary officer and told him
to take the party into his room and see If
a reconciliation could not be effected.
Dodge had a sorry look, and seemed anxious
to be forgiven and make up. That WAS what
the woman wanted. In a minute after enter
ing the room, it is said she was hanging to
his neck, telling him how deeply she loved
him, how poignant her grief was when he
ran away from her, and the feeling of morti-
fcation that was hers when she saw another
woman clinging to his arm as he was leav-
ing the steamer
Touched by her evidence Of devotion the
prisoner promised never to desert her again,
to give her his undivided attention In the
future and to love and cherish her as long
as he lived. The wife then agreed to with
draw her charge.
.Iu forgive you this time" wept Mrs.
Dodge, sbut never will again. The couple
explained to Magistrate Hogan that they
were reconoiled.
Then you don't want to press the
charger" asked the Magistrate, addressing
the woman.
"No, not this time, replied Mrs. Dodge.
The couple left the court room and, enter
ing carriage. were driven to their apart
ments in the Riviera. Mrs. Dodge was
formerly Miss Marie Mccoy. who was left
an orphan early in life and was reared and
cared for by an aunt. Mr.. Dodge came
to Baltimore soon after the Spanish Ameri-
can War secured a place as margin
clerk with stock brokerage Arm, and
subsequently, became manager for the
brokerage firm of Joseph Cowan 6 Co.
In 1902 Mr.. Dodge purchased the North
ampton Hotel paying cash therefor. He
ran the hotel for several months, when
he became associated with q stock broker
age firm in New York. Three months later
he sold the hotel and has since made his
home in New York.
Soon after coming to Baltimore Mr..
Dodge met Miss Mccoy then little over
IS years old Friendship quickly ripened
into love, and they were married at the
residence of a Protestant clergyman on
Liberty street, near Lexington. They
seemed to live happily together for time