Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-23
FINDS RUNAWAY WIFE.
Husband Plays Detective and Finally
Succeeds in Long Search.

A dispatch from New York says: After
weeks of weary searching in the south,
Herbert L. Scott, a wealthy contractor and
builder of Abbeville, Ga, found his runa-
way wife living in this city with the ply
stefan who had attended her in a pro-
longed illness. The husband declares that
the woman has either been under a hyp-
motto influence or else has been kept in
complete subsection by the physician with
drugs.
Scott has been on the hunt for his wife
since June ID, and has spent small for
tune in prosecuting the search. The irate
husband had sworn to. have the life of the
man whom he accuses of Turing his wife
away. He was only induced to forswear
this VOW a few days ago when he discov-
cred that the pair had fled to New York.
His friends in the south succeeded in per-
suading him to leave his pistol with them
before taking his departure for New York.
The long search in the south was prose-
cuted through the fraternal orders to which
belong both Scott and the physician, who is
Dr. A II. Crawford, one of the leading prac-
utioners of Georgia up to the time of his
desertiOn of his wife and children in June
to run away with the wife of his lifelong
friend.
On the 18th of that month Mrs. Scott left
home, ostensibly to pay visit to the home
of her father al Charleston, S. c. On the
same day DR.. Crawford left home, inform
Ing MS VIE tndl ne was gong TO chicago
to take postgraduate course in medicine.
The deserted husband spent weeks in
searching for some clue to the missing
pair. He went to Chicago and visited all
of the hospitals in the hope of finding DIR.
Crawford. for he was not long In making
the discovery that the family physician
had met his wife at Savannah But he
found that DR.. Crawford had not been reg
istered at any of the Chicago hospitals
Scott then returned to Georgia and took
Ia .ic Tod
by fellow members of the Masonic order
OF which both he and the runaway physi-
elan were members The discovery was
finally made that Dr. Crawford and Mrs.
scott had met at Savannah and there
taken passage for New York on the coast
inner Kansas City without delay. They &C.
cupied state room No. 13.
me husband at once started for New
YORK to continue his search. He arrived
mere on Thursday and the following day
ne made the discovery that Dr. Crawford
was registered as a student at the POST
Graduate Hospital. Goth street and I'd ave-
nue.. Armed with this informa ton he went
to nearby barber shop and had his nns,
tache shaved off so that he could NOT h,
readily recognized. "
Scott then took up his vigil in the street
IN front of the hospital He waited thera
for hours before he was at las ran,. -
Or crawford came out of the hosnit,j an1
started down toward 10Th street Scott
IoiloWed hundred PAGES behind. The
"'It dilectly TO the house ar
NO 30 East 18th street, and the wronped
husband waited outside. A half hour lafer
Dr crawford left the house alone A faw
minutes later Scott rang the bell and asL.
ed TO see Mrs. Crawford"
He was taken up to the room occun;ad by
the woman and her supposed husband and
there he found his wife She annearad 70
be half dazed, and was not able to Give
any sort or an account of herself A half
hour later DR.. Crawford returned to CON
front the husband of the woman with
whom he had fled. Scott denounced the
physician, and said afterward that the lat
ter made no attempt to defend his course
Scott warned him that if he ever return
ed to their native state his life would nav
the penalty of his misdeed He declared
that he would shoot him on sight.
The contractor then took his wife to the
Glen Island Hotel, Raines law resort at
Cortiandt and West streets. He explained
afterward that he selected this obscure
place lest DR.. Crawford might follow them
and in his absence lure his wife away
again. ''
1T is my firm belief that nv wife has all
the time been under some strange infiu-
ence." said Scott
My wife admits to me now that she
never cared anything about Dr. Crawford
but says that for some inexplicable rea son
she could not help but go away with him
when he asked ler to do so
Il shall take my wife back to the south
and place her in a sanitarium in the hone
of restoring her health"