The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22
ONE WOMAN MONEY
Furnishes a Young Man The Opportunity
10 Ned Another = Discarded
Woman Wants Revenge.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Curtis Remembered
by Friends on Sixty-tWo Years
OF Married Life.
Independent Telephone Co. Granted Per.
mission to Use Country Roads to
Erect Poles TO Mitchell.
c. F. BATES IN TROUBLE
Young Man Who Married a Mitchell
Girl Last Month is Sought
by the Police.

The Denver Post of July ID prints
an interesting story concerning
Charles +. Bates, who was united in
marriage in this city to Miss Jennie
Boice June 20. The day before he
IA married a telegram was received
ny the cheif OF police TO arrest Mr..
Bates on the ground of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Bates
told the officers there was nothing to
the charge and as he stated that he
was going direct TO Denver after his
marriage he was not placed under
arrest. After their departure from
Mitchell it is reported that they had
some bad suck in the way OF losing
all their money Just before reaching
Denver 10y being held up by parties
on the tram while they were asleep
in the coach. The Post gives che
following account of the affair and
also publishes a picture of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bates:
Mis-. Estella lIankla of 2l56 Stout
street, VINO claims to have been left
penniless by being lleeced out of 5000
by Charles +. Bates, is not the only
victim OF the latter, according to the
theory of the police. Detectives
working on the case say they have
found evidence proving conclusively
that Bates, who was married to Miss
Jennie Boice at Mitchell, S. D.,
June 20, during his siX-months So
journ in this city, cut a wide swath
in the society of a number of women.
That he has treated others as he has
Mrs. Hankla, the detectives say is
not unlikely.
Bates meteoric career in Denver
is briefly as follows: Posing as the
son OF wealthy parents in Mitchell,
S. d., he anne to Denver in the in
terestS OF an eastern insurance order
Mitchell. The young swell soon In
gratiated himself among the women.
Among these was Mrs. EStella Hank
la, a widow in the thirties, with
four children, ranging in age from
II to 4 years.
When Mrs, HanlSla later purchased
a rooming house at 1882 Champa
street, he and his brother, William
ii. Bates, became her first boarders.
Bates and Mrs. lIankla became en-
gagged. Arrangements for the we'd
Cling we're made, the date for the
nuptials being set for June 10.
After conducting the rooming
house a month. Mrs. Haklin sold out
the property and moved to her pres
ent rooms at 2l56 Stout street. With
the devotion OF a %fiancee, Bates also
moved, taking a room in the same
building.
81 can not be away from you," he
explained to Mrs. Hankla.
A week before the marriage was tc
take place, Mrs. Hankla says he in
duced her to let him have 5000, with
which he was to buy a one-thild in.
tefest in the O. X. dvertising agency
SON.
Four hundred dollars Of this
money he really did invest, accord
ing to Mrs. Hankla. With the re-
manning 5000 he went to Mitchell,
where he married Miss Boice. the
daughter Of a wealthy merchant of
that city.
1.-TWO days before he was to marry
me- said Mrs. Hankla this morn
ing, me came to me and said excit-
edly: The Jig is up He told me
previously that he had been engaged
TO Miss Roice, and that he was 60
ing back to marry her.
"'lf you do | told him, | will
follow and prevent the marriage
My threats did not prevent him
from going. Borrowing from me the
last fifteen cents | had, he kissed me
goodbye and | haven't cen him
siuce.'i
In order to calm Mrs. Hankla,
Bates sent a letter from Charter
Oak. July !. %inclosing his personal
note for the money he owes her.
Mis-. Hanlila, however, considers the
note worth nothing more than the
paper it is written upon.
y warrant tor his arrest on the
charge Of larceny as ballee has been
issued and the police authorities Of
Mitchell, Charter Oak, Pine Grove,
s. H., have been notified.
Bates brother is supposed to be in
Fort Collins. Should the much
wanted young man snow up there,
he will be taken into custody.