Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-03
THREATENED BY A MOB
FLoPING PASTOR AND GIRL TER
RIFIED ON RETURN HOME.
Crowd of Nearly 1000 Hoot and Jeer
Them Upon Their Arrival at
Depot in New Jersey.

4 dispatch from New Brunswick, n. j.,
last night says: Amid boots and jeers from
a mob of women and men, the Rev. j. f.
Cordova and his runaway companion, Julia
Bovine, We're escorted from a train to the
Jail in New Brunswick yesterday after
noon. It took the entire police force of the
little city to hold back the gi ) ana
women who wanted to hiss and even hit
the couple.
There were shouts of Lynch him. Lynch
him." as the little clergyman shrank cow
ering through the press on the station plat
form. He covered still more when he
caught a glimpse of Miss Bownes sturdy
father.
When the carriages started for the court
house, only three blocks away, the mob
started on the run after them, and when
they were held back at the court house
door the curious angry women tore the
shutters from the court house windows in
order to witness the scene within.
Not Romantic in Looks.
Cordova and Miss Bovine, tired and I'M
tidy from their night in the lookup at
Washington, d. c., did not look like a ro-
mantle couple when they appeared before
Justice Sedan last night in his office at the
New Brunswick court house. Cordova. who
is only five feet high, crouched in his seat
muttering that he had sent his wife money.
But after few formal questions by the
justice he was committed to jail in $1,000
bail. while Miss Bovine was held in 500 bail
witness.
The minister looked thin and haggard
The collar of his brown overcoat was shiny
and his linen was soiled. His hand trem-
bled as he stroked the struggling black hair
which relieved him from complete badness.
When the Bovine girl took her place in
the justice room Cordova pressed his hand
over hers and tried to comfort her. gray
felt hat covered her dark hair. She wore
a light macintosh, and cheap gray dress
accumulated the pallor of her face. The
pair were apparently crushed.
Scared by Mob's Clamor.
There was no charge against the girl
when Cordova was arrested in Washington,
but she refused to forsake him. and return
ed of her own volition. After her arrest as
the train neared the New Brunswick sta
ton, the clamor of the crowd reached the
ears of Cordova and the girl. They ex-
changed glances Of alarm. The trolley cars
from South River had been packed late in
the afternoon with townspeople coming to
New Brunswick. The girls father had been
advised not to take part in the demonstra-
ton at the station.
The bigamy charge was not mentioned in
court though 1t was freely said that De-
tective Sergeant Allen of headquarters New
YORK. VINO was present at the hearing had
Il warrant In his pocket for the minister
on serious charge, and that he would ar
rest him had he secured ball But the min
lister spent the night among Intoxicated
men and petty Offenders in the county jail.
Father Balls the Girl.
Shortly after o'clock Mr.. BOVINE came
in from South River and balled his daugh-
ter out. She then went home with him.
The ut eto
most dramatic that has ever been Witness
ed in the little Jersey town. Two hundred
or more of the women and girl friends of
the couple had come in from South River
to see the pair arrive. These were Joined
by twelve or fourteen hundred women and
men from New Brunswick. The majority
OF the crowd were pretty girls, whose
rudy cheeks and sparkling eyes told of