Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-03
WIFE DESERTER
CAUGHT IN EAST
E. NJ. RUGBY, FORMERLY OF
PASADENA. ARRESTED
Two Hundred Citizens Attend Mass
Meeting to Discuss Charter
Amendments, and oppo-
sition Prevails
Pasadena Agency,
III East Colorado street.

III East COLORADO street,
PASADENA, Feb. 2.-E. M. Rugby
who deserted his wife in this city early
in October, has been arrested by the
police of Scranton, Pa, upon tele-
graphic instructions from Chief of Po-
lice W. w. Freeman of this city, charg-
ing him with bigamy. Chief Freeman
applied this afternoon to Governor
Pardee for requisition papers, and
Rugby will be brought back to Pasa-
dena to stand trial on the charge
named.
Freeman has been working on the
case since October 3, when Rugby dis
appeared, leaving his bride here. In
this time four wives in different parts
OF the country have been found, and
the Pasadena wife swore out the war;
rant The arrest was made at the Y.
M. c. A. rooms in Scranton, where
Rugby was living under the name of
]. S. McMurray. AS here, Rugby was
singing in one of the churches and
teaching music classes in the Y. M. c.
A. rooms. While singing at a farewell
party given a member of the Scranton
Y. M G. A. who was coming to Pasa-
dena Rugby talked freely, and this
tourist casually told the local police
about the man.
kilograms were soon dispatched to
the chief of police at Scranton and
Rugby was arrested. He refused 20
come west without requisition papers
and these will be sent east at once.
Mrs. Rugby is spending the week at
Long Beach.
Discuss Charter Amendments
Two hundred citizens attended the
mass meeting at the board of trade
rooms tonight for the open discussion
of the ten proposed amendments to the
city charter, the election for which oc-
ours Saturday. G.. A. Gibbs was chosen
chairman of the meeting, with d. w.
Coolidge and DR.. M. o. Randall secre-
taries. AS each amendment was read
a vote followed the discussion, to as
certain the desire of the majority upon
the questions. While it had been an
ticipated that no opposition was gen.
eral save for the amendment relating
to the recall measure and the printing
amendment, all seemed to come under
the disfavor of those present at the
meeting, and from the first the "antis"
seemed to have control of the meeting
D. W. Herlihy, president of the board
of trade, and DR.. M. o. Randall de-
Tended the amendments in detail. ].
C. Fitzgerald headed the opposition.
Mayor Vedder and the members of the
city council were not present.
Pacific Electric Gives Transfers
The Pacific Electric company has
issued orders to conductors that Pasa-
dena transfers are to be issued to peo-
pie getting on the cars of the COM
pany at South Pasadena upon the pay
ment of a single scent fare. Instruc-
tions have also been given that con-
ductors shall accept transfers issued
in this city to all South Pasadena
points. This concession has been asked
for many times, the franchise to the
company having been granted by South
Pasadena upon the stipulation that the
fare from South Pasadena to Pasadena
should be cents, and that transfers
should be issued.
Discorporation Favored
A petition in favor of discorporatin
is being circulated in South Pasadena
and being numerously signed. The
city council is asked in the petition to
call an election to decide the matter.
While a part of the signers desire to
have the territory now known as South
Pasadena annexed to Los Angeles,
others favor Pasadena. While those
on the west and south of the district
prefer to be a part of the larger city
those on the northern border have
more interests in common with Pasa"
dena. The water and sewer problems
of the little city have forced the issue,
the citizens say.
Injured by Exploding Oil
Frederick over, the colored janitor
of the new Slavin block, carelessly at
tempted to light the oil burner under
the steam boiler soon after the burner
had gone out and while it was still
hot. The result was an explosion of
the accumulated gas, which threw the
man across the room, burning him
about the hands and face. Dr. King
attended the man and pronounced the
burns of the second degree, which will
not require skin grating as was at
first thought necessary. over was
taken to his home on Pasadena avenue,
where he is comfortable today The
force of the explosion shook the build
ing and pedestrians in the vicinity
thought there was an earthquake.
In Honor of Abraham Lincoln
The new Century club of this city
has made plans for commemorative
meeting appropriately to celebrate the
birthday of Abraham Lincoln The
event will occur at the First Baptist
church Monday evening. February 1S,
and the general public is invited
Judge Waldo M. York. Jacob B.