Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-01-10

WIG at me peach, Nhcrc they nave been living. On Wednesday they came to the city, and were travelling about together, detective shadowing them in the background. lf Dr. Thompson was conscious of this he said nothing Co his wife.
 When the couple started up the An gels Flight, the detective could no, enter the same ear, and to keep from losing sight of them when they should arrive above, he started on up the stairway beside the incline. As the car started, Dr. Thompson jumped. Mrs. Thompson could not follow, and the detective was half way up the stairs.
 Dr. Thompson ran down the street until he came Co Broadway, when hc boarded Il Pico Heights car Tho de- tectivc was in hot pursuit, hut he could not catch the same car. and the doctor wns lost. He walked from Tropco to Burbank, where he took the late train for San Francisco.
 Runaway Is Captured.
 Mrs. Thompson lost nc time in having her husband captured. Deputy Sherin Cochran happened to be on the train going north with two prisoners. A de scrip,ion was tclcgraphed to him at Calicntc.and by the time the train reached Bakersfield he had Thompson under arrest. and was ready to turn him over to the Bakersfield authorities.
 If Dr. Thompson has the matrimon- ial record that the district attorney and shcriff E office are said to hc uncover ing, his present wife says hc has con ccalcd ii most skillfully. Since she married him Oct. 27, IoOi, she says there has been no inkling of anything covered up in his past history.
 Mrs. Thompson said:
 "Our wedding was extensively writ ten up and nm sure if there had been other wives in the country they would have heard of it and made trouble be- fore this.
 "Since have been married to Dr. Thompson l have met people who have known him for ten years back and they knew nothing of these other wives.
 .'I Made Him Trouble,"
 "J toId him if he ever tried to take any money away from me without my consent there would be trouble. That is just what happened. He said that his experiences in jail had made diff ferent man of him and was willing |, take him out an q see if it were true After he was released ] began to be licvc in him again.
 "If he married me for money h' did not show it until the time that h' attempted to extori it from me.
 From san Diego if was learned thu
 Mrs. Emily Riggs Thompson livc' there n number of years. About thre' years ago frorrem cmfwy ctaoi' years ago her former husband, Beverl, T. Riggs, died, leaving valuable es tate.
 The major portion of the cstat
 went to the widow and consisted fo the most part of valuable real estate
 One piece of property which she recei' ed from the csthtc she sold about thre [ weeks ago for $22,0O0.
 Dr. Thompson first made his appear ance in San Diego about fourtce months ago. At that time he was street fakir, and sold patent medicine on the street corners. He attracted cor
 siderable attention by wearing Ion , purple robe on all occasions. Shortl r nftcr he came to san Diego he beeam 2 acquainted with Mrs. Riggs. and the
 marriage followed after n short cour D ship. the ceremony being pcrformc r about one year ago.
 F wife Worth s250.0O0. { Mrs. Thompson is said to be wort
 $25O,OO0, and was n resident of Sa n Diego when she met Dr. Thompso n She says he has made plenty of mon' q the past year, but she does not kno Q what he has done with 1t. When sl wanted money she spent her own. f In his second escape Thompson cn p ried away with him some of his wife d jewelry, n diamond necklace, two di }. mond rings, and a watch. 1T he h'
 money it came from his own funds, c Mrs. Thompson says she had not eiv' !. him anything after releasing him fro