The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-14
WIFE AND.CH|LD
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Little Woman Follows.
Husband Here Only
to Be Left. L.y; It.
YOUNG LADY4IS
OSMlSSING.
Believed Miss Mary Bradley Has
Gone to Visit Relatives in
fredericksburg Was
Seen in a Carriage
With Dea- D[7'eeaa:
ton.

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Thc way Of Dan Cupid is Il devious
path. and Detectives NlacMnlon and
Wiltshire are once more lip against the
tough proposition OF trying to .'nravel li'A
tie tangled web Of love that two tran
sient residents Of this city have fallen
into. S9 ii
The entire end OF North Seventeenth
street and a large portion OF Church IN
we're all agog yesterday with the excite
ment of the sensational disappearance OF
Bethel Claude Dcaton,6 married man. man.
with wife and one child living In this
city, and simultaneously that OF MISS
Mary Bradley, a youthful blonde, residing t 9
With Mrs. J. r. Baker, at No. 72S North
rwonty- NTH street. with whom she
boarded since coming here from her ma ma
tive county OF spotsylvania.
sThc French leave Of Deaton Is qu.te
sensational owing to the destitute l a;lo ~
asorrowful circumstances ~. "nlch ~.
husband left his wife. VINO IS az pressn'
at the boarding house OF NJ rs. 1u.a f,ee- .,.,s
man. 1908 North Buchanan street VII. -.
out cent of money or#sany prospec. =.
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IL also missing. was a wellknown young
tiady OF the Hill, having made q great
number OF friends during the three year.
In which she has boarded with Mrs.
Baker. a!55
friends OF Deaton were III the dark
4as 4to his >intentions up til last Saturday
afternoon when pretty Miss MARY tll. lel.
her boarding place in the company OF
5Deaton, with the ex xpressed purpose d of
paying a visit TO her sister. Mrs. l1uther
oliver, who lives at 9l3 y hanover. Strel'r tr'sr
in Fredericksburg. They we're seen 70 g
Rgether driving ofr sFf rom FIJI Chesa peake
and Ohio denot q 81 tlen tbt'r1g
has been heard here of sether OF them!
Friends declare that Miss Bra dley thought
Deaton was single. and that he had never
& to their knowledge told her that he was
otherwise fixed in life. 8
Some Outstanding Debts.
IL Besides "a wife,t}who arouses ones SYM
%pathy&becatlse sofs her poverty-str'cken
condition and her twenty-one months old
infant, Deaton shook the dust or Rlch.
smont or his slippers with a couple OF
rather large debts In his Footsteps TO
Mrs. Freeman he owed s33 for board. and
on the day preceding his departure ne
touched the generosity Of fellow board
er named kasper Hardin for an addl-
tional twenty dollars. Hardin's Bro
William. who boards at the same place
with Mrs. Freeman, saw the pair In the
cab at the depot, and. on informing his
brother of the fact, the latter realized
the precarous state OF the score of gool
old green backs, and reported the matter
to the police at the First Station. De-
tective MacAIahon was on hand Int tho
tective McMahon was on hand at the
time, and together with Detective Wilt
shire, he will talk the matter over with
both Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Deaton this
morning in the City Hall at o'clock.
Detectives at Work.
Mrs. Baker stated to a reporter for
The Times Dispatch that Miss Bradley
had been unwell for some time, and
had decided on q trip to her sisters to
lrecuperate, ms she had been doing off
and on during the past three years. Her
health was very delicate, and her reso-
luton to take the trip had nothing re-
markable In 1t for those who knew her
best. It Is not known what clues the
detectives Will so to work on, If Mrs.
Deaton agrees to swear out a. warrant for
desertlon. There are several places that
might have been the purposed destina-
tion of the man, and he was heard to
remark often that he wanted to go to
Norfolk to get work. 1t is also pos
sible that he went to the far West to
Idaho, where he had several unclcs and
aunts, and where he had spent two years
prior to his marriage to Mrs. Deaton.
The latter seemed to think that her hus-
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