The sun., 1907-12-16
ELOPED WITH CHGNCERY WARD
JOHN HENRY PARROTT ARRESTED
HERE AS AN EMBEZZLER.

Grace LAwrcmce. VINO Came with Hlm Oy
the LucaniA, Likely 60 Be sent Back
TO the Lord ChanceIIOr's Mercies Man
says Charge Against Him ls Untrue.
John Henry Parrott who says that he ID
an English engineer and that he has taken
q special course at Cambridge, arrived yea
tertiay aboard the Cunarder Lucania with q
comely young woman. Miss Grace Lawrence
Of % BrOmpton road. London. with whom
he has been in love. he says, since last June,
when ne took her out in an automobile after
a chance meeting at Margate The pair
occupied the same stRterOom and came under
assumed names as man and wife. At Quar-
antine United States Deputy Marshal Roberts
boarded the Lucania and told PARROT that
he was wanted In London for embezzlment.
The young woman. who had been talking to
her lover when the deputy marshal called him
aside. was much distressed when she learned
that he would probably be looked mp.
Parrott begged to differ with the deputy
marshal as to the charge that had been made
against him through the English Foreign
Office He said it was not embezzlement,
but an attempt to defraud. and that he was
not guilty: also that he had in a London
bank a large enough account to pay the
amount it was alleged that he had attempted
to take He said tho affair hinged on the
sale OF an automobile. He had been selling
for owners and dealers for some time and
not long ago he sold for Andrew Fletcher,
a Scotch autOmobilist, a car for which he
received $3.50. He says that the con-
tract did not call for the delivery Of the
money to Mr.. Fletcher until January ~,
and that hie arrest here Is due in part to
the fact that he did not turn over the money
Immediately after getting it.
Another and more important reason for
his detention. he declares. in that some OF
the relatives Of Miss Lawrence. who is a
ward in Chancery. have determined to
make trouble for him. Eloping with a
ward In chancery IS = serious thing in Eng
land. though hardly eXtraditable. In fact
II Parrott should be eXtradited for the go
called embezzlement he would still be safe
from the offended Lord Chancellor for the
treaty does not allow Of extraditinE q man
for one offence and furnishing him for an
other. Still the immigration authorities
might send him back.
Parrott, who is 2S years old. says
that he could not do otherwise than
elope since he and the young woman,
who he AYERS ia more than IL and not II.
~ her relatives assert, we're very much
in love with each other and felt that they
could not wait any longer before marrying
That. he says. is the reason they eloped,
and not because he wanted TO swindle any
body. Miss Lawrence's mother. who is
a widow, has an income of $1,000 q year
and the daughter when her estate gets out
OF chAncery will be rich. Parrott says he
saw the young woman nearly every other
day after their first meeting at Margate
when she hoped into his automobile at his
earnest invitation and went for a long ride
He was often a guest at her mothers house
and it was an understood thing that at the
end of two years he and the girl should he
married. But they decided a few weeks
before they ran away from London that
two years was too long to wait
Before leaving the ship for the Tombs
in charge Of the deputy marshal Parrott
and Miss Lawrence had a fearful good-by.
Parrott told the young woman that II he was
permitted to he would marry her to-day.
The young woman was locked in her room
on the ship and guarded by a stewardess
so that no one could talk to her. She said
she was willing to return to England
Whether or not she was willing. she prob
ably would be compelled TO do 40. as the
immigration authorities have something
20 say on the subject Of desirable aliens
whether they come in first cabin or steerage
II is apparent that Miss Lawrence and her
lover intended to Hrt married when they
landed here. and they seemed to think that
they had escaped detection merely 10y COM
ing under assumed names The girl will be
taken 10 Ellis Island and doubtless will he
ordered deported
Fellow vOyagers Of Parrot say that he
. played bridge whist most Of the way across
! when he was not with Miss awrence and
that he lost heavily. He had little money
with him when he was searched At the
Tonlbs. and confessed that he had nothing
OF much value in the little baggage ne got
together hurriedly on his fight from Eng
lan1. He says that there was a gang Oi
professional gamblers aboard the Lucanis
and that they we're responsible for his LOSSES
at whist. which ne intimated amounted I,
more than a thousand dollars. Parrot
. says that Miss Lawrence comes Of a goOc
family and that her father was a man o.
prominence in London.
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