Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-31
,RUNAWAYS ARE TOGETHER
Leave New York This Morning
With Washington Detective.
WIFE BLAMEs OTHER WOMAN
Deserted Husband and His Mother
Visit Her at Her Home and
Discuss the Case.

D. c. Edward M. Hobson and Mrs Nellie
Kyle, who left their married partners at
home to fit through few.happy hours In
New York were bound south again this
morning.
| Young Hobson. who says he is a cousin
of Richmond Pearson Hobson, went back
! in charge of a detective who hade extra
dition papers in his pocket charging the
| prisoners with embeZZlement. wife and
two children awaited him in Washington.
Mrs. Kyle. who said she loved Mr.. Hobson
and would follow him to the end, had only
a husband at the capital.
| The prisoner went back protesting that
the embezzement charge was merely a
blind. He was AS frank today as yester-
day when he volunteered the Information
that the embezzlement talk was a side
issue and that the real story was up at
1912 West 22d street. Mrs. Nellie Kyle
proved to be there, and she promptly con-
firmed her lovers statements.
my husband is Raymond Kyle. gov
eminent engraver. but l am living apart
from him." she said Nothing shall sep
arate me from Edward. however
Mrs Kyle is pretty woman and looks
about Hobson's age. which is twenty-five.
They came here last Sunday. So they
had five days of happiness. anyway, be-
fore the law rudely interfered.
Mrs. Hobson Blames Woman.
When Mrs. Hobson, wife of Edward
Hobson. was seen at her home, 1016 ID
street northeast. this morning. she said
she was aware that her husband had been
placed under arrest in New York upon
a charge of embeZzlement.
"'That woman has been the cause of all
his trouble" she said, quietly, but with
determination in every syllable. she mas
kent after him." continued the wife, until
at last he ran away with her.
Mrs HobSOn was told that MIS- hyle
gave 943 New York avenue as her ad-
dress. when in fact there is no such num-
Der. ,
..she lived at 942 New York avenue"
said the deserted wife, and more tn Eaa
once l went there after my husband. she
is one of the boldest women L nave ever
seen. Once when / went to her room
and asked for my husband she came to
the door with naughty look upon her
face and said he was not there.
Mrs Hobson then detailed that upon
several occasions her husband told her
he wanted to keep away from the hyle
woman, but she invariably met MIN as
he was going to and from his work az the
offices of the Hope Live Stock Mutual
Benefit Association on 14th street north-
"Why. my husband spent $50 in one
week upon her" said Mrs. HobSon. grow
ing a trif1e excited at one moment. She
has been the whole cause of any trouble
he may be in.
Knows Nothing of OHense.
Mrs. Hobson told how her husband left
her about two weeks ago. and since that
time she has heard nothing from him
until informed he had been placed under
arrest.
When asked if her husband was cou-
sin of Representative Hobson or Merrl-
mac fame she answered:
"Yes, he is second cousin"
She was told that it was reported that
Mrs Kyle was pretty blond. and looks
something like a composite picture OF
Sylvia Thorne and Edna May.
"Oh, no. She isn't" declared the de-
serted wife. land even Mr.. Kyle and his
mother, who have been to see me TINS
morning. cannot see why my husband ran
away with her.
Hobson has made that Mrs. Kyle and her
son had been to call. The reporter asked
what the Kyles thought about the arrest.
"Oh, t.ey are down on her." said MRS.
Hobson. For you know MRS. rye
never wanted her son to marry the Wom-
an. On one occasion she went to Phila-
delphia and broke up marriage cere-
mony which they had arranged
She told how young Kyle then returned
to Washington and shortly Thereafter
afterward married him In Alexandria, Va.
Tried to Get Away.
"She kept after my husband at all
times" said Mrs. Hobson; land once.
about one month ago, she stopped him
while he was in his buggy In l2th street:
"He whipped his horse and attempted
to drive away But the woman was
knocked down and the wheels passed over
her body. She was taken home, where
it seems Mr.. Hobson later called to see
her.
three small children played about her
knees. The eldest, about five years OF
age seemed to take lively interest in the
conversation.
Hohson informed him that she had seen
her attorney, w. w. Stewart. and that
she expected to apply for divorce at
once.
Mrs KYLE belonging to her husband. Ia
ken while the young woman was spending
some time at Chesapeake Beach several
weeks ago.
Several attempts were made to see Mrs.
KYLE and her son. Each time reporter
they had left early in the morning and it
was not known when they would return.
According to reports from New York.
Mrs. Kyle alone went to boarding house
Sunday and engaged two rooms, saying
her husband" would be along in a day or
two AS she foretold. Mr. Kyle ap-
peared upon the scene shortly thereafter.
"Mr. and Mrs. Kyle appeared happy.
it's said, until Lieuts. Mc1vor and O DON
nell of the central detective office of New
York appeared.
Hobson in Hiding.
Mrs Kyle met them at the door They
asked for Hobson. He was not there
according to the woman. But they made
q search and found a man hidden under a
he'd in an adjoining room.
After some parley the man admitted
he was Hobson and went with the de-
tectives to headquarters. There he was
later held under $500 bail by Magistrate
Corrigan to await a Washington officer
Mrs Kyle, clasping her hands over
the corsage of her pink kimono. after
the arrest declared with fervor that
nothing will separate her from Hobson
and that when he is brought to Wash
ington she will come too.
Mrs Kyle, before her marriage, was a
Miss Nellie Peck, who resided near the
Kyle family on 4th street southeast.
FOR XMAS NIGHT MURDER.