East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
H0BS0N KISSES
LURE WIFE AWAY
BOTH MARRIED, THEY
FRANKLY ACKNOWLEDGE.
Young Man Claiming to Be Cousin
of Merlmac Hero Elopes from
Washington with. sympathetic Wo-
mantle Is Arrested In New York
for embeZZlement.

Edward M. HObson, who says he is
a cousin of Congressman Richmond
Pearson Hobson OF Alabama, seems
to have the kissing habit, too, says
the New York World
Mr. Hobsons osculatory affinity, II
appears, is Mrs. Nellie Kyle, a very
pretty young blonde--it does not flat
ter her to say she looks like COM
poslt picture of Sylvia Thorne and
Edna May
Unluckily Mrs. Kyle has a hus-
band In Washington, Raymond Kyle,
an engraver in government employ;
and Hobson, a clean cut well dress
ed fellow Of 23 years, has wife and
two children.
These obstacles both Mrs Kyle and
Hobson frankly acknowledged yester-
day stand in the way OF their perfect
happiness. Nevertheless, Mrs. Kyle,
clasping her hands over the corsage
of her pink komono, exclaimed with
fervor last night:
Nothing shall separate me from
Mr. Hobson. II he is dragged back
10 Washington, I shall go too
Happy Until SIeuths Came.
In fact, Mrs. Kyle seemed COM
pletely Hobsonized
Mrs. Kyle-alone-wen TO a
boarding house, No. 312 West Twen-
ty-second street. on Sunday, and en-
gagged two rooms saying her hus-
band, Mr.. Kyle, would be along in a
day or two. And, as she foretold,
soon appeared Hobson. who lives at
No. 2414 G street. and who has been
the Washington agent of the New
York Horse Insurance company.
whose New York office is at No. 10
West Twenty-fourth street
Mr.. and Mrs. Kyle" appeared to
be very happy indeed until early yes
terday morning Then rudely intrud-
ed on them Lieut.. Stlnson McIvor
and Connie O'Donnell OF the central
office.
Mrs Kyle met the detectives at the
door OF her room and vigorously pro-
tested that she was alone. But Nc
Iyor and O'Donnell found a man hid
den under the bed IN an adjoining
room. surely an inglorlous position
for a kinsman Of him who sunk the
Merrimac In the mouth of Santlago's
harbor.
After some parley the man admit
ted that he was Hobson, not Kyle.
The detectives told him that Chief
of Police Sylvester OF Washington
had wired he was wanted" on a
charge of embezzlement and that he
must go to police headquarters.
Trumped-up Charge, lie Says.
on the way TO police headquarters
Hobson, rather agitated. talked about
another man being in much deeper
trouble than he was in Washington.
Later Hobson was arraigned before
Magistrate Corrlgan in the Tombs
court charged with embeZzlement,
the brief affidavit being attached to
Chief Sylvestcr's telegram 1t did not
develop what the chdrge is nor who
makes It, nor did Hobson make any
statement to the court, but having
changed his tune about the other
man in Washington. he said to the
newspaper men:
"They don't want me for embez-
element in Washington nor any place
else. The charge is only trumped
up to get me back to Washington.
am sorry 10 say that | ran away from
there with n beautiful woman. She
is married and so am I, but"-rwith
a sigh-"we could not help 1t. Some
people we left behind want to prose-
cute me, that's all The lovely wo-
man with whom l eloped is here in
New York. I'm sorry for her"
Magistrate Corrlgan held Hobson in
$500 bail to await a requisition from
Washington, and he was taken to
police headquarters
Mrs. Kyle was not in court She
willingly received a World reporter
at the boarding house last evening,
He had asked for Mrs. Hobson."
Serious Affair, Says Woman.
81 wish It understood distinctly
that / am not Mrs Hobson," she
said with emphasis. II am Mrs.
Kyle, Mrs, Raymond Kyle, I have a
husband in Washington, but l have
been separated from him for several
months" III
"And Mr. Hobson is married?"
asked her visitor.
"Yes," she said intensely.
"Who brought this charge against
him?"
"Any charge of embezlement is alb
surd" returned Mrs. Kyle, "And any
charge against acknowledgement Mr..
Hobson-has been instituted by Mrs.
Hobson"-this most scornfully.
"I wist to say" Mrs. Kyle contin-
ued on her own initiative, that I am
intensely indignant with a reporter
who writes falsely that I seem to be
distressed only because my lark has
been disturbed This is not a
lark" she exclaimed, claspng her
slender hands; "this is the most SER
ious, the most momentous affair of