Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-02
'AFF|N|T|ES IN PRISON
Wife Will Not Resign in Favor
of Soul-Mate.
PURSUES PAIR INSTEAD
Her Husband Decamped With Nine
teen-Year.Old Girl.
TRACED THEM TO WASHINGTON
Then They Disappeared-But She
Located Them Again and Puts
Law on Them.
TRACED THEM TO WASHINGTON

! NEW YORK. September o-An :'affin-
I ity'' episode involving many of the inter-
esting features of the Earle kuttner tan
! gle. with the added complication of the
wifes refusing to allow herself to be cast
| aside for her husbands new mate. has
| aroused interest in Newark and Jersey
! City. following the arrest in the latter
/ city of Frank Warren, a well-to-do young
| Newark clubman and Miss Sarah Click
ner the pretty nineteen ear-old daugh-
! ter of a Passaic hotel keeper. on a war
rant obtained by Mrs. Warren.
| Like the first Mrs. Earle. the wife in
| this case has a four-year-old child. but
unlike Mrs. Earle she has refused to &C
cede to he husbands demand that she
obtain a divorce and allow him to marry
| his "soul-mate.' On the contrary. she
has been eXerting every effort to get hold
of her husband for the last two months.
and on his first appearance in Jersey
with Miss Clickner. called the unfeeling
law to her assistance. Warren says how
/ ever. that nothing will make him give the
| girl up, and that just soon as he can
persuade his wife to divorce him. he will
marry Miss Clickner. He takes his stand
| On HlSH moral grounds. ueCldTillS tlidl III
is his duty to stand by the girl and not
| permit her to be thrown out upon an I'M
| affinitybelieving world.
Girl Sticks to Man.
The girl wholly sympathizes with War
rem. it is said. and declares she will re-
main at his side through fire, water and
even Jail. The arrangement has been
somewhat complicated, however, by the
interference of Warrens father and elder
| brother and the position assumed by
, Miss Clickner's father. Warren's father
declares that he will break up the whole
| business if he can, and Mr.. Clickner. who
| appeared in court yesterday when the
| pair were arraigned and chatted amcably
/ with Warren and his brother has also
arrived at the conclusion that it is about
| time for him to take a hand. He does
| not object to Warren for son-in-law, it
| is said. but thinks it would be better to
| wait until Warren is off with the old
| love.
| Warren's brother commented on this
phase of the case when seen at his home.
| 164 Roseville avenue, Newark. Some
! fathers would want to blow Frank S
head off" he said. "but Mr.. Click
daughter care for each other, and. under
! the circumstances. what can one do? We
have all decided that it had better stop.
and we are going to see that Frank gives
up the girl. But if his wife were sensi-
/ BILE. it seems to me she would get di-
vorce. l cannot understand her position. -
Son of Architect.
Young Warren is the son of j. B. War
| rem of Kearney. n. j., one of the most
| prominent architects in the state The
elder brother. Edward j.. is also an ,arch1-
! tect, with offices in Newark. Frank is
| two years younger than Edward, and up
| to the time of his adoption of the affinity
/ theory little over year ago. was one
| of the most popular and progressive young
business men in Newark.
He was third owner in the Groebe-Mc-
Govern Company. large printing con-
Germ in Clinton street. He was a member
| of the Union Club, the most exclusive in
| the city. and almost all the smaller social
| organizations.
June 1s. 1902. he had married Miss
| Elsie Steele, daughter of George Steele
| of % Court street. The bride was older
| than young Warren, but the pair seemed
| to live happily together and until last
July their friends saw no shadow of the
affinity clouds. July % last, however.
young Warren disappeared. and was not
| again seen in Newark, except once last
| spring when he was taken over from this
| city on a warrant based on an indictment
| found against him by the Essex county
| grand jury on a charge of abandonment.
| According to Mrs. Warrens story in
| court at that time, she learned that her
| husbad had elOped with Miss Clickner
and that they were living in this city,
| where he had bought cafe and res
| taurant at ia East 23d street She came
! here and pleaded with him to return to
her and his child, but he refused. Then
| she laid the matter before County Prose
/ cutor Mott and the indictment was found
| Warren was held in 81 600 bail, which was
given by his brother, and then disappeared
again, as far as his wife was concerned
Traced to Washington.
F, She says her detectives next found the
pair ~ a small town IN Pennsylvania, bu
| when they learned that their hiding place
HAD been discovered they decamped tc
| Washington. From there they agar
dropped out of sight for several weeks
until Mrs. Warren located them in Savan
nan. She had them arrested, she says
! but withdrew the charge when she founG
she could not bring them back TO Jer
| sey, the abandonment charge not belns
scheduled to come up until this month.
Saturday last Mrs. War:en's detective:
Informed her that her husband and hi:
affinity had come back from the SOUTH
aud registered at the Grand Hotel IL
Jersey City as 'F. F. Baker and wife
Savannah. Ca She telephoned Warren
asking that he grant her an interview
to fix up their differences. He bit a
the bait and consented to meet his WIFE
at the Pennsylvania railroad station.
They met, and she again asked him K
come back to her and the baby and give
up the girl but ne was just as tirml,
fixed as ever in the theory that he hat
found Ills real sourlate and refused
Then, Mrs Warren says. ne told her tina
ii she did not leave them alone he woult
buy revolver ana Kill himself and tn,
girl
Thereupon Mrs. Warren appealed Il
Capt. Larkins o. the Jersey City detectiv,
bureau, who doesn't think much of affin
Peace Markley. where she swore out tn.
set out to round up the pair On Ex
change place they met Warren face /,
| face.
: When Larkns laid mis- hand on the
young mans shoulder Warren made sus
! picious movements toward his hip poke t
and the detective laid him low with s
stiff uppercut on the jaw, and while he
held the captive Mrs. Warren abstracteC
.3S caliber revolver from her husband .
pocket. She is convinced that after hi.
talk with her Warren bought the pisto
and intended to carry out his threat.
Warren went to police headquarters
without protest. and Lee was ordered &c
bring the girl there too.
In a room on the second floor of the
hotel. which the clerk told was occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Baker," he found Miss
Clckner seated on one of four trunks
dressed ready for travel. The trunks
were all packed ready for departure The
girl took the matter calmly enough. only