Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-07-10
ALEXANDER FLED
THE COUNTRY WITH
MRS. ELL|NGW0OD
A Fishing Stunt Terminates In
Flight From Officers and
Determined Wife.

Sioux Falls. S. D., une 29.-Keen m
terest is taken in the Developments VA
connection with the arrest at n rasv'
Tex. a few days ago OF MRS. Grace FL
lingwood, a former society Woindh VI
Utica, N. Y, and for about a year
nromInent member of the divorce col
ony in Sioux Falls, on a statutory
charge preferred by Mrs. william ..
Alexander, a Sioux Falls woman. the
affections of Who husband she is al
legged to la alienated.
Until a few months ago alexander
was an attache of a leading business
institutions of Sioux Falls. but he now
ia among the missing" Mrs. Elling-
wood now is resisting efforts on the
part of the South Dakota authorities 10"
bring her back to Sioux Fails. IL mas
developed that the warrant Tor the ar
rest Of Mrs. Ellingwood was issued the
latter part of May, while she n Alex
Under were at Rapid City, in the BLACK
Hills.
When in Sioux Falls Mrs. Ellingwood
had retained c.. H. Bartlett, OF this city,
as her attorney, but when she ahu
Alexander reached Rapid City a change
was made and Chauncey Wood, a well
known attorney of that city. was re-
tanned to secure divorces for both Alex
ander and Mrs. Ellingwood.
The woman in the case, who, by the
way, is not the rich woman she was
supposed TO be, she being simply the
~stepdaughter of a rich woman, had by
an alleged subterfuge induced the step
mother to go to Rapid City and FUR
;nish the cash for her board and attor-
ney fee. Mrs. Ellingwood, while In
Rapid City, became devoted to shing
and made trips to the creeks and other
streams of that vicinity every lay.
1t was while on these trips that she
would daily meet Alexander, who was
going under the assumed name OF Hal
in order to keep the stepmother IN lg-
norance of his presence. 1t was While-
on one Of these fishing trips that Mrs.
Ellingwood received a telegram from
Sioux Falls informing her that a war
rant had been issued for her arrest and
that an officer was about TO start from
Sioux Falls for Rapid City to arrest
her.
Then there was some lively hustling
on the part of both Mrs. Ellingwood
and Alexander. They secured a team
and drove to the little town of Her
mosa, Custer county, where Mrs. Ell
lingwood got into telephone communi-
cation with her stepmother at Rapid
City, who nae been worrying for some
hours over the mysterious disappear
ance of her daughter. She for a time.
believed her daughter Sad fallen into
a stream and been drowned.
The stepmother was induced to go to
Hermosa, where 1t is understood h
loosened her purse strings to the
amount Of 81. 900, on which money Mrs.
Elllngwood and Alexander made their
southern trip. In the meantime Chaun-
cey Wood a been instructed to go to-
the boarding places of Alexander and
Mrs. Ellingwood and secure their bag
gage, consisting of six trunks and two
suit cases.
The attorney did this and shipped the
baggage to El Paso by express, the bag
gage being directed to Alexander under
his assumed name of Hall. The bag
gage furnished the clew which enabled
| Sheriff Nelson, of this city, to trace
/ Mrs. Ellingwood to Ell Paso. where he
caused her arrest.