The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-07-02
ALEXANDER FLED
THE COUNTRY WITH
MRS. ELLINGW00D
A Fishing Stunt Terminates in
Flight From officers and
Determined Wife.

Sioux Falls, S. D., June 29.-keen IN
terest is taken in the developments in
connection with the arrest at El Paso,
TEX, a few days g of Mrs. Grace FL.
1ingwood, a former society woman or
Utica. N. Y, and for about a year a
prominent emb of the divorce COL
ony in Sioux Falls, on a statutory
charge preferred by Mrs. William J.
Alexander, a Sioux Falls woman, the
affections of whose husband she is al
legged to have alienated.
Until d few months g Alexander
was an attache of a leading business
institutions of Sioux Falls. but he now
is among the missing Mrs. Filing
wood now is resisting efforts on the
part of the South Dakota authorities to
bring her back to Sioux Fails. 1t has
developed that the warrant for he ar
rest Of Mrs. Elltngwood was ISSUED the
latter part of May, while she n Alex
ander We're at Rapid City, in the Black
Hills.
When in Sioux Falls Mrs. Elingwood
had retained c.. H. Bartlett, of this city,
as her attorney, but when she and
Alexander reached Rapid City a change
was made and Chauncey Wood, a we'll
known attorney of that city, was re-
tained to secure divorces for both Alex
ander n 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 m had by
an alleged subterfuge induced the step
mother to go to Rapid City and fur
nish the cash for her board N attor-
ney fee. Mrs. E~llingwood, While in
Rapid City, became devoted to fishing
and made trips to the creeks and other
streams of that vicinity every day.
1t was while on these trips that she
would daily meet Alexander, who was
going under the assumed name of Hall
n yN0n 4 n -lZ1n ~ ho 4 ~ W. ~, IN
of his presence. 1t was While
on one Of these fishing trips that Mrs.
E~llfngwood received a telegram from
Sioux Falls informing her hat 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 commune
cation with her ~stepmother at Rapid
City, who had been worrying for some
hours over the mysterious disappear
ance of her daughter. She for a time
believed her daughter lad fallen into
a stream and been drowned.
The s~tepmother was induced to go to
Hermosa. where it is understood she
loosened her purse strings to the
moun of $1,000, on which money Mrs.
Ellingwood and Alexander made their
southern trip. In the meantime Chaun-
cey Wood had 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 Ell Paso by express. the bag
age 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.