The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-12-11
Fullerton Comes From Seattle
to Answer for Alleged
Theft of Coed"
BAFFLED DETECTIVES.
Resisted Requisition and Won,
Even After He Had Been
Kidnapped.

Robert w. Fullerton. son Of S. n, Full
lerton, millionaire mmberman OF ST.
Louis, whose elopement after his grad
nation from Cornell with Miss Gladys
lIobard, pretty "co-ed,' started n
series of lively adventures IN which de-
tectives from District-Attorney Je-
romes office played leading parts. sur
prised Detective Fitzsimmons this
morning by walking into the Criminal
Courts Building and giving himself up
Young Fullerton is charged with alb
auction. and Detective Fitzsimmons
with his partner, Fogarty, had an ad-
yenturous time some months ago when
they went to Seattle to bring him back
Don't you know me?" asked Fuller
ton as the detective gasped on seeing
the Young man stroll into the District
Attorney. office. Don't you remember
tho uyely little time We had In Seattle
and Frisco"
Held In 1000 Bail.
Fullerton is good looking. perhaps
twenty-eight years old, and well dressed.
With him was his counsel, r. Berry,
and two representatives OF the United
States Fidelity Company. who provided
the 5000 bail District Attorney Jerome
required. Then the young man was re-
leased after he had been arraigned be-
fore Justice Rosalsky.
uilerton was graduated from Cornell
in 1901, and in his class was pretty Miss
Hobard, WHO lived with her parents in
Workers Their attachment began dur
ing their college days, and when the
elder Fullerton sent his son West to
visit his many lumber mills. they cor
responded. Then the son was ordered
by his father to South America on n
lumber buying trip, and Miss Hobard
agreed TO go with him
She says he promised to marry her at
the first port. II she would accompany
him on the steamship Trent, and she
consented They touched at Jamaica
and went to hotel where, the girl
claims, he deserted her. leaving her
without money IN a place whore she had
not a friend. She wrote 10 her father
and money was sent for her passage
home. For more than 4 month she was
so III that doctors said she would not
recover, but she did and since has been
teaching school.
Father Called II BIackmaiI.
In the mean time Robert Fullerton
had been placed in charge Of the office
OF the Chicago Lumber and Coal Com
pany, his fathers concern. in Seattle.
and was making a success as business
man. 1t was on the advice of Judge
Joseph IL. Beail, OF Yonkers. that the
parents of Miss Hobard decided to lay
the matter before District
jerome.
As a result, the Grand Jury filed an
charging abduction against
young Fullerton, and Detectives Fitz-
simmons and Fogarty went to Seattle TO
arrest him. The elder Fullerton at this
time made a statement in which lie said
the case was simply one OF blackmail.
In Seattle the detectives met net
work of legal techncalities, and young
Fullerton laughed at them when they
tried to arrest him. The Governor of
IIughes's warrant.
Finally, by a ruse. the detectives en-
ticed young Fullerton aboard ship
bound for san Francisco and practI-
however. their troubles began afresh.
Their prisoner was taken from them
by a. writ of habeas corpus and they
were threatened with Indictment, inn
and all sorts of calamity, so
they returned to New York.
Neither Fullerton nor his lawyer
would say why the young man gave
himself up to-day. There was a rumor
bout the building that Fullerton had
married Miss Hobard.
81 won't discuss the matter at ALL"
Fullerton said when asked II this were
true, and his lawyer made the same
reply
district Attorney Jerome said he did
not believe there had been a marriage.
The last heard of Miss Hobard she was
living with her parents at No, % Haw-
ley Terrace. Yonkers.