Weekly journal-miner., 1909-08-25

Tucson has the latest sensation in which a flashing young nurse, de, crepit old mining man and $60,OOO ill cash are the principals. The Tucson Citizen has the following graphic ac- count of the sensation:
 Legally charged with the serious crime of Kidnapping aged John Sean Ian. noted mining man of this section of country. pretty, vivacious and ven turous Marion Malarky is today the object of search that affects nearly every officer of the law between this point and the Mexican border, which, it is believed here, she is attempting to cross in order to evade her pur- suers.
 Miss Malarky is buxom, extremely attractive-at least to John Seanlon- and .twenty-four. Scanlan is decrepit, palsied, alleged to be mentally inca pablo and sixty-fve Miss Malarky is a trained nurse and poor, John Sean Ian is a mining man and worth $6O,OO0 or more.
 That is. John Scanlan would have been worth it if he had not met Miss Malarky, and he will be worth it If the present criminal and civil pro ceedings instituted in his behalf are sustained by the courts.
 Otherwise, it is said, John Scanlan may be a pauper.
 The story of John Seanlan and his alleged affaire d amour with the pret- ty nurse possesses all those details which go into the making of the most successful dramas on the American stage-or, as for that matter, on the French stage, where sensations are not sensations unless of the most bi- zarre order. Perhaps, like most sen sations in real life, all of the facts will never be made known to the outer world, but enough of them are known, it is claimed, to satisfy the most nor bid demands of the average American.
 Just when and how John Scanlan, who, as has already been stated, has long been a conspicuous figure in min ing circles in this portion of Arizona, met Miss Malarky is not known to the general public. Just what sort of an attachment sprang up between them, and how it originated is also an unknown quantity. The feature of it all is that the attachment apparent ly exists-at least on the part of John Seanlan.
 But Scanlan's friends are endeav- oring to solve the problem, and they have offered a number of possible ex- plantations. That most commonly ae- eepted is that the young nurse has acquired something in the nature of a hypnotic influence over the aged mining man, and is using it for sell fish ends. This, however, will in all probability be determined in the Pima county courts, for it seems unlikely that Miss Malarky can escape the wig ilance of the Arizona officers who have been placed on the trail of the fleeing party.
 Scanlan, it is stated, fell from horse he was riding over the noun tains about a year ago. He was found some two hours later in an uncOn- scious and precarious condition. It is claimed that he never completely re- covered his mental equilibrium after that injury. Besides this, it is claimed that he took to hard drinking, which served to further impair his mental faculties, in the course of tipe.
 It was at the time of his injury that he met the pretty nurse who figures as the woman in the case. An attachment is said to have sprang up between them. It is not known that Scanlan and the woman ever claimed to be engaged to marry. But it IS claimed that as a result of his attach ment for the nurse Scanlan agreed to transfer to her all his worldly pos sessions, including real and personal property, and all that he should come into possession of during the remain der of his natural life, provided that she would support him and care for him in his declining days. An agree ment to this effect was entered into in writing. The woman is said to have then secured possession of all of Scanlan's property.
 Judge Cooper, Scanlan's attorney in the matter, yesterday instituted civil proceedings against the woman, ask ing for mandatory injunction from the court restraining her from dispos-