The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-27
Logansport Official Is Making
Every Effort to Capture
Former Local Man to An
sWer Bigamy Charge.
MOTHER-IN-LAW OF
ADAMS ASSISTS HIM
Parent of the Mans Alleged
Second Wife, Who Is Now
Dead, Has Lost All of Her
Affection for Him.

Logansport, Ind, Nov. 27-Where is
Frank r. Adams. the alleged bigam-
list? is the question the Cass county
authorities have wrestled with in
vain. 1t was reported recently that
he was in hiding at Chattanooga.
Tenn. but search there failed to
find him.
Adams, up to the time Of his disap-
pearance, made his headquarters in
Richmond.
There is warrant out for the ar
rest of Adams. 1t was issued on an
affidavit made by Mrs. Robert Roda-
baugh, of this city, mother of Mrs.
Lizzie Adams, who committed suicide
in the Pasadena flats in Indianapolis,
several months ago. Personally, on
August 81, she appeared before George
A. Custer Cass county prosecutor,
and formally filed charges of bigamy
against her supposed son-in-law, and
Custer Immediately had a warrant is
sued for Adams's arrest
Mrs. RodabAueh Now Convinced.
Mrs. Rodabaugh is now fully con-
vinced that when Adams married her
daughter. Lizzie Wooster. in this city.
March Is. 1904. he was already mar
ried and the documentary evidence
which Prosecutor Custer received
from Boston, Mass, and which was
shown her, inclines her to believe that
the Delaware, O.. woman is his true
wife.
For weeks. following the suicide of
her daughter and the exposure of Ad-
ams's alleged dual life, Mrs. Rhoda-
baugh positively refused to believe
that Adams was bigamist. Despite
the mass of evidence found by the
newspapers, tending to show that Ad-
ans had a wife in Delaware. o.. at
the time he married her daughter, the
mothers faith was, apparently, un-
shaken. When interviewed by a cor
respondent, Mrs. Rodabaugh dramati-
cally exclaimed:
I'm just as positive that Frank Ad-
ans Is my son-in-law as am that my
dead daughter is in heaven"
1t may have been that she dreaded
the notoriety, or it may have been
in her mind, that caused her to refuse
the correspondent permission to take
a picture of the enlarged portrait of
Adams, which hung on a wall in the
sitting room.
Brings About Arrest.
Since then Mrs. Rodabaugh has ex.
perienced a decided change. She is
now convinced that she and her
daughter were duped and she Is anx-
ious to see Adams in the tolls of the
law. She is SO anxious that, according
to the prosecutor. she has continued
q correspondence with him since fill
.ing the affidavit. In her letters. how
ever, she addressed him as my dear
son" and signed herself "Your loving
mother" This was done because she
did not wish him to know she had
changed her feelings toward him.
By no word or sign has she given
him the least hint of her change of
sentiment, and in her letters she
spoke OF their great loss" and sympa-
thized with him. Her letters were of
o very loving nature, and in return
she received letters from Adams,
which were written in the same vein.
In them he assured her that there
Is no truth in the stories regarding
him: he denied that he had a wife in
Delaware. O.. and he professed undy-
ing love for Lizzie. her daughter. His
letters were voluble and were filled
with sympathy for the mother and
oil
tirely to his dead wife.
Kept Up Correspondence.
Mrs. Rodabaugh, under the direc-
tion Of the prosecutor, kept up the
correspondence, and so allayed any
suspicion of trickery which Adams
might have that a clew was obtained
as to his whereabouts. The letters
which had heretofore been received
by the mother were mailed from diff
Serent cities. Adams might have been
Geceiving the mother in his express
sions of sympathy for her and in talk
ing about his dead wife. but he never
for an instant suspected that he was
being double crossed" The last let
ters received by Mrs. Rodabaugh from
<AuoAAS wSAC PoSlu0A ncu LAY tOAs ",
but in them Adams informed Mrs. Ro-
dabaugh that he was travelling in Eu-
rope and that he sent the letters to
Dayton to be mailed by q friend. with
the view of keeping his whereabouts
secret.
He was located In Chattanooga,
Tenn. his old home. and Custer i'm
mefliately applied to Governor Marsh.
all for requisition papers. This was
early in September. Delay was ex-