Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-26
Love and Cash
BOTH FLOWN
Alexander Quist of This City
Out $1,000, Says Il Might
Be Worse.
TO HAVE BEEN MARRIED
Fiancee, However, Gave Him Slip at
Kansas City, Taking Jeweiry
and Trinkets.

Kansas City. May 25.-Alexander
Quist. aged GO, retired farmer Of
Rock Island. H.. complained to the
police today that he had been deserted
| by Mrs Lulu Johnson, a widow aged
43, of Amarillo, Texas, his afiianced
| wife The two We're to have been mar
tried here last night.
Quist went to Amarillo last January
on real estate business. While there
he met Mrs Johnson February last
| they came here to be married. After
securing the license she concluded she
needed more time to prepare her
rousseau. She returned to Texas and
Quist to Rock Island. He says she
| took jewelry valued at $1,000. On May
| rs Quist returned to Amarillo. Mon
| day he arrived here with Mrs. John
ION. Returning to the Blossom house
after a walk, Quist found this note
from his intended bride:
Dear Ducky-I hate to write this
but I must. Time has shown me
| that We could not be happy to-
| gether, so | must leave you. Don't
say anything about this and the
folks in Amarillo will never know
| the difference Ever your loving
LULU.
| p. S.-Thanks.
| 1t was learned Mrs Johnson pur-
chased ticket for Pittsburg.
| Says lbs All True.
| That the foregoing press dispatch
sent out fro:u Kansas City last night
contains the essential facts in his 70
nance was admitted by Mr.. Quist upon
returning to Rock Island this morning
He said the amount secured from him
was somewhere between $500 and
| $1,000 in jewelry and trinkets he had
bought for his fiancee and added that
he was ready TO eXpend as much more
TO locate the woman and bring her to
justice. The police have been instruct
ed to trace her if possible
Mr.. Quist, as is stated, is retired
farmer. He formerly lived near Rev
nolds, where he had fine farm Since
MS retirement he has invested sue
cessfully in land in the south and now
owns couple of sections in the vicin-
ity of, Amarillo, having other property
in addition
| He expressed himself today rs
rather pleased that he had ESCAPED
matrimony, for, once married to him.
the woman would have had a lawful
claim to a large share of his comfort
able fortune.
Mr.. Quist is a widower with four
grown children.
Courtship Was short.
The Kansas City Journal of yester-
day in discussing Mr. Quist's shatter-
ed romance says:
Qulst, who is very wealthy, went
TO Amarillo in January on real es-
tate business. While there he met
Mrs. johnson, a handsome widow who
was more than pleased with the ILL
mons farmer. In less than a month
she had consented to marry him and
by the middle of February they had
started for Kansas City. where he
says they intended to be united aft
once.
The license, Quist says, was Sc
cured when they arrived in Kansas
City, but after due consideration
MIS-. Johnson concluded that she
needed more time to prepare her
rousseau. She therefor deemed it
advisable to return to Texas, while
her aged lover went back to Rock
Island. Before parting, however.
Quist says he gave her diamond ear
ings valued at $500, diamond ring
winch cost $500 and enough cash to
bring the bill to about S700. With