New-York tribune., 1910-01-14
ELOPERS At HOME
PHILADELPHIA MOB.
Wmter Gets Third Degree;
Girl Sent to Hospital.

Philadelphia, Jan. 1s-Roberta B. De-
janon Is now in a suite of private rooms
at St Agnes's Hospital in this city Fred
erick. or Ferdinand, Cohen is locked in
a cell awaiting a hearing on the charge
OF abduction, and his wife is in the Medico-
Chirurgica! Hospital suffering from a nerv-
Gus collapse.
In spite of a severe s-examinatiou, TO
which the heiress was subjected for nearly
five hours tonight, no change in her orig
inaI story was brought out.
When she saw her grandfather, Robert
Bust, the millionaire seed man. in the
office of the Assistant Superintendent of
Police. she threw her arms around his
neck and burst out crying. with her head
on his shoulder. She said she sick
and glad TO get home. but insisted that
Cohen, her companion, had done nothing
to merit any punishment. Il tried to get
him to run away before" she said to the
police.
1t was late tonight before she was taken
from City Hall and hurried to the hospital,
where rooms had already been engaged.
While Cohen was being put through the
third degree his wife made frantic but
Intellectual efforts to him She was
finally forced from the corridors in a semi
hystericaI condition. Late tonight, accom-
panied by a lawyer, she managed to get to
see her husband in the cell room OF the
Central Police Station. There was tear
full and affectionate scene She promised
to stick by her husband, who, In turn,
professed his sorrow and repentance. After
this interview Mrs. Cohen was so over
come by her emotions that it was neces-
sary 10 remove her TO a hospital
After hearing a report from the police
surgeon tonight the police said that no
charge more serious than abduction could
be substantiated against Cohen.
IMMENSE CROWD GATHERS.
Aided by a squad Of a hundred policemen.
the detectives with Miss Dejanon and
Cohen, euded the crowd gathered at the
West Philadelphia station OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad to witness their arrival
from Chicago at 5:45 o'clock this evening
When the train pulled into the station the
curious rushed into the train shed. anxious
TO see the runaway heiress and her waiter
companion.
Miss Detanon and Cohen were quickly
placed In waiting taxicabs, while the police
guard would not allow any person to leave
the building until the taxicabs had a safe
start.
Cohen was hurried to the City Hall, where
he was taken to the office of the captain
of detectives on the fifth floor Here the
severe cross-examination. which he has
been obliged TO undergo almost continuous
ly since his arrest, was continued in the
hope that he would make some damaging
admission
Later Miss Dejanon, heavily yelled, was
escorted 10 the office of the assistant su-
perintendent OF police, on the second floor
~Irr. Rlra .1Tr
questioned.
While the great jam pressed into the
West Philadelphia station to catch
glimpse Of the runaway couple, the con-
gestion at the Broad Street Station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, where 1t was
thought the prisoners would leave the
train, was even worse. There is usually a
big throng of suburbanites at the station
between the hours of and o'clock in
the evening, and tonight these commuters
were simply brushed aside by the hundreds
of curious persons bent on catching even a
passing glance of the girl and man who
have gained SUCH notoristy within two
weeks time.
THE CROWD DISAPPOINTED.
When it was learned that the courle
had been taken from the train at the West
PHILADELPHIA station a rush was made for
PoIics Headquarters, in the City Hall.
lust across the street from the Broad street
station and IL required force OF reserves
n clear the big yard. The couple had
reached the City Hall before the crowd
and were undergoing the third degree
bsfore they were in the city half an hour