Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14

may not be brought here Immediately
but taken in charge by personal friends
and kept in seclusion. This matter also
will be determined at a conference later
i'm the day. 1t is possible that information
in this point will be withheld here and
the girl taken from Chicago secretly in
order to save her further annoyance and
suffering.
Nothing had been heard from the father
of the girl since her discovery. Mr. de
Janon is in New York.
CHICAGO. JAM u.-Living as father
and daughter, Roberta Buist de Janon,
the 17-year-old Philadelphia heiress, and
FREDERICK Cohen, waiter at the Bellevue
Stratford hotel, who eloped December %
from Philadelphia, and for whom
worldwide search was instituted, were
found and arrested here late yesterday,
They were discovered by detectives In
a rooming house at 6S West Superior
street, on the north side of the city.
When policemen entered the house, Miss
de Janon was playing with her pet dog.
which she took with ner In her sensa-
tional disappearance with Cohen, who is
46 years old, and a married man. Cohen
was seated in an adjoining room. reading.
PLEADS. WITH POLICE.
At the Chicago avenue police station
Cohen admitted his identity, and Miss de
Janon, sobbing bitterly, pleaded with the
authorities to restore her to her parents.
Cohen revealed to the officers the story
of his flight with the girl from Phila-
delphia, fight extending for thousands
of miles through the United States and
Canada, and in which a trip to England
was interrupted at Halifax because the
steamship officials would not permit the
presence of Miss de Janon's pet dog on
the vessel
At least that was Cohen's explanation
of the abandonment of the sea voyage,
which began at ST. John, New Bruins
wick, but the police believe he planned to
leave the boat at Halifax in order to
elude detectives.
Cohen and Miss de Janon arrived here
Thursday and rented a room in a board
ing house owned by Mrs. Frank Perrin.
Cohen introduced the girl as his daughter,
Alice. He identified himself as Robert
King, and said he was barber and he
had just arrived from Montreal in search
of work.
PAWNED HER TRINKETS.
The girl. when questioned by the Of
ficers at the police station after she had
admitted her identity, stated that she
and Cohen had reached Chicago with but
s160 between them, and that she gave
Cohen a bracelet and necklace, which
he pawned in order to procure money to
live on.
Their apprehension followed a report
to the police in the afternoon by Mrs.
Perrin, who had seen pictures of the
clipping pair in the newspapers, and sus-
pected that her new boarders were the
missing Philadelphia clippers.
Cohen outlined to the police the route
taken in the effort to evade capture He
said they went from Philadelphia to New
York city December 20. After remaining
in New York only a few hours they
boarded a train for Montreal In Mon
treaf they took train for St John, New
Brunswick, where they embarked for
England. At Halifax they abandoned
the sea voyage and returned to Boston by
rail. From Boston they came to Chica-
go, convinced that no one had any idea
of their whereabouts.
CHICAGO. Jan. u.-Among the CORE
spondence of Roberta de Janon and
Cohen. found in the elopers rooms, was
the following, written on the face of an
envelope, no date:
ITO my sweetheart papa, from his
sweetheart daughter.
Il wish / could have a little talk with
you tonight. as l am feeling terribly sad,
but guess we will have to wait until to-
morrow.
IF 1t is a nice day and if papa is not
ready to take tootsie down about 10:45, I
will try to come down, but if find that's
impossible. don't ge angry.
Good night, dear"