The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-11
SHE AND HER LOVER WAITER ARE CAPTURED IN CHICAGO
 AT A BOARDING HOUSE.
Had Contemplated Suicide if She Was Captured-Says That She Was
 Treated Honorably by
 Waiter at All Times.

Chicago, Jan. 10.-Living as. father and daughter, Roberta Buist De Jan. cn. the 17-year-old Philadelphia heir ess, and Frederico Cohen, waiter at the Belleyiew Stratford Hotel, who eloped December 29 from Philadelphia and for whom a worldwide search was instituted. were found and arrest. ed here late today.
 They were discovered by detectives in a rooming house at 6S West Super for 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 her in her sensational ,disappearanc with Cohen. who is 43 years old and a married man. Cohen was seated in an adjoining room reading.
 At the Chicago Avenue police sta tion Cohen admitted his identity and Miss De Janon sobbingly pleaded with the authorities to restore her to her parents.
 Cohen and Miss De Janon arrived here Thursday and rented a room in a boarding house owned by Mrs. Frank Pedrin.
 Cohen introduced the girl as his daughter, Alice. He identified him. self as Robert King, said he was a barber and that he had just arrived | from Montreal in search of work The girl, when question by the of icers at the police station after she had admitted her identity, stated that she and Cohen had reached Chicago with brt s1.60 and that she gave Co hen pracelet and necklace, which he pawned in order to procure money to live on.
 Their apprehension followed a re- por to the police in the afternoon by ] Mrs. Perrin who had seen pictures of the eloping pair in the newspapers and suspected that her new boarders were the missing Philadelphia elop- CTS.
 Cohen is tonight locked tip at the Chicago avenue station, where he stat ed that he would waive extradition proceedings and the police were noti- led to come to Chicago for their pris- oner.
 Miss De Janon and her dos were taken to the womans department of the Harrison street police station
 Cohen outlined to the police the route taken in the effort to evade cap ture.
 I He said they went from Philadel- phia to New York city December 2. After remaining in New York only a few hours, they boarded a train for Montreal. In Montreal they took a train for St John, N. B., where they embarked for England At Halifsx | they abandoned the sea voyage and returned to Boston by rail. From Boston they came to Chicago convinc. ed that no one had any idea of their whereabouts.
 In the possession of Miss De Janon the police found several letters, some addressed to her parents and one written to her by Cohen, dated De cember IA. in which the waiter beg ged the girl to think twice before eloping with him. In this letter he says:
 My Dear Robert: After thinking the matter over thoroughly. came to the conclusion that, having noth. ing but your welfare and future hap. piness in mind. to show you really the first time since I have known you, how honest my love Is for you, by advising you not to take the step
 which you will later regret. and which
 will disgrace you and make you un, happy in the future.
 "Yon know that I love you as tnever loved a woman before-M Miqher