Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-01-15
HEIRESS AND :
WaITER FOUND
Arrested In RoOmI.,g House
In Chicago.
GIRL TELLS PATHETIC STORY
Says She Was Lonesome After the
Death u Her Mother, and 90 There
Appeared to Be Nothing But q
Boarding School For Her she Ran
Away.

Boarding School For Her She Ran
Away.
Miss Roberta De Janon, the young
Philadelphia heiress. and Frederick
Cohen. waiter. who eloped ten days
ago. we're arrested in q roomins house
In Chicago
To Captain Reihm. In charge OF the
station. the girl told pathetic story
OF lonesomeness. She said that her
mother had just died, and that her
father was living in another city.
There appeared TO be nothing for her
but boarding school Nobody seem.
ed TO understand or eympathize with
her but Cohen. a waiter. married and
forty-two years old lie was employed
in the same hotel where she lived. 81
did not see my father very often. and
on the first OF October mother and I
took apartments In the BeIlevue.Strat.
ford hotel My grandfather. Robert
BUST. was with us q great deal OF the
time On the second day OF Novem.
Der my mother died after short Ill.
ness and was almost heart broken.
cried a great deal and was very lone
some There was nothing that money
could buy that could not have. yet
was very unhappy.
"Then. TO cap the climax soon after
my mother had passed away my grand.
father said he was going to send me
to Mrs. Shipleys preparatory school
AT Bryn Mawr
"The very thought Of going to a
place OF that kind. where ] knew no
one and had no idea OF the kind Of
people would meet. made me des.
perate.
Cohen Sympathized With Her.
"Mr Cohen was n waiter In The pri.
vate dining room In the hotel where
took my meals. and TO him talked
great deal after my mother had gone.
He sympathized with me and seemed
to understand how felt. He knew
what my sorrows were. and II was only
natural that In a short time told him
everything His sympathy and kind.
ness seemed 20 relieve me a great deal
and began 20 respect him greatly.
FINALLY. when I could stand my
lonesomeness no longer. begged him
to take me away He refused at first.
even after he admitted that he loved
me. and not until had threatened 10
Kill myself would he consent Then
we made out plans"
P,ginning with their flight from
Philadelphia on Dec. 30. the girl told
how they had gone 10 New York and
spent one night there In New York
they decided TO go TO london. Eng.
land. but fearing detection n they
tried to embark IN this country. they
took train 70 Montreal Failing to
catch transatlantic steamer at Mon
treal. as they hal hoped tn do. they
travelled by rail 10 ST. Johns. NJ b..
where they boarded the steamer Cor
sican. According to the girls story.
dog "Tootsy" with her on the boat. so
they landed when they touched at
HHalIfax. ~ g. But as their combined
capital when thev started from Phila.
delphia was ONLY si4n- 1925 belonging
10 the girl and SIS TO Cohen---it is he
leved they did not have money enough
loft for their passa9a 10 England.
Passed as Father and Daughter.
From Halifax the pair went TO POS.
ton. and after STAYING there one night
hurried on to Chicago. reaching here
last Thursday morning.
I'VE passed as father and daughter
wherever we went" explained Miss De
Janon. Sometimes we gave one name
and sometimes another. but usually we
registered Ms Mr. Robert Ia Place and
daughter. %
Kills TImekeeper and Himself.