Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-14
Police Support Story That He
Protected Miss de Jan0n.
GIRLS NERVES ARE SHAKEN
She and Walters Wife Both in State
of Collapse.
MOB MET PAIR AT STATION
Clubs Used and Way Cleared by
Force-Mrs. Cohen Sees Hus-
band, After Scene.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. January a.
There is possibility that Ferdinand
Cohen. the hotel waiter will go unpun-
| ished for the part he took in the escapade
with Miss Roberta de Janon. the young
heiress.
The police today made the emphatic
statement that Cohen did not harm the
girl. The young runaway still adheres
to her story. corroborated by Cohen. that
she was alone responsible for the affair
her.
After an interview with the waiter in
his CELL his lawyer told reporters that
Cohen, under the law, had committed no
crime.
For some reason not made public, the
hearing of Cohen on a charge of kidnap.
ing, fixed for 10 o'clock in the central
police station. was postponed until
o'clock this afternoon. lie spent the night
In a cell on the fifth floor of the city
hall. No one except his lawyer was able
to see him.
The girl in the case is still in a private
apartment of hospital under the care
of nerve specialist. She is badly upset
by the events of the last few days. 1t is
likelr she will be kept in the hospital for
some days.
Mrs. Julia Cohen, the deserted wife,
who was taken to a hospital last night in
q state of nervous collapse, was better
today and left the institution.
Mob Quelled by Police.
Suddenly plunged from the quiet of
Pullman coach. in which they had trav-
eled for more than tWenty-sfx hours. with
only the partition of a drawing room
compartment separating them. into tur-
MOL Of excitement, which extraordinary
police arrangements for their reception
helped to produce, Miss de Janon and
Cohen were both seized with fear upon
their arrival from Chicago last evening.
The young heiress, her face concealed
by heavy black veil, chung to the arm
OF a detective, as she murmured. in
startled tone. What does it mean?'
while a hundred policemen. towering
above her small figure, closed i'll about
her.
Beyond the bluecoat Gordon great
crowd pressed forward in the hope Of OBJ
tanning a glimpse of the girl. The police,
becoming excited as the crowd grew rap
idly, swung clubs and used their Shout
ders freely. The spectacle OF citizens
being knocked down and dubbed caused
the girl to shrink closer to her escort as
she was quickly thrust into taAicab.
Cohen Pallid With Fright.
Cohen, the imperturbability he had
shown on the homeward trip gone, wds
pallid with fright. He covered As q
reserve policeman lifted him In after
the girl with whom he had disappeared
more than two weeks before.
The remarkable demonstration made
by the police he seemed unprepared for.
AS the door Of the taSicab was closed
upon him. the girl and two detectives
he inquired
DO you think there will be attempt
to harm me?
The police adopted unusual measures
to prevent the taxicab from being fol-
lowed and when it reached the city
hall scores Of policemen, guards and
detectives were scattered through the
corridors leading to the detective bu-
perintendent O'Leary to prevent either
Cohen or Miss de Janon being followed.
Put Through Third Degree.
Until late in the evening Cohen faced
all the rigors of the third degree" at
the hands of Capt. Gallagher and his
men at the detective bureau, while
Miss de Janon sat in Mr. O'Leary's Of
flee, closely questioned by that police
official, Mr.. Henry E. Walton. her
erandfather's counsel; surgeons. de-
tectives and others active in the case.
Mrs. Cohen, the wife Of the waiter,
was unable to see her husband even after
he was led to a cell on the sixth floor OF
the building and locked up.
Later she forced her way through the
police guard outside Of the cell, and was
so insistent in her demand to see her
husband that she was finally permitted
to do so. AS he was led from his cell
she tainted, and several minutes elapsed
before she was revived.
While Mrs. Cohen was still talking with
her husband Miss de Janon emerged with
her grandfather. Robert Buist, an aunt
and another woman from MIR. OLeary' s
office. and was whirled away with them
in a taxicab. Her face was again hidden
by a heavy black veil and her hand rest
ed upon her grandfather's arm as she
walked by his side to the waiting ma
chine.
Il still do not believe my gr-anddaugh-
ter realized the gravity. of the step she
was taking when she went away" Mr..
Buist had remarked but few minutes
before, and il was said he had no inten-
ton of altering his previous decision fully
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