The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-16
 WOMAN EL0PES
 WITH BURGLAR
Leaves Fine Home in Colchester Taking Two of Her Child
 ren With Her
HUSBAND IN LEGISLATURE
Arrested in Company With AL
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Philadelphia, Nov. 16-Trapped in a boarding-house, where she had fled with a suspected burglar, and two of her own children Mrs. Edna McDon- aid, wife of a millionaire lumber man of Colchester, Conn.,, today stubborn. ly resisted the efforts of her husband to get her to go back home. With the alleged burglar, Herbert Elliott, of Rochester, she was arrested and to- day they occupy cells at Police Headquarters.
 Samuel Mcdonald, the wOman's hus- band, had provided her with a luxur- ious home in the ultra-fashionable part of Gloucester. Finding her to- day. after a search of eleven weeks, plored her to give up Elliott. She turned her back on her husband, stolidly declaring she was satisfied with the step she had taken. She insisted Elliott was merely @ boarder in her home.
 The Philadelphia police say they ar rested Elliott on information supplied by the police of Rochester who main tain he was implicated in a burglary in that city on Oct. 12.
 Mrs. Mcdonald left her home on Labor Day and Elliott is alleged to visit he and the millionaire's wife made in Rochester while detectives were on their trail.
 MARRIED TWENTY YEARS.
 Mcdonald was elected to the State Legislature from Colchester, New London County, in 1908, and has been prominent in Republican politics. He was married twenty years ago, his wife being nine years his junior. She is now thirty-eight. The McDonalds have six children. the oldest, Edna, being eighteen years, and the young est Sidney. two years.
 When his wife disappeared last September McDonald was astounded. Their home life had been ideal. He has indulged her ever caprice. She had automobiles, retinue of ser- wants, and the McDonald home was the scene of many brilliant functions.
 Mrs. Mcdonald took with her when she fled from her home s1,0O0 in cash and s1 ,o0O in jewels that her husband had bought for her. With her went Elizabeth, her fifteen year old daugh- dren that she was going to visit friends in various cities. Two of Mrs. McDonald's four boys were in board ing school; the other children she left at home.
 As she departed from home, Mrs. Mcdonald was attired in an expensive travelling gown, and in three trunks she had packed what belongings she thought she and the children would need From all the Manchester po- lice can learn, Mrs. McDona1d did not meet Elliott until she reached Koch ester, and there she, and the alleged burglar lived in a boarding house which the runaway wife started.
 The detectives broke into the board ing house on Mt. Vernon St. yesterday morning. Mcdonald trailing along af- ter them. When Mcdonald saw his wife he broke down. She betrayed not the slightest emotion. Confront ed with the alternative of going home Or being locked up, Mrs. McDonald calmly declared that she preferred a cell She kissed her children good by, but ignored her, husband.
 Later at Police Headquarters Mo Donald visited his wife's cell with his eldest daughter, but she repulsed their entreaties to return home. She had used up all the money she had and her clothes showed wear.