The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-11
Living in Cheap Lodgings as
Father and Daughter.
SHE is PENITENT NOW
And Ready to Go Home to Papa
and to School.
Declares the Waiter Has Been
Perfect Gentleman.


elopement of Roberta DeJanon, the IT.
year-old heiress, and Frederick Cohen,
the waiter of the Bellevue Stratford,
which terminated in Chicago. are held
by the girls grandfather, Robert Buist,
the millionaire seed man, and Mrs
Cohen, the wife. who was deserted
when the couple fed from this city on
December 49,. Mr.. Buist declares his
granddaughter did not realize what she
was doing and was the victim of
cunning adventurer. Detectives are now
on their way to Chicago. to return the
girl to her grandfather and to bring
Cohen here to face a charge of abduc-
tion.
According to Mr.. Buist's attorney, the
prosecution will be based on an act of
the legislature, which provides severe
penalty for the wilful taking away of
another person for the purpose of profit
or any personal motive. Counsel de-
clared today that Cohen can be held
under the law even if he is able to
prove that the girl consented to ac-
company him because of his undue in
f1uence over her and the great dis
parity in their ages.
Mrs. Cohen says she will stick to her
husband. She says she has no SYM
pathy for the girl who she says, want
ed an escapade and chose her husband
to accompany her.
Will Stick TO Her Husband.
HE was loving and faithful hus-
band until he became a victim of that
foolish GIRL said the wife today, "and
am going to stick to him through his
troubles
She refused to say whether she will
proceed with the $4,000 suit against
Mr.. Buist and Miss DeJanon for the
alienation of her husbands affection for
which she engaged counsel last week.
/ Mr.. Buist has fully forgiven the girl
for her escapade and will do every
thing in the world to make her happy
While he is overjoyed in the finding of
his granddaughter, he has not permit
ted this to soften his feelings toward
CoIen-s He is bent upon having the
man prosecuted to the limit of the law
but in this he may not be able to sue
/. ceed.
| It is believed here that the girl will
plead TO have Cohen go unpunished and
| that the extent of the punishment to be
meted out to- Cohen, If any, will depend
upon the influence the runaway girl can
| bring to bear upon the grandfather.
| The police take little stock in the let
| ters written by Cohen found in the
couples baggage in which he pleads
| with the girl not to run away because
| it might ruin her future. The police
| say he could easily have written these
! and left them in the suit case as evil
dence in case they were caught. of his
honorable intentions. towards the girl.
The Discovery.
Chicago, Jan. 11.-Living as father
and daughter, Roberta Buist De
Janon, the 17-year-old Philadelphia
heiress, and Frederic Cohen, a waiter
at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, who
eloped December 29 from Philadel-
phia and for whom a world wide
search was instituted. have been found
and arrested here.
They were discovered by detectives
in rooming house at 68 West Su-
4 Tor CITY, a<at IL
city. When policemen entered the
house Miss De Janon was playing with
her pet dog, which she took with her
in her sensational disappearance with
! Cohen. Cohen was seated in an ad-
joining room reading.
| They were taken to the Chicago
| avenue police station. Cohen admit
ted his identity and Miss De Janon,
sobbing bitterly, pleaded to be re-
stored to her father.
/ Cohen revealed to the officers the
story of his flight with the girl from
Philadelphia. a flight extending for
thousands of miles through the United
| States and Canada and in which q
! trip to England was INTERRUPTED at
Halifax because the boat authorities
would not permit the presence of Miss
De Janon's pet dog on the vessel. At
least, that was Cohens explanation Of
the abandonment of the sea voyage
which began at st. Johns, N. B., but
the police believe he planned to leave
the boat at Hal1fax in order to elude
| detectives
Cohen and Miss De Janon arrived
here Thursday and rented a room in q
boarding house owned by Mrs Frank
Perrin. Cohen introduced the girl as
his daughter, Alice. He identified him
self as Robert King, and said he was
a barber and that he had Just ar
rived from Montreal in search OF
| work.
/ Had Only S1.60.
The girl, when questioned by the
officers after she had admitted her
identity, stated she and Cohen had
reached Chicago with but $1.6O be-
tween them, and that she gave Cohen
pawned in order to procure money
for them to live on. Their appre-
hension followed a report to the DO
lice by Mrs. Perrin, who had seen pic
lures of the eloping pair in the news
papers and suspected her new board
ers were the missing PhiladeIphia
elopers.
Cohen was locked. up at the Chicago
avenue station where he stated he
would waive extradition proceedings
and the Philadelphia police were noti-
fed to come to Chicago for the pris-
oner.
Miss De Janon and her dog were
| taken to the womanss department of
!, the Harrison street police station.
: Cohen denied any harm had come
! to Miss De Janon since she fed with
him from her home. The eIopers
went to New York city December 20,
remaining in New York only few
hours. They boarded q train for Mon
ltreal In Montreal they took a train
for st. Johns, N B.. where they board
: ed steamer for England At Halifax