Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14
GIRL SAYS SHE'LL
STAND BY WAITER
Miss de Janon Says She, Not
He, Planned the EIipe-
ment

CHICAGO. Jan. 11.-Roberta de Janon,
the Philadelphia heiress. said today that
it court proceedings were Begin against
Frederick Cohen, the waiter with whom
she e,oped, she would be his chief de-
fender.
MIR Cohen is in the right" she said.
''It was | who persuaded him :" leave
Philadelphia 1t was he who refused; IL
was he who asked me day after d." 10
return to my grandfather, al1 it was
he who cared for me. If they start coJ"t
sction against Fred. 1 will ccItainly go
to his defense. He has done nothing
miss. / will always defend Fred"
Mics de Janon reiterated that her rela-
tiom2 with Cohen had never been any ex-
cept between father and daughter.
IT viii promise never to have anything
more to do with Mr.. Cohen" said Miss
de JanoE IT will try to give him some
money IL ny grandparents mill allow *.
Mr.. Cohen told me that he had giver his
wife 5000 before we started on our zip.
would like to see his family well pro-
vided for.
This is not the first time I nave run
away from home. When 1 was IL years
old ard living with my mother n Clay
ton, N. Y, 1 ran away to so to my
father who was in New York. 1 only
reached Utica when I was caught and
sent back home.
Robert de Janon, the Philadel-
phia heiress arrested here in the
company of Frederick Cohen, a
waiter, today expressed desire to return
to her home in Philadelphia, and go back
to school, She appeared none the worse
for her experience of a night in the po-
lice station.
Cohen was still confined in a cell at 81
different police station from that in witch
Miss de Janon was held. The girl. how
ever, was spared the displeasure OF pass
ing the night in a cell, having been
quartered in the woman's annex,
1t was expected that the clippers would
be given a formal examination today, and
plans formulated for their return to Phil
adelphia. The local police received word
today that detectives from Philadelphia
were en- route here, and would probably
arrive tonight. The couple may be taken
back to Philadelphia tomorrow.
Nothing has been heard from the father
of the girl since her discovery. Mr.. De
Janon is in New York.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 11-Opposing
views as to which Is the guilty party
in the elopement of Roberta B. de Janon
the 17-year-old heiress, and Frederick
Cohen, the waiter of the Bellevue-Strat-
ford, which terminated yesterday with
the arrest of the two i'll Chicago are
held by the girls grandfather, Robert
Buist the millionaire seedman, and Mrs.
Cohen, the wife who was deserted when
the couple fed from this city on Decem-
Der 29 Mr.. BUST declares his grand
daughter did not realize what she was
doing and was the victim OF a cunning
adventurer.
Detectives were on their way to Chi
k11n e. he irl n hal
grandfather and to bring Cohen here to
face a charge of abduction.
According to Mr.. Buist's attorney. the
prosecution will be based on an act of the
legislature which provides a severe PEN
atty for the willful taking away of an
other person for the purpose of profit or
any personal motive. Counsel declared
today that Cohen can be held under the
law even if he is able to prove that the
girl consented to accompany him, be-
cause of his undue influence over her and
the great disparity in their ages
WATERS WIFE LOYAL.
Mrs. Cohen says she will stick to her
husband. She says she has no sympathy
for the girl who, she says, wanted
an escapade and chose her husband to ac-
company her.
HE was a loving and faithful husband
until he became a victim of that foolish
girl" said the wife, today. and II am
going to stick to him through his troub-
les"
She refused to say whether she will
proceed with the $4,000 suit against Mr..
Buist and Miss de Janon for the alien
alton of her husbands affections, for
which she engaged counsel last week.
Mr.. BUST has fully forgiven the girl
for her escapade and will do everything
in the world to make her happy.
Mr.. Buist had Henry F. Walton, his
counsel. and w. Atlee Burpee, personal
friend. as his guests at the Union League
club for breakfast. When asked for the
latest developments, the miner said:
DELIGHTED TO HAVE HER BACK.
II am perfectly delighted to get back
my little girl Mr.. Walton is my counsel
and he will do the talking.
Here Mr.. Walton broke in with:
You can rest assured a charge will
be made against Cohen, and one that Will
lie. The question will be submitted tol
the district attorney at conference this
afternoon
Mr. Burpee said that it had not beenl
definitely decided what would be donel
with Miss de Janon. He intimated she|