The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-25
TIRES OF AFFINITY,
SENOSF0R HUBBY;
LOVER JAILED
Mrs. Mabel Beigh Says J. II. Gid,
With Whom She Eloped From
Rome, N. Y, Has systematically
Robbed Freight Cars.
Search of Room Reveals Much Loot
Woman Held by the Police
As Witness.

Mrs. Mabel Beigh has grown
aweary OF her affinity, one John II.
Gilds, late OF Chicago, more recently
of Milford, Mich, and now languish-
ing in q cell in the Bethune-ave. sta
ton.
Letters that Mrs. Beigh wrote to
her husband, Albert 9eigh, pleading
forgiveness and asking that she be
taken back to the family heartstone in
Rome, N. Y, have resulted In Gilds'
arrest. Mrs. Beigh is held In the CEN
trail police station, and In conjunction
with railroad detectives, the police
are investigating numerous thefts
from freight cars that occurred In
Milford all during the winter.
A quantity of goods OF all descrip-
ton was found in the rooms occupied
by Gilds and Mrs. Beigh on Cass-ave.,
and this has been confscated.
Albert Beigh, the indignant hus-
band, is responsible for all these rev.
elations. He arrived In Detroit, FRI
day. and told the police that his wife
had left him in Rome, N. Y. about
year ago. Recently, he says he re-
ceived a number of pleading missives
from her.
The errant wife confided to the hub
by she had been deceived; that this
affinity business wasn't all that II is
cracked up to be. She says she found
hers to be q very peevish person and
that he was given to fits Of temper,
during which he was liable to strike
her and In other ways abuse her. She
told her husband that she had endur-
ed Gilds' abuse SO long that she could
no longer keep silence and would her
husband please come and take her
back home.
Mr.. Beigh came to Detroit In q tow
ering rage. Perhaps IT was just as
we'll that he did not run across 9ilds
says that he had resolved to dve Mr..
Gilds very sound beating, but upon
second thought, he concluded to turn
the whole matter over to the police.
This conclusion was further strength
ened, when his wife told him that her
affinity had been systematically rob-
bing the railroads out Milford way all
winter.
Gilds and Mrs Beigh remained in
Chicago for q while after their de-
parture from Rome, but later came to
Milford. where they settled upon a
farm there. owned by another party.
Mrs. Beigh mentioned a mysterious
cellar, wherein was concealed oodles
of butter that had been taken from
cars. She says that a lot of merchan-
disc, which they found 1t impossible
to use or dispose Of. they burned.
After arresting Gilds, Friday night,
Detectives Dibble and Shepherd
searched his rooms, where they found
all kinds of merchandise, including
shoes, blankets, tobacco. shirts and
fancy goods. The police say the stun
was stolen at intervals all through the
winter. They said large revolver
also was found In Gilds' room. Detec-
tives have gone to the farm at Milford
to investigate the promises.
Mrs. Beigh is held In the central po-
lice station as witness, and Mr..
Beigh Is remaining In Detroit for
the present He is waiting to
see the outcome of the case and the
police say that from Beigh's present
frame of mind, a police station cell Is
about the healthiest place Gilds could
find