The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-05
DN|TS STEALING
 KIDNAPPED WIFE
orge T. Amos Admits That He and Mrs. II. 4. Whitehead Had Planned EIopement-To
 Meet in Louisiana.

line Bluff, Sept. %. George T.. los, % years old, q bookkeeper of ,wyille, Ia.s was brought here at early hour this snorning by Cone ble Frank Stewart 10 answer to harge of Kidnapping. Amos was ested at Monroe, La, where he l fled after the disappearance of 5. II. A. Whitehead. wife of | minent planter on the Jones ntaiion in Johnson county, and three-year-old daughter, Pearl. When brought before J. w. Jones Cummins, his former employer, os wept like a child. told how he l planned to steal Mrs. White d and her daughter. and appeal to Jones not to prosecute him, ing that he would rather die n bear the disgrace of his crime. Irs. Whitehead disappeared from city Monday with her three- r-old daughter, Pearl, when she le to this city 10 see d specialist. os IS the son of a prominent nler at Crowville, La, and was ested al Monroe yesterday at the ance Of the local authorities, af- Whitehead and his employer had ituled thorough search for the her and baby without success. }. Whitehead and their child are ight somewhere in Louisiana, iIiing the arrival of Amos, with am she planned to elope. Even os swears that he does not know her whereabouts, declaring that was to write Co him after his ar il at Crowsville, and he was to t her. and the two would goI [.
 mos was formerly a bookkeeper B. L0wenstein x Bro. at Mem s. He went to Cummins several lths ago, when that firm sold and recently, when his health cd, his employer advised him to west The day before his de- lure, Mrs. Whitehead came to Bluff with her little girl, leav- her six-year-old son with the| ter at Cummins.
 Receives Mysterious Letter.
 his was on Monday. On Tuesday Whitehead received an unsign- letter, mailed at Pine Bluff the rn0on before, telling him that wife had been kidnapped, and when he received the letter, the CT who represented himself to m old rejected admirer of the nan, his wife and child would be v miles away. The letter was written and the writer said he gotten possession of the plant wife by force. Whitehead hur- Co Pine Bluff, and Amos, who leaving that day for the west, ,mpanied him here, and offered i'd him in locating his wife and l. nos left here Wednesday night Monroe. Suspicion fell on him, his arrest was asked. While g brought back to this city yes- ny he denied knowing anything ae whereabouts Of Mrs. White
 until his arrival hero this ling, when he asked to be per- d 10 talk with his former em- er. They went into an office ming that of Sheriff Brewster le courthouse, and there Amos the story of his shattered TO- e.
 Refuses to Doubt Wife.
 had been making love to Mrs. ehead for four months, despite statement of the husband and $ on the plantation that they lever been seen together, and so dent was Whitehead of his 3 sincerity that he would hardly se the story of Amos when re- q to him.
 len Amos arrivedfromLouisiana the officer, Whitehead was at tation with MT. Jones. He said he did not want to sec Amos. sclared that he did not want to
 him. but if his wife planned pc all he wanted was his little girl and Amos could have her.
 promised Mir. Jones that he
 not atempt to injure Amos Amos would not confess until