The Washington times., 1911-06-24
RELATIVES OF GIRL
WHO WEEDS ACCUSED
EhBEzZLERS SILENT
Refuse to Talk of Miss Kel-
sey's Marriage to
e. Lee.
PAY CLERK QUITS CELL
TO TAKE A BRIDE
Ceremony Performed in Buffalo,
With Marshals Hover
ing Near.

The family OF Miss Audrey F. Kelsey,
the pretty girl who married Navy Pay
Clerk Edward Valentine Lee, accused
of stealing $4,000 from the battleship
Georgia, when the jailers at Buffalo
temporarily let him out for the cere-
mony, will not talk about the affair.
When a reporter called at the Kelsey
residence, which is at 2203 Fourteenth
street northwest, Mrs. Lee, nee Kelsey,
was simply said to be not at home"
Her brother came to the door and said
neither he nor anyone else in the house
hold would say a word about the mat
ter. He would not even tell his name.
81 hope you won't think 1 am impo-
hte about it, he said, but l can't tell
Lee, and we don't know anything about
her reported marriage to him except the
things we have read in the newspapers.
We decided not to say anything
about the matter and we are going to
stick to our decision-at least for a
while. The business has given US
publicity that we don't like, and we just
feel that the least said the best it will
be-"
Trial in Buffalo.
He said he did not know when or
whether his sister, now Mrs. Lee, would
return to Washington
The Department of Justice, which had
Lee arrested on the charge Of stealing
$4,000 from the battleship Georgia, at
Guantanamo, Cuba, said today that it
would prosecute him at Buffalo, where
he was arrested and where he is held
pending a hearing of his case by the
Federal grand jury. The department
will have charge of the prosecution,
the Navy Department having abeyed.
SO TO speak, in the matter of jurisdic-
ton.
The crime of which Lee is accused is
alleged to have been committed in
Guantanamo, and II is said that he first
landed in Florida, where he had a good
time and spent so much money that
people sat up and took notice. After
that he Travelled about Canada and went
TO Europe.
The Justice Department officials would
not say today-they declared they could
not properly say-what clues had led to
the arrest of Lee at Buffalo. There
have been several stories published
about how the Department Of Justice
agents followed Lee from Florida, but
none of them have been officially af-
frmed
But it is related that from the very
first the department agents watched
Miss Kelsey. Lee was known TO have
been attentive to her. They watched
her all the time. They expected Lee to
come to her in Washington.
Shuns Washington.
But their speculations were wrong.
Lett may have been through a chiv-
alrous impulse to shield the girl from
tho discomfort that would follow his ar
rest in Washington-kept away from
Washington. And when there was a
meeting of the two it was the girl that
went to Lee.
The agents believed that Lee had
forgotten Miss Kelsey. He did not
come to Washington, however, and
ence with her. But Miss Kelsey was
nevertheless well informed as to Lee.
She arrived in Buffalo four hours
after he was arrested last Wednesday.
The marriage of Lee and Miss KEEL
sey was quickly done. 1t is related
that he had telegraphed her to come
to Buffalo to be married to him.
license. A deputy marshal handcufT-
ed himself to Lee and Lee got the
license from the city clerk. He said
he was the son of Arthur H. Lee,
and that he was a native of Ken
lucky. He said his occupatio was
that of an accountant and smiled.
After that he went to Trinity Church
with his bride. a United States mar
shal and several deputies being his at
tendants.
Returns to Cell.
When they had been married Lee
was returned to his cell, and Mrs
Lee and her brother went to a hotel
near the Jail.
Lee and Miss kelsey met In the West
moreland apartment house, where she
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