The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-11
Daughter of Wealthy Capitalist
Escapes From Sanitarium.
Runs to Car From Keepers at
Bonner Springs.
LOVESSHIPPING CLERK
Father Sends Her Away When
Husband Asks Divorce.
Sweetheart and Attorneys With
Her in Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo-, April IA ro-
nance, such as popularity is supposed
to exist only in the annals of melo-
drama, was brought to light in Kansas
City, when it became known that the
married daughter of well known
capitalist here, recently had been TAX
en- to sanitarium at Bonner Springs,
Kan, from which she escaped by the
aid of her attorneys and an alleged
admfrer. Since hurried automobile
ride from Bonner Springs to Kansas
City, Kan, the young woman has
evaded all efforts of her relatives to
find her, saying that she had been de-
pr1ved of her rights and her liberty,
and proposed to fight for both in the
courts. The latest development in the
situation came yesterday evening when
at the instigation of the young wo-
mans father, the alleged admirer was
arrested by United States Marshal A.
J. Martin, charged with misuse of the
mails.
The young woman whose exper-
fences of the past few weeks, as re-
lated by her last night, read like
| page from a novel, is Mrs. Mary Hood
Arnold Tanner, whose husband, A. ].
| Tanner, filed suit for divorce on March
| %, following a disclosure concerning
the disappearance of two valuable
diamonds belonging to his wife.
| Inc dII0IQpL Oh a negro woman TO
pawn large diamond several weeks
ago resulted in the police department
being notified and investigation dis
closed that Mrs. Tanner had given the
diamond to the negro woman to pawn,
in order to secure some ready money.
Sweetheart Has Diamond.
The girls father. J: H. Arnold,
nue., declared that another valuable
diamond was missing, and this was
| found in the possession OF Herman
| Pickerell, shipping clerk for the Ma
| tional Biscuit company, who readily
| admitted having the gem and turned
| it over to the proper authorities.
Shortly afterwards Tanner filed di-
vorce proceedings and asked the Gus
\ tody of their only child, Dorothy Anna
Tanner. The father of Mrs. Tanner
announced that the suit against his
| daughter would be contested and en-
ployed attorneys to look after the
matter On March %, tn eyoung wo-
man was taken to the sanitarium at
Bonner Springs.
Late Monday evening j. H. Arnold
! father of Mrs. Tanner, appeared at
the office of United States Marshal A.
J. Martin and asked that Herman
! Pickerell be arrested. In support of
his request, he turned ever to the
marshal letters purporting to have
been written by Pickerell to Mrs. Tan
ner at Bonner Springs.
The precautions taken by the rela-
/ tives of Mrs. Tanner to keep her in
| the Sanitarium were not sufficient to
prevent her getting in communication
with her attorneys, Judge Charles E.
Thompson of Kansas City, Kan, and
Harry Friedberg of Kansas City Mo,
and also with young Pickerel. A plan
was evolved whereby the young wom-
an should run to a waiting automo-
| bile during her walk Saturday,
| when she named hV two At
PENDANTS The plan worked as out
lined and Judge Thompson and Rob-
ert Darnall, detective from Kansas
| City, Kan, made the trip to Bonner
Springs in the automobile and whisked
the girl away before the sanitarium
attendants realized what was taking
place.
81 am planted in Kansas City, Kan,
and am going to stay here until my
attorneys tell me to move" Mrs. Tan
ner said as she sat in the parlor of the
Maltby hotel, Kansas City. Kan, last
night. Nodding his assent, and sitting
comfortably close to her on divan
was Herman Pickerell who held a
box of bon bons in his hands, which
he had brought to her. A United
States deputy marshal remained out
side in the lobby, while Mrs. Tanner,
Pickerell and her attorney, Charles E.
Thompson. conferred.
| mo, 1 don't know why I was sent to
that sanitarium, only I know don't want
to go back to Missouri she said. Il
can't figure out why 1 should be sent out
| there. 1 am % years old, and that's just
why got attorneys to find out the why.
f. Fought With Husband.
1--WE lived in a home next door to my
ather's The home was given me by my
mother before she died. 1t was on big
fifty-foot lot, but that lot nor twenty 0f
them was big enough for my husband and
my marriage was one of these made
by the old folks kind. My father and my
husbands father went after the marriage
license, and 1 understood they even got
the wedding ring. l was Is and my huS-
band was only a year older.
Money matters and family interference
| have always been my troubles. Perhaps
that had something to do with my being
sent to a sanitarium. But am determined
my rights. That's what 1 hired attorneys
for
Mrs. Tanner said that she had been
treated as a child, although she now is q
| years old, and was not permitted to
| handle her own affairs Her mother. when
she died some years ago. was said to have
been wealthy and the young woman
, claims to have an estate coming from
During the whole course of the affair,
| neither Mrs. Tanner nor Pickerell have
, made any secret of their infatuation fol
each other, and both freely admitted II
last night. The letters which led to tbs
arrest OF PickereH were addressed to 2
negro maid and not to Mrs. Tanner. ac-
the letters and also admitted that they
were meant for Mrs. Tanner.
II TaI-inO Ont Dead Couvicfs