Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-10
Miss Grace Ewing and
Charles Keystone
Missing.
YOUNG WOMAN TELLS
MOTHER OVER PHONE
Police Refuse to Entertain
Charge of Abduction
Against the Man.

When Mrs. John A. Ewing, Of 10
Watson avenue appeared in the First
Precinct Court today to make a charge
of abduction against Charles Keystone,
the public received the first intimation
It has had OF an unfortunate ma
which Thursday evening tool 1s-year-
old Grace Ewing and Keystone, a a
ried man with two children, from New
ark. together presumably. Thursday
evening.
Mrs. Ewing reported the eiopement to
Chief of Police Corbitt Immediately
after she learned of it. but Cor reasons
which, like the ways of the heather
Chinee, are dark and peculiar, he pre-
ferred to keep it a police secret. without
n particularly noticeable results in
the way Of capturing the couple accru-
ing.
Got Telephone Message.
Early Thursday evening Mrs. Ewing
said her daughter, who had beer meet
ing Keystone against her orders. teie-
phoned that she and the young man
were leaving town together. She said
she was telephoning from the Market
street station of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, and that it would be useless to
attempt to follow her and bring her
back as her mind was made I'D. Mrs.
Ewing's charge of abduction could not
be received in the First precinct sta
ton as her daughter Grace was Is
years of age.
The story of the courtship which
illuminated in the elopement, as told b.
MRS Ewing, is an absorbing one. It
ran substantially as follows: Keystone.
a ~presentable young man Of q. son of
Madame Marie, the beauty specialist
of SO Broad street. met Miss Grace and
asked to be permitted to call upon her
at her home. The impression he made
was distinctly favorable and he came
again Gradually his attentions in
creased in seriousness and he was much
in the young woman's company.
Married Years Ago.
1t was about this time, according
to Mrs. Ewing, that Keystone pre-
tended to tell Miss Ewing the story
of his life He said he had peer mar
ried years before but had left his wife
after a few months Rnd MAS getting a
divorce. Later he said he had received
permission of the trial judge to marry
again and would be given his final de-
cree later.
When Mrs. Ewing heard the story of
the previous marriage she forbade Roy
/ stone the hnI1Ca Ha hal -o1o-4-
begun a sort of manufacturing busi-
ness with Robert A. Ewing, a brother
of Miss Ewing. employed as a clerk at
765 Broad street. Mrs. Ewing learned
that her daughter was meeting Roy
stone away from home. Once the girl
openly threatened to leave with him.
Mrs. Ewing discovered that Mrs. Roy
stone lived with her two children in
East Orange and went TO see her. Mrs.
Keystone preferred a charge in an East
Orange court against her husband for
desertion. She accompanied Mrs. Ewing
to Newark when the latter old the
police the story of the elopement.
Early Thursday evening Mrs. Ewing
Said she was called to the telephone.
Her daughter had not returned from a
shopping trip downtown, and it was
the girls voice which greeted her.
Tells Mother Not to Worry.
Il didn't want you to worry about
me, mother said Grace. $50 1 thought
1 would call you up and let you know
Charlie and / are going away together.
You needn't try 10 follow US. as / am
telephonihg from the Pennsylvania sta
ton and our train IS almost due"
Mrs. Ewing begged her daughter to
reconsider her rash step, but the girl
was not to be moved by e~ntreaties. and
as the rumble of an approaching train
came over the phone to the mother
the receiver at the other end OF the
line was hung up.
The secret police search has been alb
solutely fruitless. and today Mrs.
Ewing determined to endeavor to get
a little more action by making the
abduction complaint, which was not
received.