The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-28
WALTER CAN'T FIND HIS WIFE
RICH LONDONER FINDS No ONE
AT STATION TO GREET HIM.
Somebody Cabled Her TO Come 10 Amer.
Tea. and Wired Him she d Meet Him In
Philadelphia. hut Al Thesr Things
Give No clue to Her Whereabouts.


and wealthy London family who lac,
February was married to Mrs Laura NJ
Bowker. a divorcee. formerly Of this city
has lost his wife.
When his bride OF few months. who
came from London in July. did not meet
him a. Broad street station IA her tele'
gram had promised the Young English
man began to turn the town topsy-turvy
in his search.
Now he is not sure that his wife sent
the telegram which met him at his boat
in New York on Saturday. He also is
not sure why his wife came over To
America at this time. So many uncer-
tainties have distracted the London man,
and he Gays he cant understand it.
Tonight the young husband hurried
from one hotel and apartment house to
another. scanning the guest lists. He
interviewed walters at cafes, sent tele-
grams and cablegrams. and his long dis
tance telephone bills made the hello
girls gasp.
While the Walters were on their honey
moon last spring they occupied house
in North Fifteenth street. Walter found
his home closed. locked up tight. He
otl IedllNcS VI tiN IhtSihS N''' "a
West Phila delphia and communicated
with her parents in Cedarville. \. }. He
! even called the city detectives to aid him.
But he cant find her. and he cant under
stand it.
Some seven years ago the woman now
Walters wife figured in another bit OF
exciting adventurein Philadelphia. That
was before Walter. Jr.. knew her OF
course. Then she was the wife Of Marina
duke Bowker. Jr.
Bowker accused one William II. john
son of Orange. y. j., of stealing his wife =
love away. Detectives of MI. Bowker.
said TO be on Mr.. Bowkers payroll. saw
young johnson and Mrs Bowker eating
behind some palms in a Chestnut street
cafe. johnson was arrested. and in a
later suit Mrs. Bowker got divorce.
according to Mr.. Walter.
Walter says he has heard the story but
that he didn't pay much attention to IL.
He saws he has heard the name Johnson,
too, but thinks the name Ia not concerned
stand it.
Its bally poor scheme 20 fall in love.
old chap" he said tonight. Its much
tJollier to have pals"
Then he told how he had met the
vivacio,is divorcee in London three years
charms
Before her marriage to Marmaduke
Bowker, Jr.. in 1900. Mrs. Walter was
Miss Laura NJ. Bowman Of Cedarville.
y. j She WAS pretty and accomplished
Following her divorce from Bowker and
the suit against Young johnson she
visited in London, and there the wealthy
young Walter met her.
At the time of her divorce proceedings
Mrs Bowker = age was given as -. That
was seven years ago The husband
tonight said she is 20 now, He is -
himself
They were married in the parish Of
Marylebone on February IL last. Their
honeymoon they spent in America. and
lived in Philadelphia the greater part of
the time Mrs. Walter owns property at
2Oi5 North Fifteenth street. a gift from
her father and the young couple made
this their home.
In those davs, fired with imbibed Ameri-
can ambition. Walter even con- sidered
learning trade az Cramps shipyard
Roland Allwork. chief experimenting
engineer Of the Panama Steamship Com
pany. stationed AZ Cramps. is his uncle
But thev returned TO London in three
months Walter lives AZ Frogmoore ST
Albans, Hertfordshire He is An accom-
plished rider. not professional rider
you know" he explained tonight His
father gathers wealth from copper and
silver mines in Wyoming
Now comes the mystery, Five weeks
ago a cablegram came to London telling
the bride that her father was i'll a. his
home a, Cedsrville. y j Mrs Walter
sailed on the Campania on July Is
Il went down to the pier to bid her
Rood-by and we parted the best Of pals, :"
said the distracted husband to-day
A cablegram came to London two
weeks later saying that the father-n IN W
was suffering from typhoid fever Walter
A. 4 l.
Atlantic. Il came to fetch my wife" he
said.
He cabled his bride on his depa rture
When he arrived in New York on the
American liner Philadelphia on Saturday
he found n telegram signed Laura NJ.
Walter" II told him to meet his wife AT
the Broad street station. Philadelphia, at
3 o'clock that afternoon.
But. YOU see IL was N least half past
when the gangplank was lowered and
il was fully l:+5 when received the 'ele
gram couldn't get TO Philadelphia
before s. you know
When Walter arrived at : O'Clock no
wife greeted him al III" Broad street
station She hasn't greeted him since
and h. cant understand it He called
up the Bowmans AZ Cedarvilla, y j and
. they told him that their daughter had
Iafr there ~ soon A. she received the cable
gram from London announcing Walter :
! departure They were surprised when
Walter asked if Bowman had been sick
Later by tracing the telegram he had
. received in New York Walter saws ne
. learned that a servant girl had sent il
from this city,
Il can't understand it," Walter said as
he continued his search tonight. Il
think il must be an accident, YOU know
Perhaps she thought | was detained by
he strikes in England and intended to
rail on a later boat. ! would have been
AZ the station on time. but you see.
couldn't
Perhaps she saw wasn't on that train
and then left the station refusing to wait
longer She's a harum scarim little beg
gar and that would he like her"
The Youthful husband is a nephew ot
Arthur Frazer Walter, formerly of the
London Times.
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