The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-22
RUNAWAY COUPLE
. ARE APPREHEND| |:
Virginia Baldwin and Sam sIldis
Are Arrested in Fl. Madison This
Morning and Serious
Charge Made.
MAN rs WEALTHY
Virginia Repeats Escapade Of Last
Spring and ls Again Stopped by
Officer in Fort
Madison.

Another chapter was written in the
life OF little Virginia Baldwin this
morning when she and another af-
finity were arrested in Fl Madison by
request Of the local police in response
to call for help by the father and
brother OF the girl.
Sam Sildis, the man who was ar
rested with the girl, is a resident OF
Ft. Madison, and conducts the Boston
store in that city. 1t is said that he
is well-to-do. The pair we're taken to
the police station and Sildis was lat
er released but was kept under sur
veillance by the FIT. Madison police.
pending the arrival of Ktokuk officers.
Virginia, who is well known to citi-
zens of Keokuk, acquired lot of un-
pleasant notoriety last spring when
she eloped with Henry Huer, a walt
er at the Grand Hotel. A charge Of
abduction was brought against him at
the time but the case was later dis
missed. He has since left the city.
Ex-chief Of Police Henry M. Schevers
made a trip to Muscatine for the
couple at that time and reached there
Just in time to prevent marriage
license being issued to them.
The girl lives with an aunt and her
father and brother at 107 North Sew
enth street, and Is demure looking
miss, who has been more than usual
ly popular with the young men around
town. When she left town this morn
ing she wore dark skirt and white
sweater jacket and white knit cap.
About nine o'clock, the brother OF
the girl walked into the police sta
ton and told Chief Kenney that his
sister had left town with Sildis and
asked the help of the department in
locating them. Shortly after Edward
Baldwin, father OF the girl, came into
the station with tears streaming down
his face and asked the assistance of
the police in locating the pair.
| Chief Kenney immediately COM
municated with FIT Madison police
lby telephone and was told that the
couple had Just gone into the post
Office and that they would get them at
once. In about fifteen minutes a call
from Fl. Madison appraised the chief
that the couple had been taken into
custody and that they would be held
until the arrival of the local officer.
While waiting at the TT. Madison
station, Virginia told the officers that
this was not the first time she had
been arrested and told them Of her
flight with Huer last spring.
After the couple had been found,
| Yirginia's father appeared at the su-
Iperior court room and swore to an In
formation, charging Sildis with zen,
ticing female child for prostitution"
and said that he would push the case.
He also held a long conference with
County Attorney Craig In the latter's
office.
The charge against the man is a
serious one and 1t ia thought that he
will make bitter fight to keep out OF
the penitentiary. His ample means
will be brought into play, according to
his friends in an effort to have the
case dismissed.
| Chief Kenney left for FIT. Madison
this afternoon and will bring the
couple back to Keokuk this evening
Sildis will be arraigned in the super
Tor court tomorrow morning to answer
In ff,a charge