Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-04
ORDERLY ARRESTED
Frank M. SlaytOn Masquerading as
Rutherford" Identified AT
the Emergency Hospital
WANTED FOR FORGING CHECKS
SlaytOn Separated From His Job And
Removed to Baltimore Work Of
Detective Kratz.

/ Some few days ago a clean shaven
/ genteel man came to Annapolis seek
ing a job, and in the natural course
of human events walked into The Cap
ital Office to insert an advertisement,
which read as follows:
Wanted-Nurse. male. Graduate
in mental and nervous diseases: wish
es position. Salary expected small.
with room and board. Best of refer
ences furnished. Address IN. r.
r, - Box 597, Annapolis, Md.
The ad. brought several answers.
among them one from the Emergency
Hospital, whose orderly left about
that time, resigning his position to go
into the business of funeral director.
Forthwith IN. r. r." who gave
his name as Rutherford, was engaged
as orderly at the Annapolis Emer-
gency Hospital, and entered upon his
duties, and thereby hangs tale.
On New Years night Officer Joseph
Small visited friend who was a pa
tient at the hospital, and in passing
through the corridors and wards rec
ognized in the orderly a familiar
face. Officer Small stopped, scratch
ed his head and thought for a mo-
ment: live seen that face before,
somewhere, but where?" Officer
Small completed his visit, went home
and looked over some police pictures
he had of 'men wanted.
He Immediately recognized the face
at the hospital as the one advertised
in police headquarters as Frank M.
Slayton, wanted in Baltimore for forg-
ing check on December 1S on the
Drovers and Mechanics Bank of Bal
timore. He wa, described in the ad.
as 80 years old, feet z inches tall
and with hair streaked with gray.
He wore dark clothes and derby hat
when seen last in Baltimore.
There were numberless charges
against him, and there was rumor
of the charge of "bigamy." Imme-
dately upon identifying the picture
as that of Rutherford, the Annapolis
Emergency Hospital orderly, Officer
Small again visited the hospital to
make sure, and doing this, he tele-
phoned Detective Headquarters in
Baltimore, with the result that De-
tective Kratz and an officer of the
Baltimore police force came here on
Monday, New Years day and arrested
their man, took him to Baltimore.
and the Emergency Hospital is minus
an orderly.
When Rutherford, or Slayton,
as his real name is, came here, he was
asked why he came to Annapolis to
seek position as nurse, etc. He told
a doleful story of having married a
trained nurse in Baltimore hospital.
and subsequently discovering that she
had deceived him, and he was heart
broken and wanted to get away from
scenes and people in Baltimore.
The Board of Managers of the hos
pital, sympathizing with the man who
wanted to be nurse appointed him as
orderly.
This is the second serious difficulty
the Board of Managers has had to
contend with recently, the previous
one being caused by a nurse who was
allowed to resign after committing a
grave offense~that brought the Board
of Managers of the hospital into SER
ious difficulties which that efficient
and capable corps of women work
ing for the good of the institution,
finally overcame, with the aid of
their legal advisor.