New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-27
BANKERS WIFE HALTED
IN DASH TO CARLSBAD
Three Servants Seized Here
After Wild Ride Across Coun-
try with ParaIytiC Woman.
TWO CHILDREN IN PARTY
Heavy Drafts Said to Have
Been Made on Rich Husband
During Trip from San
Francisco.

san Francisco dispatches annGuncin-
/ that a bankers wife had been lur'i
! from her home BY three servants. taken
on a wild automobile trip through Orc
gon and Washington and then across
/ the continent on fast trains. prcNara-
I tory TO European voyage. led 10 the
arrest Of the servants at IN" Hotel
/ Knickcrbokcr yesterday afternoon.
! The bankers wife, paralytlc, was
1 also at the hotel with her two young
I boys. but she WAS not placed under ar
rest
The banker. Nicholas J. Mcnamara.
, obtained warrants no later than yeS-
terday for the arrest II Mrs Clare ".
I Perkins. n Householder; Frederick H..
| Patterson. chauffeur. and Patrick
Walsh valet. charging them with
the larccnv of his motor car. This al
legged theft was only ono part of the
story. Back Of it was the queer flight
Of Mrs. Margaret Mcnamara.
The woman loft her home In 'Frisco's
fashiona Bile suburb san Matco. on
June II with the three servants and
hor children. Chester. aged ton. and
Wilbur. twelve wears old. all in the
motor car. For some days her husband
heard nothing of her. and then. lie
says. numerous heavy drafts on his
bank began 10 pour in, although hts
wife is rcputcd to be worth $500 900 III
her own right.
Blames tho Housekeeper.
Tho banker put detectives on the
case. and told his intimate friends that
the housck"cpcr was responsible for
his wifo's descrtion: that shc had OBJ
,ained complete control over the para
lytic woman's actions. Detectives con-
tinucd on the trail picking mp traces
of the party here and there on tho
northwest coast. Tho drafts continued
,o come but they were the only direct
news Mcnamara had from his wife.
II was In this predicament that his
eightecn-year>o daughter, GLADYS.
found him when she returned from her
school In EuroTe few days ago. Her
father was alone In the San Mateo
home and seemed half distrait. so the
yo1Ing woman took control Of the sit
| uatiOn.
The last accounts she had Of the
partv were that they had sold the mo-
tor car in Portland and purchased
tickets for Chicago. leaving the West
Julv u. Miss Mcnamara wired the
Chicago police department, but the
fleeing party could not be found there
One suggestion. however, turned UP
q clew. ID. 4. White, the san Fran
cisco chief Of police, had wired Wlli
probably stop at first class hotels and
the Chicago detectives found in this
way that Mrs. Mcnamara and the SER
wants passed through that city on
Thursday night.
Slip Past Detectives.
Dispatches from San Francisco and
Chicago came to Inspector Hughes AT
Police Headquarters yesterday morn
Il.
railroad stations and ferries with in
structions to bring the people to Head
quarters if found. But even then they
got by the detectives at the Grand
Central station and went TO the
Knickerbocker.
The hotels had been informed, how
eyer nv the police, and the advent of
the party was reported to Headquar-
ters. Detectives then made the ar
rests.
None Of the prisoners would make n
statement at Police Headquarters. II
is said that tickets for Carlsbad were
found on the prisoners, who intended to
sail on August 3. Mrs. Perkins is forty
wears old, Patterson twenty-nine and
Walsh sixty.
Mrs. Mcnamara and her two children
left the Knickerbocker late in the even
ing and went to another hotel. but they
are under surveillance, pending tele-
graphic instructions from San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Mcnamara visited Police Head
quarters last night and told Lieuten-
ant Funston she was surprised To
learn that her husband had sent the
dispatch from San Francisco which
caused the arrest Of her servants. She
said the automobile i'm which she left
he ne was her personal property.