The Washington times., 1912-11-07
WARRANT. IS ISSUED
FOR s. F. RICHARDS
FOR NON-SUPPORT
Missing Clerk Said To Have
Left District With a
Woman.

TWO homes have been made desolate,
and eleven children-one of them the
nve-month-old daughter of the woman
IN the case-have been deserted, accord
ing to a story told the police. in the
disappearance Of Mrs. Thomas CLANCY.
OF 20 Anacostia road. Bcnning, and
stewart +. Richards. a clerk In the
war Department. They left the city to-
gether, II IL said, last Friday morning
with sobs breaking his voice. Thomas
Chaney. boilerman In the Benning
power house, declared today the In
fatuation between his wife and Rich
ards had existed for more than four
months, and that he had been power
less to break It, His wife gayly kissed
him good-by and left him last Friday.
He has not seen her since.
Warrant for Richards.
warrant charging non-support hrs
been issued by Justice OF the Peace
Robert T.. Joyce for the arrest of
Richards. He has deserted wife and
seven children. After receiving his half
months pay from the Government and
paying his wife $50 last Thursday he
left the city. 1t is said he. In company
with woman of the description OF
Mrs. Chaney. was seen In Baltimore last
Monday.
Mrs. Chaney met Richards at Chesa-
peake Beach last summer when he was
running an automobile between the dlf-
ferent points on the beach there. It IL
said they fell In love with each other
at the time, that Mrs. CLANCY openly
flouted her husband IN Richards pres
ence, that she frankly told the former
she Intended to desert him. Since re-
turning to her home In RenninG her
husband says she has neglected her
home and four children, who are Ner-
non. Helen, Richard. and Ruth, the
latter five months old.
Richards Is Her Senior.
Mrs. Chanev is twenty-slx years Of
age and Is pretty. She was married in
September. 1907 Richards Is at least
fifteen years her senior. and has been
a clerk in the War Department for some
years.
my wife has been in love with Rich
morning II have known of this fact.
for she made no secret of II. All her
relatives, except her mother, tried to
break the infatuation. but found It I'M
possible. When ] worked on the day
shift Richards came to see my wife
at night with an automobile. When
was on the night shift he boldly came
TO my home in the day time.
One OF my children says he opened
a bank book in the home one afternoon
and told my wife he had several hun
dred dollars In the bank. He has been
wild to have her run away with him for
q month. i think snc neSltateu LOT
time on account of the children.
Said She Loved Richards.
IT saw my wife the last time at her
mothers last Thursday. She was up
stairs. and she cried down to me that
she would never return to my home.
asked her why. She said she loved Rich
ards. I tried to go upstairs to see her,
but her mother forbade me to do so.
She seemed to be in favor of my wife
leaving me.
II don't ask my wife to come back.
] am through with her. | want a di-
vorce and the custody of my children
CLANCY saw Mrs. Richards two days
ago. Mrs. Richards has seven children
TO care for. while he has five, the old
est being by his first wife Reports
have come to both of them that the
runaway couple has been seen in Bal
timore.
A man who knows Richards called at
police headquarters Yesterday afternoon
and told Inspector Boardman, chief OF
detectives, that he saw the missing man
in company with a woman on Charles
street, Baltimore, last Monday, Eff
forts to locate them have so far been
unavailing.