Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-04-30
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Special to The Tribune
GLENDIVE, Mont April 30.-When
in spite OF his protestations of injured
.. innocence, Arthur Quaintance was on
Saturday evening last taken back to
Waterloo, Ia, in the custody Of Chief
of Police 3 A. Leighton of that city.
to answer for his alleged misdeeds,
the favorable sentiment in Glendive,
which had given him the benefit Of
the doubt was considerably changed
in time There was, in fact, every
evidence that Quaintance is mo good"
to say the least.
= The bride of less than a month, a
mere girl of 18 years of age without
any experience in the world whatever,
was left in the kind care Of Sheriff
J. D. Wynn and wife, pending the
receipt Of funds from her grandfather,
D. S. Hindegardner of Toledo, la., to
pay her passage back to that place.
1t seems that Quaintance was not
arrested on the train, as was first re-
ported, but that he was elected from
the train at this point by the Northern
Pacific conductor, who received tele'
graphic advice from st. Paul at Beach,
N. D., to the effect that Quaintance
was travelling on fraudulent ticket
'(fraudulently obtained, at least,) and
was directed to take up the ticket
and put him off the train unless he
paid his fare otherwise.
Quaintance, it is said, had previous
~ visited Glendive in the capaity Of
a travelling man, and he appealed to
a local merchant whom he had once
called upon for assistance to clear
him from the difficulties. To this
merchant, it is said, he showed bank
book of the Merchants Bank of Cana
da, located at Esmond, B. c., appar-
emily showing that he had had con-
siderable deposit there at a recent
date He also told the story, as prev
iously published, that he had instruc-
ted this Esmond bank to wire his bal
ance to a bank at Waterloo, and that
when he drew checks on the latter
institution, which got him into trouble
he supposed he had funds there and
innocent of wrong doing.
What seems still more strange is
the fact that Quaintance requested
the local merchant to send a wire to
the canadian bank, in order to verify
his statement, depositing his watch
as security for the cost of the tele-
gram. The Merchants National bank
sent wire, which cost nearly seven
dollars by the way, and soon received
a reply to the effect that Quaintance
had no remittance coming from there,
had no deposit there, and in fact did
not bear a very good reputation there.
After the arrival of Quaintance and
his young wife in the city, Chief of
Police G. A. Kinney of Glendive re-
ceived wire instructing him to place
Quaintance under arrest, which he
did, and the man was held in the
county jail until the arrived Of Chief
Leighton of Waterloo, Ia, who briefly
declared that Quaintance was dad
one" and that there is enough pend
ing against him at Waterloo, II prov
en-, to hold him for ten years.
Much sympathy has been expressed
here for Mrs. Quaintance, who is a
fine appearing, intelligent little wo-
man. She seemed to suspect the real.
ity of the charge against her newly.
wed husband when he was being TAX
en- to Jail and asked him to tell her
truly whether he had really done any.
thing wrong. The man, who is con-
her senior, replied only by
shaking his head negatively.
The present plight Of this mere girl
is not hard to understand when 1t is
known that she married Quaintance
when she had known him but two
weeks. He evidently captured her
girlish imagination and persuaded her
to marry him and "go west" with him.
She had been living, since the death
of her mother and the remarriage Of
her father, with her grandfather, D.
s. Hinegardner, who is said to be a
respected citizen of Tole-
do, Ia, a town not far from Waterloo.
To this grandfather the girl applied
for funds to pay her way back home,
though she was told by the sheriff
that she was wecome to stay at his
home until she was safely out of her
difficulty.