Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-25
DR.. HARTMAN
TAKEN TO JAIL
Miss Madden Insists Upon Be-
ing imprisoned Until Po-
lice ACquiesCe

The following, from the San Fran
cisco Chronicle of July 10. is an ac
count CT the arrival in San Francisco
of the clipping San Jose dentist who
was arrested in Honolulu and Miss
Sophia Madden, with whom he eloped
when he deserted his wife and child.
| ST Zee this story was printed in San
| Francisco the complaint against DR..
father has been dropped.
DR.. Pope G. Hartman, the San Jose
dentist, who deserted his wife and
son, to seek life of happiness in the
South Seas with San Jose nurse,
Miss Sophia Maddern, was taken from
her side on the Oceanic steamer So
mona, early yesterday morning by
Sheriff Arthur b. Langford and re-
turned to San Jose on warrant
charging abandonment of his child.
There were no tears, sensational In
cidents nor affecting farewell at the
separation of the clippers. The liner
came into port early in the morning
and anchored well out in the stream.
north of Alcatraz
At o'clock launch put out with
a messenger bearing letter to DIR.
Hartman from San Francisco tela-
tive. In the letter the doctor was adj
vised to make no statement
1 At daybreak Sheriff Langford, ac-
companied by Detective Henry G.
Kalmbach Of the San Francisco de.
partment, boarded the vessel. DR..
Hartman and Miss Maddern were seat
ed at the breakfast table when the po-
lice entered. The couple quietly with
drew to their staterooms, where they
remained until the steamer locked at
the Filbert-street wharf
Newspaper men found them in room
/ %, which had been occupied by Hart
iran on the return voyage. Miss Mad
dern had been placed In the adjoining
room, No. %, during the trip.
Hartman seemed to have passed a
\ sleepless night. He nervously paced
up and down his cabin while evading
the questions of reporters. Miss Mad
i derr requested the reporters to leave
i the doctor and her alone, and when
they withdrew the door was locked.
When the police told the couple that
they intended to arrest only the doc
tor, Miss Madden insisted on accom-
banying him and said she intended to
go to Jail with him and share his
troubles. Sheriff Langford threatened
to arrest her for disturbing the peace
If she made an attempt to accompany
the party and she subsidized.
As soon as the vessel locked the
woman passed through the gate alone,
shielding her face from photographers
with handbag. She went uptown in
4 q taxieab.
After an examination of Hartman's
trunks he and the police drove to the
| City Prison. An hour later Hartman,
| his friend 7. o. Smith, capitalist OF
San Jose, and the sheriff were on
1 their way TO Hartman's home town
The elopment of Hartman with the
nurse mystifes his friends. Miss
Madden is not remarkable for beauty
She is tall, slender. young woman.
with sharp features and dark eyes.
She wore "a modish blue suit and a
French hat, and blue veil hid her
| features.
Left Wife Last Month.
Friends of Hartman say he and his
wife lived happily together in their
| twelve years of married life until the
elopment on June 18th The first in
timation his wife had of his infatua-
tiCn for the nurse was when she found
! Miss Maddern and Hartman dining
in his Office the day before the elope-
ment
At that time the incident was laugh.
| ed off as Irritation. Mrs Hartman,
! a handsome yollug woman felt M nm
| easiness. She knew little of Miss
! Maddern. who had been employed by
DIR. B. Nelson c. Bissell of San Jose
| for several months
On June 28th Hartman told his wife
that he was going to Canada on a
long vacation. Miss Maddern announc-
| ed that she was going to visit her
mother in Carlton, Or.
They sailed from San Francisco on
July 1st on the steamer Ventura,
booked for Sydney, Australia, as Mr..
| and Mrs. p. G.. Harmon When the
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