Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-04
DOUBLE DESERTION
in new ORLEANS
Crescent City is Scene Of
Latest Scandal

e~NN'' AN~~S
penniless and in terror of vengeanc5
from father and husband, pretty Mrs
Edward F. Boone and Elizabeth Ken
nedy were found today in a Canal
street boarding house, where they have
been in hiding since their coming t..
New Orleans.
The men-Robert Blair, a former
sweetheart of Mrs. Boone, and Fletch-
er Ard-have fled. Blair told the keer-
er of the boarding house that he was
going to Texas and would send money
from there with which Mrs. Boone
might follow him.
Il am afraid to go back to Varnado,-
Mrs. Edward F. Boone told the land
lady. Il want to- see my baby and I'm
so sorry that I ever did this wild
thing. I'm afraid to go back. I'm
afraid of my father"
The little 1S-year-old wife and moth
er cried inconsolably when Blair de
serted her without notice, leaving he:
no means of support, and with the ban
of her fears raised against her return
home
Mr.. Boone has been in New Orleans
since Saturday, frantically searchins
for his wife, and begging the police
to aid him in finding her. Althougt
Mrs. Boone and Blair posed as husban5
and wife, the keeper of the boardin4
house pried out their secret after tn,
mans departure.
"When they came" she said, "theJ
told me that Blair was a brother Of
Miss Kennedy and the husband of thG
other girl. They wished to all thret
occupy the same room. Ard said that
he was a sweetheart of Miss Kennedy {
and that they intended to be married
He seemed to think that intent to MAJ
ry vested him with marital rights, and
the girl also seemed willing to the ar
rangement / would not permit hin
to occupy the same room with the
girl. That was when the others sug.
gested that she go in the same room
with them.
"On Saturday I directed Ard ant
Miss Kennedy, whose real names / die
not then know, to minister in Gretna
parish, as they had told me they We're
going to get married When they re
turned Ard tried to laugh the matter
off, and said he had just been fooling
me, and that he and the girl had beer
married for long time"
Her suspicious thoroughly aroused
by this time, the keeper of the board
ing house refused the man admittancc
and went systematically to work x
ferret out the truth by cunning ques
tioning. She drew from the girls I
number of conflicting stories, and a
last charged them openly with mask
ing their true identity.
She believes that in some way Oh
another the young men were INFORMED
that MIR. Boone was in town searching
for his wife, and that this was re
sponsible for their sudden and has!
fight. Ard on leaving merely sail
that he was going into the country tt
get some money but would return il
day or so. Without even sayini
good-by to the woman who left hus
band and baby to follow him. Bla'1
gave a message to the landlady fol
Mrs. Boone, saying that he was boun'
for Texas and would send money TO
her to follow on.
The disappearance of the four stimuli
taneously from Varnado aroused in
tense excitement and the police o
several cities we're asked to apprehent
them. Mr.. Boone. believing they wer'
in New Orleans, came down PERSONAL!
to conduct search. He has swor'
out warrants for both Blair and Art
under the Mann white slave law, ant
the pair will be brought here an
nrosecuted in the United States court