The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-29
Mary Dean Held by Independ-
ence Police for lola Officers.
viii Return and Get Divorce
From Husband, She Says.
COULD NEVER LOVE HIM AGAIN
Found Employment in Home OF
Travelling Salesman.
COnfided Secret to His Daugh-
ter While at Movie Show.

Independence, Kan, July 20
Mary Armstrong Dean, the missing
15-vear-old bride, found at Neodesha
yesterday and lost again last night,
was detained by the police here this
morning She was taken to lola at
noon by a deputy sheriff.
Mrs. Dean came here from Neo-
desha late yesterday on a street car.
She met a travelling man and told
him she was locking for housework.
He took her to his home, where his
wife gave Mrs. Dean employment.
Last night the travelling mans daugh-
ters and Mrs. Dean went to a mo-
tion picture show. There Mrs. Dean
took the girls into her confidence.
The girls informed their parents and
Mrs. Dean was taken to the sheriff S
office this morning.
Mrs. Dean declared she would never
live with Dean again and repeated
her story of alleged abuse. She said
she would go back to lola, obtain
divorce from Dean and marry Nc
Cord.
Il could never love Harvey Dean
again. she said.
Mrs. Dean and McCord had a pre-
arranged plan to meet here last night
and Mrs. Dean said today she saw
him for a few minutes at the travel
his present whereabouts and officers
have been unable to find him today.
Mrs. Dean declared she and McCord
had planned to go back to lola and
would have doEe so had not the Off
GERS interfered.
AS far as known, no charge has
been filed against Mrs. Dean.
Dean Talks to His Wife.
lola, Kan, July 29.-Harvey Dean,
the young husband, when told that his
wife was in custody at Independence,
was unable to restrain his desire to
When Dean took up the telephone re-
ceiver he was trembling SO that he
could scarcely speak.
Mary" he said tenderly, they tell
me that you say that 1 quarreled with
you and tried to stab you-in the court
house park in lola. You didn't say
that, did you2''
Yes, did" came the answer.
Don't you know that there are 9TH |
ers beside myself who know that you
are not speaking the truth when you
accuse me of attacking you? Don't
you know that Mrs. Crumley, wife of
the custodian of the courthouse, saw |
you and McCOrd and knows your every |
action and that 1 was not threatening |
you and not even present when Nc |
Cord led you away"
The wire was silent.
''McCord put that story of the knife !
and the attack in your mouth didn't |
he 2"
Il refuse to answer"
Wont you come back and live with !
me and be a good wife if 1 help you |
out of this trouble? I still love you
and will take the best care of you"
Il never will come back to you," the !
girl replied
Stung at the answer. Dean dropped |
the receiver and a correspondent took
it UP.
Mrs Dean the correspondent be-
gan, what did McCord threaten to do
to YOU if you didn't go with him ? .
What did he threaten to do to you if |
you didn't tell this fake stoy about |
your husband when YOU were discov-
cred at BuffvilIe?"
Refuses TO Answer.
Il will not answer that question" the |
girl replied.
Then he has put this false story in !
your mouth and he has told you what !
would happen to you if you didn't tell /
1t as he ordered you top
That is possible
You never knew or heard of Nc
Cord before you came to Iola?r
Never
Then, how can you explain your |
action in leaving with an entire stran-
ger? Did you think you would be as
safe with him as you would be with the .
man whom you married and whom YOU
knew to be honest and true?''
Il can't explain it. McCord has me
completely in his power. 1 am at his
mercy 1 would lie for him: I'd die /
for him. I'd do anything he tells me
to do. 1 am wholly under his inf1u- /
ence- 1t seems as if he has me hyp- |
noticed
Did you ever love Harvey Dean?"
Once I did, with all my heart
why don't you now?"
4 don't know"
Interrupting the conversation Dean.
the young husband, said: ASK her
once more if she won't come back to |
me-"
The correspondent repeated the
question.
Some time" the girl-wife an
swered, Il may be freed of this
strange fascination for McCord. Per
haps L will regret what 1 have done.
But now 1 cannot. 1 can't feel any-
thing or see anything but love for
McCord."
lola, Kan. July 29--Mary Armstrong
I0ean, the 15-year-old bride who VS.
found apparently abandoned by her
alleged abductor Homer c. McCord. at
Buhville, near Neodesha Monday has
succeeded in evading the officers. Sher-
in Kerr who went to BuffviIle to bring
the girl to lola and pick up the trail
oil McCoru is returning without the
young woman.
Neodesha, Kan, July 29.-Flashing
defiance from her eyes and in tones |
that indicated she felt amply iustif1ed
in what she had done, Mrs. Mary Arm
strong Dean, the 15-year-old bride of
Harvey Dean, a weIl-to-do young farm
er, explained last night why she left
her husband abruptly in public mark
in lola, Kan, last Wednesday night
three days after she had married him
and went away with a stranger.
Mrs. Dean, who was located here
at the nome OF J. I. McCord. father of