The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-10-09
CLAIMS WIFE DESERTED.
Percy ". Rathbun Asks Aid OF.
Duluth Police n Finding Lost d.
Wife And 8 Weeks Old Baby h
HAS DETECTIVES ON. THE CASE

Perry w. Rathbun, formerly Of Be-
midi, but now a travelling salesman
of Duluth and who represents the
Plumbing Supplies company, wants
the aid Of the, people of Duluth and
the police in his search for his wife
formerly Miss Harriet Stark, and
their newly born child, whom he as
serts are. held in hiding in Duluth
by relatives
The story by Rathbun is only part
ly sets forth in the suit he. filed
against his wife's, relatives ..in the
district court of Grow Wing county
several days ago as reported in the
Times charging alienation of affec-
ton and asking damages of $4,000.
Mae Shook 724. East First street a
nurse is named as one of the defen-
For weeks he has had detectives
searching throughout northern Min
nesota in an effort to locate his wife
who, he says, must have given birth
to child within the last three
weeks. The representatives of a Du-
luth detective agency, declared that
Mrs. Rathbun was seen at her resi-
.dence in Duluth, but when :Rathbun
attempted to find her she WAS gone.
, In his complaint Rathbun2 declares
that on May 1, 1913, while he and
his wife were maintaining their
hone at tBemidji,. her relatives
"wrongfully and malicoiusly con
spring and continuing and intend
ing, to impure the PLAINTIFF and to
deprive him of said wife's comfort,
society, aid assist and ons
willfully, gfuqly. un1awfuIly
and msliciously induced, persuaded,
assisted; and enticed the said plains
tiff's wife away from and ITO leave
the plaintiff and: her then home and
residence with the plaintiff :.
: Prominent Names Mentioned
OF the defendants named are Ed,
S. Shook and Thelia Shook. his wife
Percy r. Scribner and Florence
Scribner, his wife; Charles S. Carter
and Nellie Carter, his wife; Mr.. and
Mrs. Shook and Mr.. and Mrs. Scrib-
ner live at Northome, Koochiching
county, and Mr.. and Mrs. Carter live
at Hines, Beltrami county, Mimi,
according to the complainant.
Rathbun charges the. defendants
to the suit have cut off communica-
;tion between him and his wife and
that they are now secretly harbor-
ing and OBTAINING her against his
will. He declares that the defendants
had made threats that they would
bring about a divorce adm that. he
should never see either Mrs. Rat
bun or the child
Rathbun who was. in Duluth last
week searched through the birth
statistics in the city health office
but could not find any record of y
birth. He said that if the birth is
recorded at all it is under an assum-
ed name. He declares that he has
supplied his wife with money since
she left him, but that many of the
letters he wrote to her were return
ed to him unopened.
Nurse Cannot Be Found
Miss Shook, who has graduated as
a nurse from St. Luke's hospital
some time ago, has not been in Du-
luth for several days. It was said yes
terday at the place where she lives
that she is out of the city on anurs-
ing case
Rathbun's plea was made that if
any Of the citizens of Duluth know
anything of the whereabouts of his
wife he be notified. The police OF
the. city worked on the case for sew
eral days, but we're unable 70 give
Rathbun any. clue:
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