Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-20
SISTERS PURSUE
COUPLE IN
MYSTERY
Bride Of Newman Kept Name
Secret by Clever Ruse, Sis
ter Says.


telephone, Mrs. Cummings informed
20 BRIDE be that she would invite
sIrs. W. c. Robertson, wife of the
episcopal minister there, and sister
If Senator Lea, TO the wedding. The
woman demurred and said that Mrs
Robertson and she we're estranged.
Next Came the Wedding.
Ths next heard Of the couple was
rnat they had been married in At
Iants-
According TO the dispatches from
Memphis, Newman's bride convinced
slrn that the police we're attempting
10 separate them and induced him to
fee with her to the West. Newman
sisters. as soon as they got on the
rrau. started in pursuit from Chat
tanooga
The whereabouts Of the couple still
psrnains unknown. Rels tives OF New
man have told Memphis police that he
sent her into Texas after being ad-
vised that he was duped. A search
generating practically every city OF
The South has been instituted to find
IN. pair. Investigators will pay es-
pecisl attention to Atlanta, where
Newman brought the woman for the
marriage ceremony, which was per
formed by the Rev. H. M. DuBose, OF
ehe First Methodist Church.
Meanwhile the confessed husband
o. the woman is under surveillance
sv Memphis police. Although he had
given his name as TAR, he admitted
on Thursday that he did so to shield
ais Identity and protect his relatives.
TAR could not produce documents to
prove his marriage 10 the woman.
Investigation among friends of
Newman in Memphis has brought out
Shs fact that hs was warned Of d
plot before the elopement. He was
Informed that he was mistaken in the
IDENTITY of the woman and that she
vas not Miss Marjorie Les
Torn Check Produced.
Newman is said to have produced
torn check for $4,000. which he
GAINED had been given him by the
woman
This is my confidence in her, and
her faith in me-" he Is reported as
having said she has offered me
money. refused to take Il" and with
that Newman is declared to have
corn the check into bits and thrown
them away.
Late Wednesday night Newman IS
said 70 have communicated with a
Memphis friend from Edwards. Miss,
that he was going to Chattanooga to
stay with his sister. a Mrs. Wheeland.
Investigator were dispatched there
Thursday 70 find him.
Tarr, it is understood, has enlisted
The aid Of the Memphis police de-
partment in the search for his wife.
aud agents Of Tarr are expected in
Atlanta Thursday or Friday to take
lp the search at this end. Atlanta
elews, however, are very meager, and
little is expected to result from an
investigation of the couple while here,
Newman and the woman, when they
we're married, were attended by Lind
sey Hopkins, a prominent Albanian
and a college friend of Newman, and
there was nothing to indicate that
the wedding was not regular. Dr.
DuBose knew nothing of the Womans
claims to relationship with Senator
Lea, and married the couple as he
would marry any one who applied
with the proper legal papers.
Hopkins Defends Newman.
Mr.. Hopkins Thursday morning
came vigorously TO the defense of Mr..
Newman and expressed the opinion
that the Memphis man is innocent Of
any willful wrongdoing in marrying
tae woman.
Il have known Mr. Newman for
fifteen years." said Mr.. Hopkins. land
he has always Deen one of my best
friends and man 1 would trust I'M
der any circumstances. He is well
known in Southern business circles
and especially in the Carolinas, where
he has had extensive business inter-
asts. attended his wedding because
Of my friendship for him, and neither
Of us at the time knew that the wom-
IN was an impostor, as later devei-
1pments seem to Indicate she is.
She told me She was a sister of
United States Senator Luke Lea, and
! had no way OF knowing she was not
telling the truth. They intrusted me
with the task of making the wedding
public, but later the woman asked
that nothing be said about it, refus-
ng to give any reason. have not
heard from Mr.. Newman since the
marriage. though at that time they
'old me they were going to Jackson-,
Vile.
Newman and his wife came to At
lanta the Tuesday before the wedding
and registered at the Piedmont Hotel,
where they wee seen the next day by
newspaper men. Both were very reti-
cent concerning the facts of their
wedding, but at length consented to
have it made public Neither denied
Al that time the reports that the
woman claimed relationship to Sen
ator Lea, and this detail was also
told Atlantans by friends of Newman,
According to dispatches from Mem
phis, the woman met Newman while
she was staying a d Memphis motel
where she was registered as Miss
Marjorie Lea and posing as sis
Yer Of the United States Senator. She
asked Newman's advice about dis
posing of some property she said she
owned, and their wedding followed
a very brief courtship.