Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-29
Mrs. Edward Rhynata Found To
Be Runaway Hunted Over
U. S. for Two Years.
HELD FOR HER PARENTS
Declares She viii Not Return
Home-Loves Man Accused
as Bank Robber,

A two-year hunt for Edith Car
baugh, who ran away from her home
in Piqua, Ohio, in February Of 1912 to
go on the stage. came to an end in
Atlanta late Saturday afternoon,
when detectives learned that the
missing girl is the wife Of Edward
Marshall, alias Edward Rhynata. who
is held in the Fulton County Tower
under bonds of $4,000, charged with
the robbery of the Jefferson Loan So
ciety on Forsyth street and the at
tempted holdup Of the Atlanta State
Savings Bank on Auburn avenue.
The discovery that the woman
known as Mrs. Rhynata is the miss
Ing Miss Carbaugh. who has been
searched for by police OF almost
every city in the United States, fol-
lowed the receipt OF letter by Chief
Of Police Beavers from Frank Gehle,
chief Of police Of piqua, in which the
local authorities were asked to in
vestigate Rhynata and the woman
known as his wife.
Admits She Is Girl Hunted.
Confronted with the letter, Mrs
Rhynata broke down and admitted
that she was the missing girl The
letter written by Chief Gehle asked
that the woman. If she proved to be
the missing girl, be held until he
could be heard from, and Chief Beav-
ers ordered her locked up in the ma
irons ward at headquarters. The
girl became hystericaT when she
learned that she was to be detained.
and declared that she would not re-
turn to her home.
II want to stay here with my hus-
band" she cried. Il will not go home.
and if I'm sent there by force I'll run
away and come back to Atlanta as
soon as can get away. I'm going to
stand by my husband until death, for
love him and / know he is innocent
of any crime"
The girl Historically declared that
If she was sent back to Piqua she
would be such little devil" her par
ents would be glad to get rid of her.
Chief Gehle, of Piqua. in his letter
to Chief Beavers, Aaid he had read
the newspaper accounts of the arrest
of Marshall, or Rhynata. and said also
that the actors wife answered the de-
scription OF the missing Carbaugh
girl. He said that in 1912 a vaude-
Vile actor came to Piaua and mar
ried woman named Hahn
Took Girl With Them.
on February 10, 1912, the pair left,
taking with them Edith carbaugh.
The Humane Society of Piqua and
the parents of the girl have searched
for her since, without success. The
girl was y years old when she ran
away.
Chief Gehle wrote that the actor
who ran away with the girl is sup
posed by her parents and the Piqua
authorities to have separated from
his wife and to be living with the
Carbaugh girl. The missing girls ia
Their. the letter states, is d. c. Car
baugh, a well-known resident Of
Piqua.
Mrs. Rhynata told Chief Beavers.
when she was shown the letter, that
she knew nothing Of the Hahn wom-
an. She said also that she was mar
ried to Marshall, or Rhynata, but she
refused to tell when and where the
marriage occurred When he was ar
rested after the attempted burglary
OF the bank on Auburn avenue. Rhy-
nata told newspaper men that he was
to the girl on February 81,
1918, in Chicago.
The woman was found by Detec-
tives Chewing and sturdivant at her
room at No. 80 williams street late
Saturday afternoon. half an hour aft
err she had returned from the Tower,
where she visited Marshall