Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
TAR AND FEATHERS
AWAITING FOSTER,
JAILED IN SOUTH
Jersey Neighbors of Millionaire
Who Eloped With StenOgra-
pher, Make Dire Threats.
LEFT WIFE And DAUGHTER
FOR GIRL IN HER TEENS
Her Father Is Heartbroken, but
Willing to Welcome Her
Home.

Wllling 10 welcome 7er
Home.
MOBILE. Ala, Jan. 9.-The preiini-
mary hearing of Joel NJ. Foster,
wealthy poultry farmer of Browns
Mills-in- -the-Pines, n. j., who was ar.
rested here Wednesday charged with
violation of the Mann white slave
law, has been set for January il.
Foster has employed two prominent
lawyers of this city to defend him
and it is understood they will invoke
in his case the recent decision OF
Federal judge in Texas, who held
that the intent of the Mann act was
merely to prevent commercialized
vice.
Foster today remained in his room
at a fashionable hotel and refused
to see interviewers. His former stem
ographer. Miss Delilah Bradley. whom
he is charged with having brought
here from New Jersey in violation
of the white slave" law, today left
the hotel where the two were arrest
ed and sought seclusion in private
boarding house.
During their stay at the hotel the
couple were known as Mr.. and Mrs
Foster and obtained entree into So
ciety circles of this city.
When dispatch from Pemberton.
n. J., telling of her mothers offer TO
receive her back in her home was
read to Miss Bradley today she lis
tened with no sign of emotion. Then
she repeated what she has persistent-
ly said to every interviewer:
Il have nothing to say"
BURLINGTON. Jan. s.-Feeiing
runs high here today over the news
from Mobile, Ala. that Joel NJ. Fos-
ter. jr., millionaire poultryman. Of
Browns Mills i'm the Pines. has been
captured there with Miss Deiilah
Bradley. seventeen-year- girl.
with whom he fled. leaving a wife
ar d two children. There Is talk OF
tar and feathers. and it is feared that
Foster will be coated with them as
soon as he is brought back.
When the news was received
spread like wildfire and angry cit5-
zens were soon congregated in groups.
loud in their denunciation OF Foster.
who. the dispatches say. Is held un-
der a charge of violating the Mann
RJet.,sThe girl, whose home is at Penss.
berton. is held as witness against
him
Taught in Sunday school.
Foster was formerly head OF the
international Poultry Sales Company
at Browns Mills Miss Bradley was
his stenographer. She WIS regarded
as one of the prettiest girls in this
section. She was a member OF the
Pemberton Methodist Church and
taught in its SUNDAY school. Her
father, Henry c. Bradley. is Penn
sylvania Railroad baggage master.
Miss Bradley disappeared December
IA. Four days afterward Foster drew
5000 from a bank and went away
and nothing was heard Of him by the
townspeople until the news of his
arrest arrived.
Foster. who is forty. is the son Of
T J. Foster. head of the Interna-
tional CORRESPONDENCE Schools at
Scranton. Pa. The deserted wife and
sixteen-year- daughter of Foster
are now at the home of the latter's
father in <cranton-
Father Heartbroken.
The father of Miss Bradley IL
heartbroken over his daughters es-
capade, but says he will receive her
with open arms If she returns home.
He has not instituted proceedings
against Foster. but this was ex-
planned by the statement that the
/ federal authorities have preferred to
handle the case under the white
slave" act.
Her mother said today that her
daughter could come home and live
as she did before she went away I'VE
| will forget her absence and help her
to forget IT," the mother said She
is an innocent, trusting girl. Her life
! has been spent among persons upon
whom she relied for protection"
| Since December % Foster and the
girl have been registered at one OF
Mobiles best hotels as Mr.. and Mrs.
J. NJ. Foster, New York.
Talked in Millions.
Foster ingratiated himself with the
business men. He talked in millions
and spoke of building a large sana-
torium there, in which Theodore
Shonts would be interested. He spent
money lavishly.
Dispatches received by the Mobile
federal officials on Wednesday from
New Jersey brought matters to q
climax. Foster and the girl were
seized in the hotel and arraigned be-
fore Commissioner Richard Jones, 5r.
Foster was held in 5000 bail tor
hearing on January IA and the girl in
$500
They were permitted to go TO sepa-
rate hotels under guard. They see
one another only in the parlors OF the
hotels and always with a representa-
tive of the government present 70
prevent any secret conversation.
Before the arrest of Foster and the
girl II generally was believed she
was at least twenty years old. She
was dressed to make herself look
older than her real age.
A few years ago, according TO re-
port, Foster eloped with a young girl
from Philadelphia while managing q
chicken farm of the international
Correspondence School at Rancocas.
near here They were captured in
Albany. where the girl in the case
ran down and killed boy with the
automobile she was driving.
Father May Not Aid.
SCRANTON, Pa. Jan. 9.-WheL
told of the arrest yesterday OF his son.
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