The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-07
OUTRAGED WIFE CAUSES
ARREST OF HUSBAND
I. G. Sendnlin, Member OF Norfolk
Police Force, Charged With
Disorderly Conduct.
SHOWS BADGE WHEN ARRESTED
Woman in Whose Room Sendulin Is
Found, Secures Bnil-IIe Is Locked
Up at Station HOUSEWIFE Appear
In Police Court This Morning.


Leaving her two small children In
the care of friends Mrs. I. c. Senda-
lin, wife Of Norfolk police officer.
came to Richmond yesterday and asked
Chief OF Police Werner TO aid her In
locating her husband. She agreed to
swear out warrant for his arrest,
and in spite OF remonstrances. accom-
! panied the officers to an address which
she had furnished them and there To-
Gated the errant husband and person
ATTY saw to his arrest. Margaret
, owens, the woman IN whose room
Sendalin Is said to have been discov-
| cred, was also arrested, and both were
locked up at the First Police sta
tion, charged with disordcrly conduct.
Mrs Sendalin last night tclegraphcd
her father that she had located her
husband. and asked that he send her
Slo with which To return to her home
In Norfolk. She left for her home last
night a man. supposedly the arrest
Cd mans brother. last night wired the
police here for confirmation OF the
story concerning the arrest of Scnda-
I'M This telegram was signed William
Sendalin. and was from the Norfolk
Police Department.
WANTED TO SEE MN
REMOVED FROM FORCE
when she appeared at the Offices of
Chlcf Werner yesterday afternoons
Mrs. Sendalin was told what would be
the effect Of the warrant which she
proposed to swear out against her
husband. She WAS told that il would
probably mean that he would lose his
petition. She said this was exactly
what she desired. and that she had
not been satisfied since he had he
come a police officer.
The woman insisted that If the local
police failed to aid her. she would go
TO the address she had obtained and
would herself get her husband and
the other woman After she had
sworn out the warrant for his arrest.
she persisted In her intention to ac-
company the officers. and was with
Patrolman Tucker when the arrest
was made. Il Is said that she seized
Il broom upon entering the place. and
that considerable strength was re-
CURED to prevent her from using il on
Sendalin.
ordered 10 accompany the officers out
side to the patrol wagon which had
been summoned They did so, and II
was just as he was being ordered 10
enter the wagon that Scndalin flashed
the badge of IL Norfolk policeman The
Richmond police did not know until
that time that he was an officer
BADGE DOES NOT PREVENT
RIDE IN PATROL WAGON
Patrolman Tucker was surprised by
the sight OF the badge, but the situa-
ton did not change. If you we're the
chief OF the Norfolk police. you would
have TO ride in this wagon just the
same tho local officer commented, as
he hustled Sendalin inside.
AT the Police Station, both were
locked in cells, but later In the night
the Owens woman secured bail. She
viii appear in the Police Court this
morning on charge of disorderIy
conduct when Scndalin is arraigncd
OF Il similar charge.
Among the effects taken from the
man and the woman. following their
arrest. were several letters which il
is said had passed between them.
There were several references In them,
1t was said last night. which might
play an important part in the inves-
tigation of the Norfolk Police De-
partment which is now in progress.
According to the story Mrs Sendalin
told Chief Werner, her husband had
followed the Owens woman here from
Norfolk. lie said that he was in
Richmond on his furlough when ques-
toned last night.