New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
Wealthy EIoper Will Deny
He Has Violated White
Slave Law.
PROMINENT LAWYERS
HAVE BEEN RETAINED
Jersey Man Declares he VIII
Marry Miss Bradley When
He Gets Divorce.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune. !

Mobile. Ala. Jan. Joel VI. FOSTER
the wealthy head OF the international
Poultry Farms, of Browns Mills. y. j.
and son of the president Of the lntcrha-
tional Correspondence Schools, Is IN Sc
cluson at the Battle House, iedulns
hotel. tonight. lie spent nearly the en-
tire day with his counsel and they WIZ
fight the case for him TO the fhehesI
courts. and a Philadelphia firm or law
yers. whose names were not learned, VIII
assist I'm his defence. He VIII contehh
that the white slave law has not been Vlo-
lated. as the girl. Miss Delilah Bradley
was not brought away from her home ioi
commercialized vice. Foster IS known 10
have made the statement that II divorce
&c secured he will marry the girl in the
case.
Miss Bradley was showered with tele-
grams from all parts Of the country To-
day. and remained at the fashlohdo'e
Cawthon Hotel until tonight, when she
was told to seek quarters elsewhere one
was seen by the Tribune representative
and stated that she really loved the man
who took her away from her nome, ana
believed ne would remain true to her 10
the end. The girl said that she would
not return to her home in Pemberton,
n. J.. until after the preliminary hear
ing on January Il, before the United
States Commissioner. Richard Jones. Both
she and Foster have promised their at
torneys that they will make no effort to
leave Mobile.
1t developed to-day that Foster had en-
gagged an entire suite of rooms at the
Cawthon Hotel and made arrangements
for the purchase of a piano when the ar
rest came.
The man and woman did not arouse the
least suspicion. and their devotion to eacn
other was noticeable. On the occasion OF
the New Year celebration in Mobile
cafe the girl was a vivacious celebrant.
She Joined the New Years jewellers. and
teased her supposed husband by blow
ing a horn constantly in his ear.
Tie couple, after being in Mobile for
ten DAYS. were Joined here by j. NJ. Ben
der. of Amler. Penn. who was supposed
to nave come from Philadelphia. He was
with them constantly. This friend, ac-
cording to report. told Foster that the ar
rest was going TO take place, and advised
him TO leave the country for South Amer
lea. but Foster and the girl did not heed
his advice. This fact. according to friends
of the couple. whom they made while
here. is evidence that Foster is not going
to turn the girl adrift.
Foster said that his home life was I'M
happy. and that he had begun an acton
for divorce from his wife. who is now
with relatives at Scranton, and that he
would live in Mobile or vicinity the re-
mainder Of his life. He intended TO marry
Miss Bradley as soon as the divorce pro-
ceedings were settled lie read to-day
all the newspaper accounts Of his arrest
and . story from Pemberton. where. it Is
said. A coat OF tar and feathers awaits
him He denied the story that he was in
favor of trial marriages, and asserted
that his intentions with the young woman
were honest
When a dispatch from Pemberton. \. j.
telling of her mothers offer to receive
her back in her home was read to Miss
Bradley to-day she listened with no sign
of emotion. Then she repeated what she
has persistently said to every interviewer
II have nothing to say