Putnam patriot., 1914-07-24
WRONGFUL SUSPICION
Frederick Darmer Did Not Hope With
 Thirteen Year-OId Gladys Chase
They Disappeared st Same Time But Not
 Together

Somewhat of a sensation was caused in Putnam Saturday when II was learned that the Boston police depart ment had requested the Putnam police to arrest Frederick W. Darmer, form erly of this city, who was on visit here. The Boston officers stated that they l cid a warrent for the young mans arrest charging him with frau dulently enticing Gladys Chase, a Dor chester girl of l3 years, away from her home for immoral purposes. The ofli- cers of three states, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, were appealed to to locate the pair. Cap. tain Murray notified the Boston police department that Darmer had been here and gone but that there was no girl with him. He subsequently, re- ceived telegram telling him not to arrest Darmer unless accompanied by the girl The girl was found Sunday at the home of her chum where she had gone without letting her parents know of her whereabouts. Darmer | left home about the same time and sent letter to his mother telling her not to worry and that Gladys was not with him. As 1t turned out the young man was apparently the victim of cir | cumstances.
 According to the story from Boston the l3-year old Chase sgirl disappeared l from her home in Dorchester. Darmer
 had known her for eight years,s must | have known her either in Putnam or Danielson, and he disappeared about the same time Wednesday afternoon so an elopement was immediately sus- pected. Later Darmer returned to the | girls home and asked to see her and | when informed of her disappearance | set out to search for her. He returned again and spent the night at her home. Thursday Darmer left the house short ly after the police arrived in response | to a summons to find the missing girl.
 Suspicion was strengthened in the eyes of the police by letter Darmer
 wrote his mother rom Boston which
 said:
 Dear Mother 1 am going away.
 Don't worry. l am not with Gladys.
 Darmer arrived in Putnam soma
 time Thursday and was about town
 with some of his former young com
 panions. To them he told of being in
 search of girl who had disappeared from her home. He spent the night at the Putnam Inn and his name ap-
 pears on the register there. The clerk
 says that Darmer was alone and he
 had no reason to believe that anyone
 occupied the room with the young
 man. It WAS said that some one saw
 Darmef with young light haired boy
 and it was thought at the time that
 perhaps if the girl was with him she
 was masquerading as boy, but the
 employees at the hotel were positive 1 that he occupied his room salone. He
 paid for his room Friday morning and l did not return. At local news store a clerk who knew Darmer when he lived here, stated that he came into the store after nine o'clock and looked at all of the Boston papers. When he saw the article stating that he was un- der suspicion of having eioped with the Chase girl he grabbed up the whole l pile of papers and threw them down l forcibly to the accompaniment of some 1 strong language. He then grabbed up his bag and hurried 10 the station.
 While in Putnam Darmer sent a special delivery letter to Mrs. Leon l Adams, a sister of the Chase girl. The communication was addressed "Dear Mrs. Leon Hope Adams" and the fact 1 that Darmer did not know her by her given name of Hope led her to believe that Gladys WAS with Darmer. Oar mer said in the letter that he saw in a Boston paper statement by Mrs. | Adams that he went away with the girl which charge he denied. "Great God, " he wrote, "what do you think am, a fool? Do you think l would take little girl eight years younger than myself away from her home?' 1 He said he would do all in his power to find the girl. Darmer also wrote other letters to his mother and to a Boston paper denying that he knew anything about the girls whereabouts. 1 When the Chase girl was found at the home of her chum the whole matter