The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-16
SHAW FAILS TO GET
HELP OF SLAVE LAW
L. s. Attorney Tells Banker
Mann Act Doesn't Apply
to Darling's Case.
HUNTS MRS.SHAW IN HOTEL
Acme Safe Company Head In
vites Arrest-Husband
Wants Wife Back.

Robert Marsden Shaw, the young banker
and broker whois suing for $50. 900 damages
fr'om Richard Darling. president of the
Acme Sanitary Safe Company Of 2os
Broadway, for alternating the affections
Of his eighteen-year-old wife. Mrs.
Katherine Lyall Shaw. tried to induce
tho United States Attorneys office TO pro-
coed against Darling yesterday under the
Mann white slave act on the ground that
Darling brought Mrs Shaw from New
Jersey TO New York for an immoral
purpose.
The complaint was referred 20 Assistant
United States Attorney Harold A. Content
who told Joseph A. Shay. counsel for
Shaw. that the Department OF Justice
co,fd not proceed under a state of facts
such as was set forth IN Shaw's charges
until after the United States Supreme Court
has passed on the Digs. Caminetti and
Jack Johnson caseS. since certain Federal
, Judges have held that the Mann act ap-
plies only TO comlner'talized vice and for
this reason there IN conflict OF opinion In
the lower Federal courts.
When told OF the effort TO get n warrant
for him. Darling said yesterday at his
office Il was sure that none would be
issued. but anyway I wasn't running
away. Shawl find me right here IN
New York AT my office II he wants to
arrest me later"
| Lawyer shay told yesterday OF in
formation gained personally by Shaw on
Wednesday night as 10 wherc his wife IL
nov. lie found that she had registered
under her own name at the Hotel An
| sonia which IS Just across the way from
barlingS apartments ut "31 West seven
| ty-fourth street. Shaw says he got in
| formation which led him to hire "A room
across the corridor from his wife's room
I and awaited Developments. Nobody came
out and finally he looked through the
| cracks In the door and found the room
dark. He went TO the house detective
! ana demanded admission. bu; the detec-
| tive, backed M by the manager refused
\ 10 let him enter the room. He said he
4 was permitted To enter this morning after
his wife mad left
Darling said yesterday that the state
| ments concerning him We're all lies and
that ne had no idea where Mrs. shaw Is
| staying now. He said he got tired OF be-
| Ing bounded by detectives, so he made an
! arSolntment to see Mrs. shaw and her
mother 10 try to put and end 10 1t. He
said he has no affection for Mrs. Shaw
! and that she IL only girl who has been
I much abused by her husband His attor-
ney fled a notice Of appearance for him
yesterday and demanded to know Shaw =
address NO that he can compel Shaw 20
! put up 4 $3.50 bond In case he admits he
lives in New Jersey.
Joseph A. Shay. counsel for Shaw. said
yesterday that Darling and Mrs Shaw
were together few days ago at the
oiedney Farms Hotel in Westchester
county, where Mrs. Shaw posed as the
married sister OF Darling.
| mo steps will be taken by Shaw TO get
! a divorce right away" said Mr.. Shay. lie
realizes that his wife is young and that
she Is being made a plaything He would
be willing tn take her back or put her in
| the care OF her mother, He thinks she
was led astray by the lure of excitement
! and because Of her uncomfortable desire
, for haNtery"