The Washington times., 1914-01-22
DELILAH BRADLEY
! ON HUNGER STRIKE
Girl Says She Will StarVe Her.
self If Parents Keep Her
Away From Foster.

PEMBERTON, y. J., Jan. 22-Delilah
bradley, the siXteen-year-old stenogra-
rher brought back to her home here
alter her elOpement to Mobile, Ala,
with Joel NJ Foster, New Jersey mil
nonaire poultryman, today announced a
hunger strike as the next step in her
resistance to both her family and the
law for taking her from the man she
loves.
The hysteria and pleading of the girl
gave way today to an outburst of bit
ter Genunciation when breakfast was
brought to her room and she cried out:
Il shall sIarve myself to death if 1 am
not given my liberty and allowed to
return to the man 1 love" She said
she had been forced against her will
tc return to this cold, dreary town."
and that her only home was with FOs-
ter. The girls brother, Charles, refused
TO say what he would do to Foster if
he came to PembertOn, but merely told
friends to wait and see.
Foster In New York.
Detectives employed b. the girls
father to bring her back from the Wind
sor Hotel, in Philadelphia, announced
today that all arrangements have been
made to arrest Foster the moment he
sets foot in New Jersey.
Foster is in New York.
In the little parlor of her fathers
home Miss Bradley repeated her VOW of
loyalty to Foster, despite the objections
and pleadings of her parents. Bradley,
apparently suffering from the strain he
has undergone since his daughter
glOnpmpnT when she
peated her declarations Of love for her
former employer.
Miss Bradleys pretty face was tear
stained as she told of her love. Her
voice, however, did not quiver, and
when she had finished she walked de-
family from the room.
81 Love Him, Love Him.
'T love Mr.. Foster as much as ever"
she said, and 1 want the whole world
TO know it, I know he VIII get a di-
vorce. Then 1 will marry him and he
will take me away from here. They
dragged me from him by force in Mo-
bile. My family kept me confined in
that hotel in Philadelphia against my
viii. They dragged me down here and
detectives pulled me from the automo-
bile and dragged me into this house.
But I love him as much as ever.
Put that in the papers and let every
one know Nothing can make me
change my mind. 1 intend to go back
TO him, no matter what happens. 1
want to go back TO him. AS soon as
he gets a divorce will marry him"
Several times during the course of the
young woman's story her father inter
rupted. He told her the folly of her
love. pointed out the suffering Of FOs-
ters wife and seventeen-year-Old
daughter, the grief of her own parents,
and the vast difference in her age and
that Of the man she has chosen to love,
despite her parents. The fathers plead
ing was futile. The girls eyes flashed,
and merely answering Il love him. she
walked from the room
Warns of Warrant.
Mr.. Bradley declared last night that
II Foster enters New Jersey a warrant
for his arrest charging him with
statutory offense will be issued by
Samuel Atkinson, prosecutor Of Bur-
lington county, in which Pemberton is
located.
The Rev. Newton Nelson, rector of
the Methodist Church, where she was a
Sunday school teacher, has declared
that the young woman need not fear
that her friends have turned against
her.
Detective George Tate. who accom-
panied the girl to PembertOn, Conversed
with her during the ride. Tate said
later that to him she declared that she
would return to Foster despite any
move her parents may take