The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-03
MARRIED MAN
RUNS AWAY WITH.
MU||,S|IK|!'0|.GEE Us k / GIRL.
III. C. MORGAN AND DAUGH-
TER OF SEN. GARRETT
FIGURE IN SCANDAL

Tulsa, July S.-H. C. Morgan, for
ten years prominent real estate
dealer OF Muskogee, last night told a
story from a cell in the city Jail,
which will, If corroborated, blight the
social career of Miss Edna Garrett,
daughter OF Wallace Garrett of Mus
kogee, and said to be prominent in
high society circles of her home
town
Morgan and Miss Garrett were ar
rested yesterday afternoon at the
Alexander hotel on South Boston,
where they were registered as man
and wife under the name of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. c. Chaplin, by Detective Jim
Patton, after message received by
Chief of Police Foster Burns from
Sheriff Bailey of Muskogee, told that
they were wanted there on a charge
of adultery, the warrant having been
sworn to by Mrs Ill. C. Morgan, wife
of the man now held here. Morgan
and his temporary wife" will leave
Tulsa this morning for Muskogee in
the custody of officers.
The Garrett woman is about twen-
ty-siN years old. She is unusually
pretty and attractive and highly ed
ucated. For two years. according to
a story told by Morgan last night, she
has been In his employ as stenog-
rapher.
Like a S. 8. Teacher.
Although wearing expensive clothes
and giving the appearance of wom-
an who might be either suffraget
leader or a Sunday school teacher,
Miss Garrett was confined in the
women's cell-dirty, dingy and grimy
as it Is, with another woman-whose
character police say. is not the best
-dS uer Only ctllludlc
81 don't know what l have been ar
rested for" she told a reporter. She
didn't know she was talking to a re,
ported and until it dawned on her she
talked freely She said that she
came here the first Of the week on a
visit and that her father, Wallace
Garrett, was a well known loan man
Of Muskogee. He formerly was in
the mercantile business In small
Oklahoma town near Muskogee.
please don't print anything about
me-" pleaded Miss Garrett. tits not
for my sake, but for my poor moth
er, She'll never get over it,
Morgan did not attempt to hide his
relations with his stenographer
I'll came over to Tulsa the first Of
the week on business" he said. Lat
err my stenographer came here to
bring some papers to me. Then ]
decided to put on show 1t was
iust case of man having a good
time and playing unlucky."
Morgan Is Married.
"Is she your wife?p he was asked.
mo, sir, she is not However, y
am married and my wife Is at ilsme
in Muskogee." NT"b
A lawyer came with Sheriff Baffey
from Muskogee and 1t Is understood
will defend the real estate dealer.
Morgan did not appear to be in the
least perturbed. He admitted his
illicit relations with the Garrs.t
woman.
When the Muskogee sheriff ar
rived with the papers for the couple
and which showed that they were
wanted on an adultery charge, Miss
Garrett was informed OF the charge.
Previously she had refused to talk
about her arrest, as she maintained
she did not know the charge against
her. When informed of the formal
charge she Indignantly denied that
she was guilty.
Related to Senator?
why, of course | didn't do such
thing" she said. She was sitting on
a prisoner bed several feet from the
floor of the cell Alongside her sat
another poorly clad and who
brazenly declared that she. wouldn
care for a little thing like being ar
rested for adultery-the very thing
which was so deeply worrying her
woman companion.
According to INFORMATION received
last nfght Miss Garrett is a niece of
former State Senator Garrett, of Ok
lahoma. Never at any time would
Miss Garrett admit of misconduct
with her employer However, she
found it difficult to explain her visit
to Tulsa simultaneously with that OF
Morgan.