Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-09
0RENSTE|N ARRESTED
FOR NEW HAVEN POLICE
Under Indictment for Desertiou O
His Wife and Five
Children.
MRS. ANNA CApLlN ALSO HELD
With Her Two Children, She Is De-
tanned at Police Station, Pending
Investigation of White Slave
ChargeS-Relatives Arc Notified.

Morris II. Orenstcin, a tailor, was
arrested late yesterday afternoon on
warrant charging him with being a
fugitive from justice from New Haven,
conn, where he has been indicted by
a grand jury on Il charge of deserving
his wife and Eve children.
inc detectives arrested Mrs Anna
CaPlin, OF Philadelphia. and charged
her with living with Orcnstcin as man
and wife. She is alleged to have de-
serted her husband in Philadelphia to
run away with Orenstein and to have
. brought her two small children with
her. They were in the house where
the pair were located, and they were
given into the care of a police matron
ut the First Precinct Station, where
the woman was sent pending her ar
! raiSnmcrt in :he Police Court to-day
! Orcnstein is being held at the Second
Station.
Detectives krcngcl and Atkinson
charged the man and woman with
being fuGi,ivcs from tho United States
government. wanted for violation Of
the Mann viii @ slave act. Another
| warrant charged them with livirs to-
%ether as man and wife. and tho third
alleges that they are fuEitivcs from
TIC New ;;'ven authorities.
Mrs. CApLIN CLAIMS
TO he WE'LL CONNECTED
Mrs. Carlir claims to be the daughter
or prominent physician living at
1oi2 Market street, Philadelphia. and
requested that he be notified OF her
pr"dt camcnt ana asked to send for her
children. She said shortly after her
arrest that both she and Orenstein had
intended institutng divorce proceed
inEs, and after they had secured di-
rorces to have been married them
.elFes. However, no such step has
been taken by either party as vet
OrenStein q all
ms wife and children some months ago
ana TO have gone TO Philadelphia There
he met Mrs. Caplin. He came to know
her very well during the few weeks he
lived In Philadelphia. 1t is said and ar
ranged with her that she was to follow
him after he had located home in
| some distant city. The man went to
Norfolk and lived there some weeks.
coming to this city about three months
ago.
JOINED HIM IN NORFOLK
SOME WEEKS AGO
While in Norfolk he wrote Mrs. Can
I'm TO join him, ii is said. and q few
days later she appeared with her two
children. The pair lived together in
the seaside city several weeks, and
then came to Richmond. where they Sc
| cured rooms on East Clay street and
lived as Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Caplin
Neither would say IL this was the name
ol tHt woman y ucScTlcu nuSr1 nd last
night Orcnstein secured work with a
tailor here. and has been employed by
several of them for short spaces OF
time.
When the detectives located them
yesterday they were on the porch Of
their house. krengel addressed tho
man, who had given his name as Cap
lin, as Orenstcn. AT the name both the
man and woman turned pale. Oren-
stein denied II was his name at first,
but later admitted il. The woman
seemed about to go into Mysteries but
recovered herself after n time and
gathered together the few things she
and the children would need while be-
ing held
Both indicated willingness to return
to New Haven without rc0uisition
papers. However. they will he held
here until the government authorities
can investigate thoroughly the white
slave charge against them. Both will
he arraigned in the Police Court this
morning.