Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-25
MRS. HOOD SHIELDS HER
SADDLE-COLORED MATE
She Loved Mulatto for Years
and Furnished Money for
ElOpement

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Charging that Mrs Viola Hood, hand
some wife of San Diego hotel man
inudced him to elope with her, Ray
mond Dodds, negro, surrendered him
self to the police here today. Soon af-
terward. Mrs. Hool Walked into police
headquarters.
According to the police Mrs. Hood
thereup0n verified the negro s story,
and confessed that ne had not threat
ened her, though she had sent her hus-
band messages saying the negro had
declared he would kill OF harm her.
Dodds told the police taat he had
decided to give himself up after seeing
in the newspapers that Mrs. Hood s
husband and the police of southern Cal
ifornia were seeking him. He declared
that he had parted with Mrs. Hood last
night after arriving here. They had
registered at cheap rooming house,
but he compelled her to leave it, he
said, when he found it was Tim
moral.
"We have been pretty close friends
for a year" said the negro who had
been in the employ of the Hoods as
chauffeur. "She wanted me to skip
with her several times. thought Of
leaving her to keep out of trouble, but
every time she wopld put her arms
around me, and cry; and ask me to stay.
L couldn't leave At last we decided
to skip, so we came here, and then
she decided that she wanted to return
to San Diego.
Aim To Get Married.
=" We were going to get married here
and continue to Chicago.
"She changed her mind, and wished
to wire her mcthcr ter return ticket
to San Diego"
The woman, who entered the police
station soon after Dodds, verified the
entire story according to the police,
and said that the negro had not threat.
ened her. She declared she would re-.
turn to San Diego if Dodds were per
mitted to go on to Chicago.
1t is likely, however, that the police
will hold him on white slave charge.
She declared, according tothe police,
that she left her husband because she
was in love with Dodds.
Dodds claimed he and Mrs. Hood had
been close friends a little over nine
months. He declared he was attracted
to her, and that the attraction seemed
to be mutual. Their relations, he added,
were not suspected by Hood, and Dodd s
presence near Mrs Hood could always
be explained by his employment as
porter houseman and chauffeur.
Woman Threatened Suicide.
The negro declared they had dis.
cussed their future many times, and he
had declared il would be an easy mat.
ter to quit his wife, If Mrs. Hood would
leave her husband. Several times, he
said, he had tried to leave Mrs. Hood,
but she had threatened suicide and
each time he had acceded to her wishes.
They finally agreed, he said, to elope
and be married in another state under
an assumed name,
"We made up our minds to 20 to
Chicago" he said "and she furnished
the money. We went from San Diego
to Los Angeles, and there we bought
tickets to Salt Lake City, with money
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