Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-04
FRJCAR AND FIANCEE
NOT TO WE'D in HURRY
Man Acquitted After Staying
Boland Will Remain Single
Several Months
GIRLS MOTHER TALKS
Miss Sykes May Complete Nurses
Training Course Before Mar
riage, Parent Says

,uus II Frigar and Miss Amanda Sykes
II, ,ot he married for several months,
!, was declared today by Mrs +. u. sykes.
o-i, North Park avenue. She said there
u,ore no definite plans for the wedding
~ her daughter and the man who was
.oo,i,ted last night of the murder Of Ed
,,ard Boland last August in Paramount
park II had been intimated by Congress-
,,or Iobn r. X Scott. in his plea to the
,,,r,, for n verdict for Frigar. that the two
,,,ou,d he married almost at once, if he
was set free.
"Tbeir intentions are just what they have
boon since they became engaged said
Mr. sykes but they are not going to be
n,arricd today nor in a few days. My
1,ugbter has still nine or ten months of the
,,oirinp course at jefferson Hospital to
comnlete, and it may he that she will not
he married until them
Miss sykes went to her parents home
With her mother after the jury brought in
tho verdict in the Court of oyer and Ter
n,i,er last night and her flancc left court
with his father John Frigar. Miss Sykes
nas downtown on business this morning.
friends of Frigar say he has left the city
for several days for rest.
After the trial neither Frigar nor his
6ancee would make any statement relative
IN the acuuittal. which established probably
a record for speed in this city for capital
cases, In freeing him the jury deliberated
only nineteen minutes.
dramatic scenes were witnessed in the
Court of oyer and Terminer both before
and after the acquittal. Hardly had the
words mot guilty fallen from the lips of
Frank Lenoir, foreman of the jury. than the
room rang with cheers and applause and the
young engineer was showered with con-
gratulations
Among those who congratulated Miss
Sykes were Mrs Vessel and Miss Dorothy
Vessel the wife and daughter of the judge
before whom the trial was conducted.
APPLAUSE SUBSIDIES
The applause died away instantly. as
many persons realized that their emotional
display had fractured court etiquette. But
no sooner had the courtroom come to an
other hush before an aged man. the tears
etreamng down his cheeks. arose from his
seat Just behind Mrs. Vessel and impulsively
rushed toward the place where the twenty
three-year-old s.ayer sat with his counsel
The defendant flung his arms about him
The man was John Frigar, father of the
youth tried for his life. Parent and son
embraced each other.
The instant that the lad was freed from
this embrace he squared his shoulders and
walked straight to the seat where Miss
Amanda Sykes, his fiancee, to save whom
he contended that he killed Boland, was
sitting with her father and sister. They
kissed each other, oblivious of Judge. court.
room and jury.
JUDGES WIFE CONCENTRATES
The moment that Miss Sykes was at lib
<rty the feminine spectators crowded about
! BIER to offer their congratulations. The
| Judges wife and daughter were in the var
of this rush, and they shook hands fervently
with the blushingy happy girl.
Frigar. too. was surrounded by a joyous
knot of relatives and friends and he shook
hands fervently with his brother and others
He glded away from this congratuatorS
crowd as speedily as POSSIBLE to rejoin his
fancee and they stood together. laughing
and talking happily. while the men anc
women of mature years nodded their heads
In satisfaction.