Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-15
SEARING'S WIFE
HEART-BROKEN
Wife of Contractor Believed
Drowned Collapses in Court,
Withdrawing Suit
THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE
By M'LISS


Events in the Soaring case today moved
swiftly II dramatically following the denti-
flcation yesterday of Frederick Roe Soaring,
former contractor of this city, by his wife,
Mrs. Nancie X Soaring, who, believing her
husband to have been drowned two years
ago at Atlantic City, has been waging
legal battle to recover his insurance-about
$4,000.
Pale. weary and drab. Soaring and Miss
Elizabeth Rendell. his former stenographer,
who. according TO the police, followed him
TO New Orleans after the supposed drown
ing and lived there with him, the both Of
them as Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Reynolds,
appeared in court today for a brief moment.
They clung to each other like bits of human
wrecliage In an unfriendly sea. In default
of bail they were committed to Moya-
mensing on the charge of conspiring to de-
fraud two life insurance companies.
Meanwhile in the Federal Court the wife,
who, until she had the proof OF her own
eyes yesterday, would not believe In her
husbands duplicity, collapsed after the
testimony that the man who was brought
back from the southern city was her hus-
band. Former Judge w. w, Porter, Mrs,
Searing's counsel, stated that in view OF the
Identification Mrs. Soaring wished proper
disposition Of the case and Judge Thomp-
son instructed the jury to render verdict
for the defendants, the Equitable Life In
suranco Company and the Continental Com
pany.
The Rendel girl who lived at 4sO4 wal
ton avenue. seemed as far removed from
the siren type who lure men from their
welded wives as a thrush is from pea
cock, Sallow and seedily attired in drao
suit and a worn old summer hat, the droop-
ing brim Of which almost obscured her
face. the girl peered from behind her
glasses with frightened eyes as she was
brought into the crowded Quarter Sessions
Court . -.
Her siater. Miss May Rendell, with white
face and frightened lips, accompanied the
girl, and later visited her In her cell IN
City Hall,
Soaring stood next to the girl who, ac-
cording to his confession, came TO New
orleans when he wrote her a letter asking
that she follow him. As they were ar
raigned he touched her arm more as II 70
gather comfort than TO give II. He fidgetted
uneasily in baggy suit that seemed three
sizes too large for MN as 'theyE 'ooA nm
back TO his cell ,, ...
The Eternal Triangle Of the novelists, per-
haps, but one with all the sordidness ana
gloom that a heart-broken, too-credulous
wife can impress upon It,
When detectives announced few days
AGO that Soaring had been arrested in New
orleans In company with Miss Elizabeth
Rendeu OF 4904 Walton avenue, who was
his stenographer when he was IN business
In Philadelphia Mrs. Soaring refused TO
believe She thought the detectives were
mistaken. From that time she was under
severe nervous strain and when Soaring was
brought back and she went to City Hail to
see II he really was her husband she rec
oRnized him and the strain was too great.
PAIR BROUGHT TO CITY
Soaring and Miss Rende]l who, accord
ing 10 the detectives, have lived in New
orleans as Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rey-
noids since August, 1915, came here yester-
day in custody OF r. C. Cowan. operative
for the New Orleans branch OF private
detective agency. and Richard Doyle OF ,the
philadelphia Detective Bureau. They were
taken Immediately to cells in City Hall.
First recognition of Soaring took place