The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-16
James F. Callahan Locked
Up in Houston House,
Says Sheriff Green.
AVOIDING SERVICE
IN $200, 900, SUIT
Clifford Merritt Says Man
Offered Spouse Million
to Run Away.

III
100000 alienation Of affection suit.
james +. Callahan. multi millionaire
mine owner of Wallace, III either hid
ing In the apartment OF Harvey A.
Houston, 400 Grand street, or fleeing
beyond reach of Sheriff James r.
Green.
Callahan's friends said last night
that the millionaire had ESCAPED de-
spite the three officers who stood
guard around the apartment house,
The deputy sheriffs watching the
place said at 3 o'clock this morning
Callahan had not so much a. stuck his
head out OF a window and that beyond
question he was In the apartment.
Only Two Ways out.
Houston, who is a friend OF Gala
hans lives In a second story fiat In
what In known az the Unlvefnitv
Apartments, opposite the county htgh
school. Exit In possible only By fsont
or rear and three deputies have been
constantly ON guard, waiting 70 serve
upon the millionaire papers netlfyrsHE
him of the suit for damneos bfonehe
by Clifford Merritt OF WAllaee Who
says that Callahan stole his wife ~
offering her more than million" IL
leave and divorce him.
"iri stay TinI p,s."
"i'll stay here TIL die, II nccessary..
Callahan is said to have shouted nA
the officers He IL making good, they
say They deny the repeated aaser.
tions of the mining mans friends TINT
he has escaped them.
Says Millions oroks up Hor,..
The glitter of the Callahan millions
broke up the Merritt home. the ii.
vorced husband declares In the com
plant which he filed IN tho dlstrfft
court yesterday afternoon. Until Gaia.
han appeared Merritt and his n~eft$
wife lived happily together. They were
married In SturHIs 3. r., on October
70. 1907. More than six years passed
before there was any trouble. Merritt
AYERS
1t was on January /, 1914. that thc
millionaire mining man began his WOO
ing. says the complaint Callahan
pretended that he did love and admire"
Mrs. Merritt and that merritt -vas
too poor and 80 financially embarrassed
'ha' she wouh always live In poverty"
Promised Her Million.
Moreover. Merritt declares, Callahan
told the woman that II she would d.
vorce her husband and marry him he
would give her more than $1,000. 900.
On September II. according to the
complaint. Mrs. Merritt left her nus
band and subsequently secured n til.
voree from him. Later she married
Callahan.
Wants 100000 Damages.
At that time Merritt believes Calm
han was worth s2.oO0,00O. Since then.
he Thinks the mining mans wealth has
grown to more than $4,000, 900, The
money. he says. was responsible for
Gaitahan's success IN his clandaatins-
wooing and for that reason he asks
the court to inflict punitive damages
upon the mining man In the sum 5,f
sloO.0eo. As balm for his own feelings
Merritt asks another 100000. He II
represented by Frederick W. Dewnr,
OF Spokane and Harry II. Parsons NJ
Missoula,
Tangled Story Of Scandals
The Mitchell suit is a new chapter
IN the sensational matrimonial history
OF the mining king, James r. Callahan.
Not long after marrying Mrs. Merritt
Callahan decided TO divorce her and
began an action which has stirred nm
scandaious charges of conspiracy
against the woman for whose love ne
Is said to have offered a million,
Mrs Merritt Callahan. in response
to her second husbands suit. has de-
clared that the man manufactured thu
evidence upon which he seeks divorce
with the aid of Spokane attorneys and
burns detectives. Her story. briefly. is.
this:
Private Secretary htsad to 0ianpa.
Callahan did not marry her nnfii
frightened by warnings Of isnperainc
, prosecution under the white slave law.
And he had not long been her husband
before Frank Boptin. his private s<,cre.
tary and most influentiaI associate he
gan trying to break up. the moyriaee
boutin finally convinced Callahan. the
woman says, that Mrs. Callahan vas
not fit wife. The mining man .heu
took the matter to the firm OF Nuxunn.
ozark 4 Nuzum Of Spokane. who a.
lvised HIN. the woman says, to emnloy
q detective to secure evidence upou
(which divorce suit might u base1
Callahan thereupen ennpaovea ~
Burns detectives. Ma cAllAAamS -
said under oath. and made one oestha