Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-12
THOMAS TAKEN
into CUSTODY
BY OFFICIALS
Charge of Violation of Mann
Act Lodged Against
Him.

baugh, chief of the local bureau Of
department, of justice. today an
nounced that his agents last night
took into custody DR.. VIM. Isaac
Thomas. of the faculty Of the Univer-
sity Of Chicago widely known as an
said to be the wife Of Texas man
now in France with General Persh-
ing.
Mr.. Clabaush said he had turned
over to United States district Attorney
Clyne evidence completely rounded
out for the institution of charges Of
violating the Mann act and the act for
bidding false registration at hotels.
DIR. Thomas and the woman who
Washington D. c., are said in the
data given Mr. Clyne to have register
ed at downtown hotel last night as
man and wife from Gary. Ind. The
alleged expose was due to the fact
that the hotel clerks suspicious were
aroused. He notified MI. Clabaugh
and the latter sent agents who looked
through their luggage.
Both were taken before Mr.. clyne
last night and are quoted as having
attempted little IL any concealment.
According to Mr.. Ciabaug, DR..
Thomas said: ss55sss. a. Z. +
He Loves Her,
II love her and I don't care IL the
whole world knows it. My arrest is a
ltresnendoua injustice.'' ~. ~'e.'. -! Z. !,
Mr.. Ciabaush further quoted the
woman as saying: 'Dr. Thomas was
kind to fne. After my husband left
solicitous for my comfort. just
liked him at first; later it grew into
love- - - f..
! Dr.. Thomas, a man of distinguished d
/; appearance isy55 years Of age, mar
ried. and hAs grown children. Mrs.
Thomas wa1sone OF the founders OF
the Woman's Peace Party. Mrs.
Granger is "a years Of age and has
three-year-old child living with her
mother at Fort Worth, Texas
! /, She said. according to Mr.. Cla-
baugh. that she accompanied her
husband from the training camp at
Fort Worth to New York to say good
bye when he sailed. DR.. Thomas was
in the city to gather material for a
book on Poland. They were intro
duced by Mrs. Granger's sister. The
latter and Mrs. Granger have been
living at South Side family hotel
for about two weeks. At this hostel
~, 1T was said that Mrs. Granger left
suddenly last night in taxicab to
go down town. The sisters name
according to the manager of the no.
tel, is Mrs. Rains.
Is Sociology Lecturer.
| DR.. Thomas for some time wae
much in demand for his lectures on
SOCIOLOGY and the relation Of sex
thereunto. Among his teachings
were: u.
women are better off for having
/ had their fling as men do. Dissipated
women often make excellent wives:
'Chivalry is the persistence OF the
old race habit Of contempt for wom-
en-. ~
ANY girl. mentally mature. has the
right to have children and the right
to limit their number.
THE morality OF women is an ex-
pediency rather. than an innate v1r'
ture.
Marriage as it exists today is rap,
idly approaching form of immorali'
| ty. s.- ( 5.sas !sq p
! "Matrimony is often an arrange,
ment by which the woman trades hel
| lirreproachable conduct for IRE
proachable gowns. ~
children are. not the result ol
marriage: but marriage is the .eesul'
children" ~
| DR.. Thomas and Mrs. Granger thi.
afternoon were examined by the dis
trict, attorney in the presence of al
assistant skilled in Mann act proceed
inEs. They were released on theil
own recognizance.
! ."No action will be taken today.
said District Attorney Clyne. We fee
that we must make additi6nalinvesti
! CATION because Of the fact that ther'
are q number of peculiar angles IL
+; the case; s5Gs x & =,