The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-01
AGE OF CONSENT
VIOLATED, CLAIM
Serious Charge Registered
gainst R. N. Foust
Saturday.
YOUNG GIRL VICTIM
Girls Father Comes to Chat
tanooga to Investigate.
Arrest Follows.

On a charge of violating the age OF
consent law with pretty Flossie Jor-
Gan. Of SMART Station, as the victim
l r. NJ. Foust, a barber, arrested Satur-
II cay bv Detectives Ray Bryan and
Jack Neil, awaits preliminary trial in
police court Teusday morning.
Foust was Jailed following an in
Nyestigation by j. II. Jordan, the girls
i father, and Bryan and Neil.
1t developed that Flossie, Jordan
Il whose social sphere had been con-
fined, to the community in which she
lived correspondent with a boy of her
] home who was in the army on the
H Mexican border.
According to the information in the
Il hands of the plainclothes men. this
| boy friend met Foust, who was also
\ in the army, and gave Foust Miss
II Jopdans address.
i They became acquainted through
| correspondence.
| When Foust returned from the
/ army the girl was staying with rela-
II tives at WhiteSide. He called on her,
II 1t is charged that he protested love
/ end affection and promised to marry
i hcr. ..
H It was stated by one of the plain
i clothes men that they learned that
/ Foust went to Whiteside last Mon
| day. brought Miss Jordan to CHAT
II +anooga and took her to roominE
! house where they registered as man
| and wife.
Father Makes Search.
Her father, J. II. Jordan. became
uneasy, maze a trip to this city,
4 Hunted up his daughter and talked
| n her about the matter, She told him
\ they were married. but, as she was
not acquainted with the city. she
| could not say where the wedding took
Dplace.
Asked where the license was pro-
cured, she told her father, the plain
clothes man stated, that it was got
len at the courthouse, The father
found upon making inquiry at the
courthouse, that no license had been
issued there.
He then went to Foust who is said
10 have told him that a preacher
married them. Asked for the license.
Foust, the detectives were told, SAID
the document was in his coat. The
girls father was insistent ana When
the coat was searched a license was
nfC0ufpu Dul II lldu bNNh i'''NN ~
Texas and had nJtling to do with
the case of his daughter.
This license. which bore the seal
and appeared to be genuine, was
claimed by Foust to be fake. He told
the detectives, Officer Bryan stated
that he used it to get by the military
police.
The detectives, getting this far on
the case, questioned Miss Jordan, who
broke down and confessed that she
was not married to Foust. She told
pathetic story of how she had been
wronged by Foust.
Claimed Marriage.
F'oust was then questioned by
Bryan and Neil, and claimed that nc
married a girl in Knoxville. When
further pressed at the room OF MISS
Jordan he admitted that he had not
married her because she was unaer
age He offered to marry her If her
father would go with him to the
courthouse for the license. He de-
MED that he had been staying Win
her, but her story put the stamp OF
denial on this statement of his.
The girls father broke down and
SODDed Wnen ne ledrHeu VIC 'i"O S'd'
of affairs. His grief was pathetic
His daughter was held by the de-
tectives for him. After the hearing
of F'oust in police court Tuesday Miss
Jordan will be turned over 10 her
father and taken home.
Immediately after the police court
trial, Detectives Bryan and Neil will
take Foust before the grand jury,
where they will present the evidence