New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
Romance on
Dads $4,000
Ends i'm Court
Bessie Endner and Two Bow
Companions Are Held
for Robbing of Safe
Father Prefers Charges
Nhidi SCo
Bought Auto and Fine New
Clothes on $4,000 Ten
Day Trip Through State

Details of Happy" William Johns
toms flight through the state with his
sixteen -year-old sweetheart, Bessie
Endner. William Sutton, the seventeen
"year-old adviser" and $4,000 in
bank notes, became matter of court
record in Brooklyn yesterday. The
girls father, Alfred M. Endner, pros
porous spar and derrick manufacturer,
appeared as complainant The $4,000
was taken from his safe.
The unromantic denouement to their
ten-day junket was a gloomy all-night
ride from Poughkeepsie with Detectives
Croak and Carberry. of Brooklyn as
travelling companlons. Then followed
an hour and half's wait in cells at
Brooklyn Police Headquarters.
The three were arraigned before
Magistrate O'Neill, in the Fifth Ave
nue. Police Court, at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning.
The girls father, who lives at SAT
the charge Of burglary against all
three. Bessie, as she is known. al
though her full name is Sarah Eliza
beth Endner, admitted that she, accom-
panied by the two boys, opened the
safe in her fathers office. at Otsego
and Beard Street, Brooklyn, on the
night of February 4. The $4,000 was
IN money compartment in the safe,
waiting for use the next day on the
Endner payroll.
Boys Face Abduction Charge
Bessie still wore the fine fur coat
she paid 5000 for upstate. She waived
examination and was held under $500
bail. Johnston was held under bail of
& Il ko;1
5000. In addition to the burglary
charge. both boys lace charge of ab-
duction.
Bessie wore a blue straw hat, a new
serge suit of the same color and patent
leather shoes with white tops. These
new clothes, together with coats, shoes
and suits for the boys and four-pas-
senger motor car, were purchased with
part Of the $4,000 iR various towns
through which the runaways passed.
They spent $4,000 in all. The rest of
the money was recovered when they
were arrested.
The girl answered the few questions
Magistrate O'Ncill put to her in a firm
voice. When the hearing ended she
wept- Endner, who is i'll. had to be |
helped into the courtroom. He stared !
at his daughter through the brief pro
ceedings. When they ended and the |
ZION by the grand jury he furnished
pail for Bessie and took her home The
boys were unable to furnish bail and
were sent to Raymond Street Jail.
Years Love Affair
Efforts to obtain details OF the run
away at the Endner home, where the
shades were drawn, were fruitless. But
pack pack OF the flight which ended in
Poughkeepsie Saturday night is a bov
and girl love affair, which has lasted
more than year, William Johnston.
"Happy's' aged grandfather, told news
paper men last night
William is a good boy said John
sfon in his fiat at 427 Seventh Avenue.
lust around the corner from the End
ner home. 81 don't know what will hap
pen now. But this has been going on
maybe.
They love each other, I know that.
Why, night after night I'd call down
the stairway to the front hallway
where they used to sit after the NOV /
les' and say; IF YOU don't go home.
BESSIE; III tell your dad And I'd have
20 yank lille upstairs.
the girl came here often Put
Willie never went to their house
suppose they didn't want Willie for a
son-ln- law. He's poor. but he's got
ambition. One day we wrote Mrs. End |
ner and asked her Why Willie couldn't
visit there. although her girl came here
lots Maybe we're dom something
wrong ''o ~rote, by allowing this to
20 on II YOU don't like Willie vel |
stop IT, She answered and thanked us
lor the Information And then for
aoout two weeks Bessie wasn't per
mltted TO leave her house.
Father Upholds Son
hen one night my wife and saw
mem together on the street. There
wasnt amy, use trying to keep them
apart And so its been going on. She
Vas lnfatuated with Wiliie. Why. he
hasn worked for about eight months
because he's been thinking about her
she even used TO give him money. f Sbe
wrote one letter in which she said ;s
me 'ln'ey didn't let her have Willie she'd
XIII herself. Wits mother. who ljvoe
IN Maine, has that letter. '''VS
don't know what Endner IS going