The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-17
BOYS HELD AS
SAFE ROBBERS;
GIRL ACCUSER
Happy Johnston, IL, With
Young Companion, Blamed
for $4,000 Job.
ROMANCE ENDS IN CELL
Grandfather of Youth Says
Miss Endner Wrote Many
s Love Letters.


yeSr-oid Bessie Endner OF s47 Fourteenth
street, Brooklyn, take $4,000 pay roll
money out OF her fathers safe and sent
her wmging to her boy sweetheart
Happy Johnston, to Poughkeepsie
withered and died in fhe Raymond
street Jail yesterday. when the boy and
his chum, Willie Sutton of 1241 Thir-
teenth street, Brooklyn. were placed be-
hind bare.
The happiness Of the youngsters lasted
less than fortnight. Three serious
charges are lodged against Johnston by
Bessie's father. Alfred Martin Endner.
wealthy spar manufacturer The boy
Johnston Is held In $1,000 bail. Sutton
10 charged with abduction and burglary.
He went TO the Raymond street jail with
Happy" upon failure to furnish So'ooo
bond.
When the trio arrived in court accom-
panied by Detectives Croak and Car
berry of the Brooklyn Bureau. Mr.. End
ner Immediately signed an amdsvit
against the boys and engaged Attorney
Dan Mcfarland as counsel. The case
OF the girl was put over. without
lawyer Johnston waived examination and
his case viii go before the Grand Jury.
.-., Girl Tells Of Burglary.
BESSIE, whose name really Is Sarah
Elizabeth. was dressed in the beautiful
seal coat that she purchased with some
of the nay roll money The clothes that
Johnston got for his honeymoon came
out Of the same bank roll. He. looked
younger than II. while the girl might
have been taken for 90. She was calm
enough during the proceedings, but after
the arraignment fell in her mothers
arms and wept.
The girl made the following explana-
ton: "On February 4 at $3.50 in the
evening william, Johnston and Sutton
and myself entered the ONCE Of my
father. Johnston climbed the fence lead
ing TO the yard where the office Is sit
uated at the foot of Beard street, and
when ne got inside he cut a hole through
the fence and Sutton and / entered the
yard We then broke a window and
climbed into the once.
IT opened a small safe to which had
the combination and took from II the
keys to the big safe where the money
was kept When we opened the big
safe we could NOT get into the money
,.ompa rtment because the key stuck and
one Of the boys took an axe and broke
It open. We took the money and left
the Office the sanns way that We entered
"Happy's" grandfather, William john
ston. a white haired man OF So, charges
the case against the boy Is frameup
On the part OF Mr.. Endner.
This affair mas been going on for
about a year. For nearly eight months
my boy has been out of work. and
Eessie gave him money all the time. The
girls parents never liked the match and
wouldn't let William into their house, so
Bessie used to come over here They'd
be down In the hall nights until O'Clock
In the morning and my wife would
boiler down TO have them stop their
spoonine. She was always after him,
and finally six weeks ago her father
locked her in his house. but in a week
she got out and they we're together
again She them said she had $500 In
Liberty bonds and wanted to take them
and 20 away with William. Finally she
wrote my daughter. Mrs. Mary Harding
Of Maine. who is Williams mother. that
She would kill herself II anybody tried
10 restrain her from marrying William
. Nov her father Is wealthy and In
not, and I haven't money to defend the
hoy. But know'my grandson is honest
= and I'm going to see II can't do some
thing for him. II the boy had beer
crooked he could have stolen that $4,000
from Bessie any time while they vert
together"
She Sent Fifty-two Kisses.
There is some doubt whether thu
Youngsters were married in Jersey Cit,
by a justice OF the peace as Bessie claims
There In no doubt but that they trieC
10 get married several times. Letter!
addressed to the boy as far back as las
summer we're signed by Bessie as YOU
,onesomy wiley, Bessie
All the letters were Of the same tenor
She had two fears, first, that Happy
would be stuck on some other girl' and
second. that he would frequent saloons
The Endners close their Brooklyn resi-
dence in summer and live at Is Scovill
walk. Sea Gate. All the letters WRITER
from there In June address Happy" a
Hubby"
"Please keep away from other girl,
Hubby. dear. and wait for me. as I an
waiting for YOU" she wrote in one, an
tr another:
I've got the wedding ring and vii
bring IL up TO the house tonight. w
can see II II Is OF any use" The las
one ended with ffty-two "X's' crosse
all over one sheet and ''all the rest ar
going to give you when I see you
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