The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-06
49, and sprlnghtiy Mrs. Thomas
!, M.mphIs, Mo-, Has Her Hus'
s,,d Arrested and Then 10
proud Of Him, at That
BIZ JUMPING HIS BOND
..ourl Authorities Order His Ar
,..t. and Police Pick Him Up
on wife's Identification 1t
Union Station.

ghe pointed nei
4ner LaFeber at $3.50 o'clock this
ming AT 9 o'clock this morning
was talking to her husband
ough the iron barred door OF the
There , wouldn't have been any
80 az this, if he hadn't run Off
~ ma and the children" she said,
Il now he's going to get all there's
ming to him. unless he comes oack
me-"
port n. Thomas had row with a
LYMAN in a button factory at Mem
i Missouri, and went down town
bonght a gun with threats to go
and shoot the button factory
II, il is charged in the police court
Memphis. He was arrested and
case continued, Thomas being
eased on $500 bond with his father
law. James DeHart, as surety.
Irs' Thomas says it was intended
rive her husband a suspended SEN
re during good behavior. Thomas
! cook and he got in the soup and
lied the beans, the wife says, when
skipped out. The authorities at
kmphis asked the Keokuk police to
e him in If he came here, and
BY did.
As She View Lies Phases.
(If he comes back to me and the
(ldren, it will be all right-of
,rse. I'll take him back" said Mrs.
|omas who is pretty. sprightly
ing woman with one little son here
hi her, as she stood with the iron
IS between her and her husband.
know he gave a pearl ring to a
1T Madison girl, too.
MY husband got an honorable dis
arge from the army, all right" she
ID a little later, with pride ringing
her voice.
Ehe was seventeen when she
ped with Thomas and they were
FRIED in Colorado. she said. and
en- somebody remarked that no
d of seventeen is competent to
Ii out the right kind of husband,
flashed back:
I may not have picked out exactly
right kind of a man, but think
made pretty good blunder at 1t.
that"
Three Factions Want Him.
Thomas was in the cavalry and did
/ get overseas. He is a good look
5, candid. open faced, stalwart
ung man entirely different from
type generally seen in the jails.
Fhe Memphis authorities want him
the fighting charge and the father
law wants him to surrender to the
urt on his bond. The wife says
lnkly that she wants him back at
2 family hearth, as her sole con-
IN. He was arrested as he arrived
pm Fort Madison at the union
htion.
She says he is up against a Jail
ntence for deserving her in Mis-
uri and seemed posted on the de-
ftion laws Of Missouri and Iowa
ID their differences. She said to-
y that she will not testify against
F husband, if he comes back to
Released Late Today.
AFTER ne had been behind the bars
twelve hours, Thomas was re-
ased this afternoon by Chief Hen
mann, following a telephone con-
rsation with Prosecuting Attorney
Eeves at Memphis.
developed that the state au-
orities do not want him until May,
men ne is bonded to appear; that
latner-in-law bondsman argued
ainst paying the cost Of taking him
cS to Memphis, and that the wife
poo pat ON the proposition that he
urn to her and her eight-year-old
ughter and three-year-old son.
eince nobody expressed any deter
nation to take him back to Mem
Us soon. Chief Hennemann turned
man loose.
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