The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-05
TR|ANGLES SEEM
TO FLOURISH NOW
keokuk Was One Step In the Career
of the Muscatine Woman and
Her Daughter and
Chauffeur.
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They Were Later Arrested In quincy
and Passed Through This
City on Way
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Eternal triangles and deserted
wives seem to find fertile field in
the soil around Keokuk, Burlington,
Quincy, Fort Madison. and some parts
of Hancock county. Estelle Smalley
and her mother and Howard Argyle, a
chauffeur, crossed the river of KeO-
kuk on their way to Quincy, JMere
they were arrested. Yesterday they
passed through Keokuk on the way
back to Muscatine to answer charges,
the first two charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses and the
latter for wife desertion.
1t was Friday that the police re-
Argyle and his companions. The same
the trio was nabbed and later taken
back to Muscatine by way of Keokuk
to answer for the charges. The
sheriff, who went after them, had war
rants charging the two women with
also armed with warrant sworn out
by Mrs. Argyle against her husband
charging desertion.
Now all three are back in Musca.
tine, facing an irate husband and a
disgruntled wife.
Quick and clever work on the part
Of the Muscatine sheriff, he believes,
saved $4,000 that H. e. Smalley claims
and that his wife sent away in bank
draft. He also stopped shipment of
a carload of furniture.
Smalley, Sheriff Wiley says, did not
suspect that his wife, daughter and
the chauffeur were bound for the
T,,,iI
to him that his wife and daughter had
gone to Burlington, instead of going
to Davenport, as the woman told her
husband.
He believed her story that she and
her daughter wished to go to Daven-
port for few days and went to his
work without alarm. Later in the day
he learned that all their furniture had
been shipped south.
Cross River Here.
AS soon as he had told his fears to
Sheriff Wiley that official realized
that he must act promptly. He wired
number of cities and started out to
find the fugitives. He learned that
Argyle had gone to Burlington in an
automobile and that Mrs. Smalley and
her daughter had not gone to Daven-
port. A bit Of detective work and the
discovery that the two women had left
on a south bound train enabled
Sheriff Wiley to figure that they
might cross the river at Quincy. He
wired to Chief Ryan at the latter city.
Meantime the two women had met
Argyle in Burlington and the three,
in a car, made a fast journey to
Quincy. They crossed the river at
Keokuk and reached the Pottle garage
at Quincy Friday night.
Chief Ryan and Chief Scharnhorst
met them there and took them to the
police station, where the girl told a
romantic story of her affection for the
married chauffeur.
Teaches Sunday School Glass.
The idea that Argyle might secure
divorce and marry again was a sur
prise to the Muscatine official. He
said that Argyle's wife was fine
girl and a member of an excellent
family. After her marriage her father
offered to give them home with free
rent and board so that Argyle could
care for his wife and baby.
| Mrs. Smalley, who has displayed
solicitude for the chauffeur's welfare,
and who said he roomed in her house,
taught Sunday school class in the
Baptist church in Muscatine. 1t was
shock to the community to hear that
she had been arrested in Quincy with
Argyle, whose records in Muscatine
garages is known.