The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-16
MISSING $4,000
FOUND ON YOUNG
ELOPING BRIDE
"Happy" Johnson and For
mer Miss Bessie Endner
Arrested Up State
MARRIED IN JERSEY
Daughter of Brooklyn Man
Said to Have Financed
Couples Trip.
PAYROLL GONE FROM SAFE
Bridegroom and Wife, Who
gave Ages as 10, Face
Serious Charges.
PAYROLL GONE FROM SAFE

The runaway wedding trip of
Happy johnson Of 427 Seventh ave-
nue, Brooklyn. and his youthful bride
who up to February 4 was Miss Bes-
as Endaer, who lived around the cor
ner at SAT Fourteenth street-came to
a dismal end In Poughkeepsie yester-
day. Together with Willard Sutton.
ls, Of 1241 Thirteenth street. Brooklyn.
who was taken along as an adviser"
the couple were arrested there on
charges OF grand larceny and burglary
brought by the young woman's father.
Alfred Martin Endner, a wealthy spar
manufacturer with a plant at the foot
Of Beard street, Brooklyn.
Although Endner complained to the
Brooklyn police that his daughter had
financed the wedding trip by opening
The office safe during his absence and
taking $4,000, her sister Anna told Mrs.
William johnson, "Happy's" grand
mother, that $4,000 was missing And
Bessie herself mentioned that amount
to the Poughkeepsie police. admitting,
according to statements made by them,
that she had used her knowledge Of
the combination lock to possess her
self Of it. The money was for the
weekly payroll at the Endner estab
lishment.
In addition to the closed motor car
which the runaway pair bought in
oneonta, n. Y, for $3.50 and had with
Aar al fha
police found $4,000 in cash In the
brides hand bags--two packages Of
$1,000 each. done up in paper and tucked
away in separate grips. As soon as the
news of their capture was flashed into
Brooklyn Police Headquarters Detectives
Croak and Carbery started to bring the
trio back home. Mr.. Endner making the
trip with them.
Gave Their Ages as 10.
Although Endner told the poiics his
daughter was only Is years and
Johnson but II the two declared when
they were arrested that they were 10.
The girl, who Is an attractive blonde
about five feet four inches tall. wore an
expensive fur coat and told her captors
that she and her husband, whose Chris
tan name is William, had been married
by a justice of the peace in Jersey City
February 1. the same day she took the
l9ncy from her fathers safe. William
was poor, she explained, and there
teemed to be no other way for them to
marry.
She said young Sutton was an init
~ A.
give them the benefit of his advice in
any emergency that might arise. When
the crisis developed in Poughkeepsit
Yesterday, however, he failed to rise
TO the occasion.
After the ceremony the wedding party
went to Oneonta, arriving February s
9ad registering at the Windsor Hotel
The girl rented a safe deposit box al
The Citizens National Bank, paying foI
g for two years in advance. and bought
coupe OF the Francis Motor Sales
Company, paying the purchase price in
olis
Johnson and Bessie called upon the
formers uncle, Edward johnson, last
Sunday and spent the afternoon in his
home. William introduced the young
woman as his wife. As soon as they lef,
Edward wrote his nephew's grand.
"a tNNt IN their VlSlt aUC
he latter at onCe communicated with
re Endners. who, In turn, told tn,
!olice
From Oneonta the trio motored 10 AL
9any aud then on iown the river. reach
'Ag PouShkeepsie Last Wednesday. Both
Johnson and Sutton were clothed from
grown to toe In new outfits which had
teen bought fer them by the young
woman.
Charles J. McCabe, the Poughkeepsis
chief OF police, said that he acted II
"esponse to A telegram sent from Al.
tany by Detective ]. d. Mcfarland OF
;ae Brooklyn bureau, who had been trail
Ag the trio.
Wanted Another Wedding.
After arriving in Poughkeepsie VIII
lam and Bessie dropped around to se,
Edward A. Congcr. The City Judge, WHOM
;hey asked for a marriage license. TIL,
SRI explained that although she hac
wedding ring and a ceremony haC
heen performed by Justice OF the peace
fha wanted TO go through with another
enc before an ordained minister in New
York State so that II would be binding
fnd regular" She said she had no mar
rage certificate. Judge ConEer refuse,
70 Issue the license upon the grounC
'Ist they were not residents.
After that Johnson sought pisto
f'rmit from Sheriff Elmer j. Coklir
lie said his party had been held up b
highwayman while motoring throug
delaware county and that he wante
{ be able to protect himself in case o
similar occurrence IN the future.
AZ the Endner homo In Brooklyn yes
terday adrittsnce was denied to re
porters. Telephone calls brought re
sponses from a young woman who sal
she was Miss Bessie Endner and who de
r'ea knowing a person named Williar
Johnson or any knowledge of an elope
T"nt or theft at the Endner plant
Al the Seventh avenue address, how
ever. Johnson's grandfather said the la
had taken his overcoat the night c
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