The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
GIRL
UNDER ARREST
Mr.. on!As Price, Formerly Miss
B%ennInser, Taken In by Deteo-
ti.es with safe Explosives
In Room.
HUSBAND AN
Married Within a Month and Has
Been Travelling Through the
South since Leaving
Homo Last Fall.
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DEC TO ire G6g0 SlLy.J
NASHVILLE. Tenn. Jan. 10.-A
10. Price, an e~x-convict from South
Carolina, and his wife, Onilee Price,
who says she Is the daughter Of the
pastor Of the Methodist Protestant
church at Keokuk, are being detained
by the police at headquarters after
being taken into custody by Detec-
tives Carr and Reese. Their hearing
will be-in theS city court Saturday
afternoon.
Price and his wife, who were
arrested at a local hotel Tuesday
night, are said to have had In their
room a number Of fuses. caps and
other articles used by safe blowers,
although the pair positively deny
possession of the implements or any
knowledge of how they came to be
found there.
Price admits having served a peni-
Tertiary term for robbery, but denies
being a party to any Of the recently
staged local jobs. His wife Joins him
in asserting that he was not out Of
their oom on the morning of the
!hold-up Of the Flat Rock bank
She. Knew More Than Her Parents.
Miss Onilee B~enninger, the daugh-
ter of Rev. Samuel C. Benninger of
the Methodist Protestant church of
iKeokuk, wrote her folks several
weeks ago that she had married Al.
Price in St Louis and was going
southeast and finally to his home in
South Carolina.
She. left home last fall with an
other girl. and had previously clerked
In the Winger store. She was heard
from at Kansas City, and her last
letter from ST. Louis told Of her mar
rage to Price, directed her mail to
be sent TO Atlanta. and said the
couple would spend Christmas at the
home of her husband in Orangeburg,
S. C. That was the last heard from
her until The Gate City received the
above dispatch.
Her troubles seem to have all re-
suited from the fixed idea that she
knew more than her parents about
people and life.
Her Family Stands Very High.
Her father stands very high among
all his acquaintance in Keokuk, and
her mother is a very fine woman.
Great sympathy will go to them at
tuc dliSst VI bictk 0duSllc1- dIu oil
Keokuk people will hope that nothing
more serious than detention will
come from the affair.
Investigation here shows that Miss
Benninger was full of the idea that
restraint is something to De avoided,
and that she threw of all suggestions
the ordinary conventions. Her par
'ar4c told hnr that che Uoc axrAcxoH
to act like the daughter of any
honest man, And that she was not
held to stricter standards because
she happened to be the daughter of
a minister: but the girl constantly
talked OF an restrictions being be-
cause she is a minister's daughter,
and that she would show the world
differently. Some of her associates
here were considered unsafe by her
father, but she insisted hat he was
wrong and she right in her estimate
of persons.
Only Girl to Blame For Trouble.
I'VE feel that we did our full duty
toward our daughter said Rev. s.
C. Benninger today when the Nash
vile dispatch was shown him.
THE family lived neighbor to US
when they first came tc town. said
Judge Mcnamara. "and they don't
make any nicer or finer people than
MI. Benninger and his wife. | saw
a lot of them. and held them n high
regard. You can bet you last dol
lar that the parents are not 20 blame
for anything their daughter did,
Since coming here about a year
ago. Rev. Mr.. B~enninger gained a
high place among the other ministers
Of this city and was made secretary
of the Keokuk Ministerial associa-
ton.