The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1921-12-16
WILL TAKE HUBBY BACK

Al hLSIEhN MIN 1AANU ~SVI"
LEGE AND HELD A CHARGE AT
UNIONT0WN
The Evening Sun of December z
publishes the following:
"If nv husband will only return
and make solemn promise he will
not have anything more to do with
any ether woman, / will forgive him
and take him back.H l,4t.7ltI: ~. 4
I This cmessagetto her pfeaeher-hiis
band came from Mrs. Estelle Crow
son, whose husband, the Rev: p Bev-
eriy Crowson, of Uniontown, clipped
last month with Florence Sipes, adop-
ted daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John II.
Boone, 931 North Mount street, Balti-
more, after their love affair had been
exposed by students of Western Mary
land College, where the clergyman
was taking post graduate course.
| Mrs Crowson pressed her 21-month
old baby. Beverly Paul Crowson, to
her breast as she related the lnfldell-
ty of the man whom she loves and
who deserted her for a girl. who has
been characterized by her foster
mother AS one who likes the gay life
and whose chief aim in life has been
to dress in a lavish manner.
| CroWson and Miss Sipes are now
believed to be in Baltimore, and Mrs.
! CroWson declared she is determined
+ to make her husband provide for, her
| self and their baby, and if he does not
come forward and give her assur-
ances that he will care for them she
will procure warrant for his arrest.
The Rev Mr.. Crowson is native OF
Parsley. Va, and while he was study
ing fer the ministry met his present
wife, who is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George E. Mister, of Crisfield,
Md. They were married about three
years ago and after his ordination
went tn .Crompton, Queen Anne'S
county. where the Rev. Mr.. Crow
il son was given charge. of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church. The couple
remained there about To- months and
then went to Vienna, Va. He was at
this charge for one year, going to I'm
iontown last April. 1t was here that
he met Florence 'SiDes.
The Boone and Crowson families
were friends and Miss S4pes paid the
| Crowsons a visit in company WIEN
Mrs Fannie Medling, daughter or Mr.
and Mrs Boone. The love affair be-
tween Crowson and the half-orphan
is believed to have begun at Cromp-
ton and. to have developed as the
months advanced.
Some time ago Miss Sipes, while on
visit to the Crowson home, told Mrs:
Crowson that she loved her husband
and asked Mrs. Crowson if she would
get a divorce so she might marry
him.
Mrs. Crowson was dumbf0unded at
the revelation and told The young wo-
man she would never consent to such
an Arrangement.
Soon after that Mrs. Crowson re-
ceived a. letter from a student at the
college in which was inclosed a let
ter supposed to have been written by
Miss Sipes to the clergyman and in
which she made passionate love. The
letter contained six pages and en-
Idearing love terms marked every line.
Crowson was confronted by his
wife and questioned concerning the
letter
Let me see what was in it," he
told his wife; but she refused to do
so and compromised by saying that
she would read it to him. When she
had reached about the fourth page
CroWson snatched the love billet from
her hands, and since then she hasn't
seen it.
Crowson made daily trips from the
parsonage at Uniontown to West
minister where the college is located.
He made frequent trips to the city,
stopping on most of the occasions at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Boone.
During the early part of November
Miss Sipes disappeared. Two days lat
er Crowson drove up to the door of
the Mount street home and Miss Sipes
stepped out. She was upbraided by
Mrs. Boone and the latter was taken
to task by Crowson, who accused her
of not permitting Miss Sipes to go
out except in the company of young
man who was calling upon her at that
time.
Both of them looked bedraggled,"
said Mrs. Boone. Both of them skunk
into the room as though they were
ashamed of themselves"
Accused of acting improperly, Miss
Sipes is alleged to have declared that
she intended to leave with the clergy
man. and gathering her clothes, took
them ont and tossed them into the
automobile. Crowson entered the car
and was followed by the girl and the
machine drove away.
/. Since leaving, Crowson has been
corresponding with his wife, and
when she announced her intention of
coming to Baltimore several days am
said he would meet her if she would
tell him on what train she was ieay-
ing.