The Washington times., 1922-01-25
EAGER
To SHARE
BLAME FOR
LOVE TRIP
"knoW I Have Sinnsd and Want
To Atone" Says Dorothy )
Bates. .

Ready to face the music, Roy
Arnold, arrested elopement part
ner Of dolly" Bates, Chevy Chase
schoolgirl, Is waiting in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, for the police escort
who will bring him back to Wash
ington to answer the charge of
violation of the Mann white slave
act, for which he was apprehended
yesterday.
WIFE To Meet Him.
Speeding i,orthward from the home
Of her parents IN. Mobile, Ala, Mrs.
Arnold, wife of the man who disap-
peared from Washington, January Z.
IL coming to face her husband and
to press the charge in which she is
complainant with the Bates girls
parents.
A sweet giri Of refinement and
beauty, who stuck with Arnold
through months when her desires
were to leave him because she be-
heved him untrue to her, is the po-
lice appraisal Of Mrs. Arnold.
In conferences following Arnold's
disappearance and preceding the
| warrant for his arrest, Mrs. Arnold
told police officials that she had
expected Arnold's elopement because
Of previous incidents, but that she had
stood by him to save from heart
breaking his aged parents. They had
pleaded with her to stay with Arnold,
she said, and II was only because of
their entreaties that she remained
loyal.
In the meantime. parents Of Dolly"
Bates were in conference with Mrs.
Van Wrinkle, head Of the women's
bureau, yesterday afternoon. in an
endeavor to pave the way for the re-
turn of their sixteen-year-oldd daughter.
The child is under the Jurisdiction
Of the juvenile court now, however.
having been on probation for a previ-
Gus adventure to her departure from
Washington with Arnold.
Grows Penitent.
In Chattanooga, where she Is being
held pending the arrival Of member
Of the women's bureau who will ac-
company her on her trip back to
Washington, Dolly" began to weaken
In her rebellious attitude which had
marked her first hours In the hands
Of the police.
She declares she is thinking OF the
future now, and that she only wishes
to atone for her elopement.
II know 1 have sinned and want to
make atOnement," she Is quoted as
having told Mrs. Marshall. elderly
police matron In the Southern city.
"ROy was not wholly to blame. 1
loved him and was anxious to 60 away
with him. - .
att is not right that the man should
take the whole blame for such
things" she said. "It takes two to
make a bargain and there were two
Of u.s."
"Roy is thirty-six now, and II, they
send him to prison for many years his
whole life win be ruined. hope he
viii get off light, so he, too. can make
amends for the wrong he has done"
"Doliy's" description Of her trip
with Arnold as man and wife included
the admission that their destination
had been. as suspected by the police
California. They were to have con.
tinued their flight westward to the
coast, had police not interfered.
Though insisting that she share the
blame for her flight with Arnold,
Dolly" declared that Washingtons
being "a very dull city" was partly
responsible for her final consent to
leave the Capital. ..
Arnold has remained uncommunica.
tive since his arrest, merely ANNOUNCE
ing that he In ready to face the mu-
sic," and waving extradition to the
District.
The elopers with their respective
police escorts are not expected to ar.
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