Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-12-10
TIP BY WOMAN
LEADS To A MAN
BEING ARRESTED
Harold H. MendeII Is
Charged With Staying
His Closest Friend, RolIin
Morgan, in Michigan

Bay City, Mich, Dec. 9.--Ar-
raignment Of Harold II, Mendell,
AZ, charged with the staying of his
closest friend, Rollin Morgan, 80,
whose body was recovered from the
kawkawlin river August 3, last,
was postponed late today until
Monday. Mendell is being held in
communicate at the county jail,
An admonition to investigate
Morgan's death, received at the
sheriff's office from an unidenti-
fled woman, led to the charge
against Mendell, according to Sher-
iff Theodore Trudell.
The sheriff said the woman call
cd while he was absent and told
Mrs. Trudell, Morgan's death might
not have been aC2iceEtaN,
Morgan's body was disinterred.
Physicians said he had not been
drowned, but that a blow on the
temple had rendered Morgan un-
conscious and that he had died
from suffocation,
That Mendell was in love with
Morgan's wife, is an angle OF the
case the prosecutors office IS IN
vestigatlng, it was announced. The
Morgan and Mendell families are
said to have been much together.
Mrs. Morgan left here shortly after
her husbands funeral and Is said
10 have joined her parents in Albu-
querque, N. M.
Morgan was father of three chill
dren, the eldest seven years old.
Entire blame for the tragic end
ing Of the friendships OF two
married couples--including the
death Of one husband and the ar.
rest of the second on a charge OF
staying the first--was placed at the
door Of 1.-The other woman" Satur-
day by Mrs. r. Fl. Morgan, 1904
East Central avenue, widow of the
drowned Bay City man.
Mrs, Morgan refused to believe
that Howard c. Mendell, arrested
Saturday in Bay City on charges
of the Staying Of Rollin Morgan
last August, was in any way implt-
Gated with the "aecidental' death
of her husband. She said she was
firmly convinced that her husband
met his death by accident.
She admitted that Menden
tthought an awful lot OF her. and
that she had acted as sympa-
thizer for him during many family
quarrels, and that he always
brought his troubles to her" Be-
cause Of that, Mrs. Morgan said,
Mrs. Mendell became extremely
Jealous.
"That woman is at the bottom
Of the whole thing" Mrs. Morgan
inserted, "She hates me far more
than she loves her husband or any
body else but herself. She's been
the cause of Men lelps arrest Just
to hurt me by hurting him. Sne'u
stoop to anything to hurt me.
Mrs. Morgan said that Mrs. Men
delPs grief at the death of Rolln
Morgan was positively disgust
ing" and that Mrs. Mendell car
ried on far worse than IL her own
husband had died"
THE Morgan families and the
Mendeu families belonged to the
same churches and same clubs
and went about together in Bay
CITY. Mrs. Morgan said. The Nor
gans and the Mendels kissed each
others husbands and wives lust
because they were good friends,
Mrs. Morgan said: then Mrs. Men
delTg affection. Mrs. Morgan be-
ileves, began TO be more than
friendship. Also Mrs. Menden be-
came jealous OF Mrs. Morgan.
"It was all right for her to KISS
my husband hut when she saw her
husband kissing me, she became
very Jealous said Mrs. Morgan
she said she did not remember
when she began to notice that her
husband and Mrs. Mendell were
not exchanging commonplace
kisses of friendship. However, ac-
cording to Mrs. Morgan, when Mrs
Mendell's mother died, Mrs. Mem
dell came directly to Mr.. Morgan
for all her sympathy, rather than
going to her own husband
Mrs. Morgan, with her three
small children, came to Albuquer-
aue shortly after the death of her
husband, three months ago. They
are spending the winter here with
her mother.