Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-30
the trouble here invited her to come
and make her home with her.

E--E 49, ~ @1Aa@E
and make her home with her.
Constable j. G. Ford of Mexico
was in Paris Tuesday afternoon and
~4t-.c4ed me trunks and boxes ex-
~ essed here by Mrs. Arlee Haga from
--G.-.co md consigned to the editor
o. the Mercury to whom, Mrs. Haga
Tanned, she was related.
All claims on the trunks were pre-
viously relinquished by the Mercury
editor, who knew nothing of them
and almost as little Of Mrs. Haga
herself. According to Officer Ford,
Dr. Ii. B. Miller and Mrs. Haga, who
had been operating a socalled san
Itar.um at Mexico, no patient hav-
ing ever entered it. Among the
goods they are said to have made off
with was a $50 microscope belong
.ng to Rev. Shouse of Moberly, for
mer owner of the 6o-called santiar-
ium, who was at one time an osteo-
path The s%anitarium was conduct
ed as the Shouse apartments, neal
the Ledger office, and we're rented
from that gentleman.
About the same time an old man
named Mcknight, living at Kerso,
Colorado, showed up at Mexico and
claimed Mrs. Haga had also been
bleeding him under promise of mar
rage it is said. He said he had
grown daughters and he drove to
! Mexico in a car. He also had pushed
matters and had received a letter
from DR.. Miller stating that Mrs.
Haga was a patient in his hospital
and owned him 5000, and that she
could not marry until the bill was
paid. The old man came on to see
about the straits of his lady love
and then the bubble broke. Confron-
ted with her acts Mrs. Hasa was
given her choice between prosecution
and "a long vacation" from Mex
leo, according to Jul information.
She accepted the latter and asked
two days to get ready. On the same
day, which was Saturday, DR.. Miller
returned from Benton City, where he
operated a branch institution, accom-
panied by another woman, who is
still in Mexico, claiming to be Mrs,
Miller No. 1. That night they park
ed Rev. Shouse's car, which they were
using, two blocks from the s%anitarium
and after, midnight carried their eff
fects to it, leaving that night fol
C~entralia..
In the meantime Mrs. Haga, who
SIGNS her name Laura Arlee, but says
her maiden name was Lena, was al
lowed to come to such settlement a.
she could with Mcknight, the sher
ifs office being turned over to thu
two. According to Meningitis stor!
she threw herself in his arms, tol'
t him he was the dearest man on earth
r and said she would go with him Mon
= day morning. She cautioned him, how
t ever, not to visit the hospital on tn
following day "as the Doctor woul
n me there" When Monday came tn
A dove had flown, but the old man sti
: believed she loved him and woul
!. have gone with him. He came thong
t Paris on his way home. ID
r Miller it is alleged is under indict
e ment at Grant City, Mo-, and ha
: to put up a cash bond for his al
p~earance. The couple were last hear
of near Lincola, in Southern Missouri
d where Mrs. Haga, mailed anotht
note. with an express receipt, I
|. her "Dear Cousin"-the same bein
5. the editor of the Mercury. She ST
ted that she was "still travelling
Ie and asked that her trunks be store
1t is now doubted That her made
,r name was Bodine. She saw the nan
# of the editor of the Mercury in
J. Washington news paper and pr
ID badly pounced on him as a posslb
victim-a very sad mistake Indee
lie No lady ever tackled IN emptier bu
r. BILE. -,
TX Mr.. Ford received word from Col
10 RADIO Springs several days ago tn
n. the couple had left there and was
lie way to Massachusetts,. Mr. Ford
making every effort to trace tnem'
h. Mrs. Haga had seceral children
"a Washington D. c., and she was tryll
I'd to get them delivered into e Gu
ze tody. Then the relatives did n
heed her request she wrote to the
i'd that she "was happily married" n
IN husband was DR.. Miller and she W
diving in a palcae."