Evening star., 1922-11-08
FEH0LDS JAILED
! EX-PASTOR GUILTY
Mrs. Leigh Declares Untrock-
ed Clergyman Boasted of
Illicit Love.
Special Dispatch TO The star.

Special DIsrdt"h 10 ] ne star.
BOSTON, Mass, November S.--James
Furman Leigh. unfrocked Baptist
clergy man. boasted of his Illicit love
for Miss Anna Shelton. a state ward
a the Virginia Home and Industrial
School for Girls, when his wife re-
huked him for his conduct, and later
assisting the Sirl TO escape. took her
Uu Washington. d. G.. where he lived
with her as man ard wife, II is al
legged
To-day his past is holding him pris-
oncr in East Cambridge jail, where he
is held on charges of violating the
Mann white slave act Hls VIE
tIimca CUrrier Leigh. Is working LOT
$. week in d NewburH port store
and scrimping to raise enough h'o"IH
IL obtain "A divorce. The former cleric
and Y NJ. q. \. war worker was ar
rested ON Chauuc"y street by Deputy
United States Marshal GhIloni. Tie -
being held in bonds of Sl.o"o. Lelsh
has been living under thu name or
James r. Wocdall.
Wife Left Leigh.
In her home. at "A Temple street,
Ntuburyport Mrs. Leigh told of h'r
shattered romance and OF her heart
aches caused by her husbands open
attentions TO Miss Shelton. Whl'n
"CauScd me to become an oD1eCt ot
nitv" When he told n'e in Washing
Ton that he was friendly with MISS
shelton and was proud of II, ! came
home To my parents and have not seen
him for the past eighteen months
the woman SAID,
church AZ Reulahville, Va. ana II
was here h, first met Anna shelton, a
Seyent,cu-year-oid state N+rd. VINO
was visiting at the home of or next
door neighbor. Robert Il! iath'
The Ryland farm was io"-at''
stretch OF wooded lands and ne pm
much of his time horseback riding
swimming and walking through th'
woods with Anna. lie said he was
lust taking a kindly interest III the
poor child.
Forced TO Resign.
so often did they 90 inro the woods
alone that tuwuspeoTl@ became sus-
nicious They said it was Miss Eliza
beth Ryiand he was "fh. h'!
forced him to resign h.> pastordte.
The next call cam. from Altd
VISTA Va after my husband had done
some good work a. Il MISSIONARY Nv
In. rnuuutaius. Will" We were tllefe
Anna was studying at l'anVille saP-
rist college and h" went there :"
MANY times that college authorities
became sus spicious and foi bdde nm
10 enter the building
They kept stricter watch on the
girl and forbade her TO write to nun
81 he went to FredericksDu and ar
laU..d t. write her through her
mother For long time, despite the
watchfulne OF the college authori-
,i.s, they went together He told me
not to open mail addressed TO him a.
president of the Law Enf"rceme MT
League, because they were fuil OF OF :
ticiaI business | found they were all
from Anna
Leigh Apparently Nervous.
"Recauso of his shameful acts
have lived u life OF hell she de-
clarsd.
Leigh in his cell at the East cam =
bridge jail. is apparently II nervous
wreck constantly calling his VII.
name and repeating his declarations
~ innocence over and over again.
The warrant against Leigh alleged
that ne induced the girl to fee the
home and to accompany him to Wash
ingtor. u c. in 1920. and that they
both. posing as man and wife, traN-
eled to various points about the coun-
try before and since.