The Coconino sun., 1923-11-16
ROMANCE DEAD, ELOPINC
BRIDE QUITS SPOUSE WHO
STOLE HER DADS CAR

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made about the first time they met.
Because there were many discussions
following in the short time elapsing
between their betrothal and marriage.
Right away after she had consented
to marriage, he began to inquire, she
says, about her resources, what mon
ey she had, etc. She had piano, in
storage. He investigated and said it
could be sold for $400, but for some
reason it wasn't sold.
She demurred against secret mar
riage. Dollins was firm.
Then Dollins told her she must take
her fathers Cadillac sedan. She OBJ
jected. He told her if she didn't, the
whole thing was off.
Still, the illusion was too strong,
apparently, to be broken by such raw
work on the part of her fiancee. He
carried his point about taking the
car, using as part of the argument
that he had a Packard of his own in
Kansas City. But, he told her, it
was an open car and the weather was
too cold to travel to California in it.
Vera's cousin, Miss Mildred Bray,
was taken into the plot-for when
ever could any poor woman have a
secret without sharing it with at least
one of her own sex? The cousin
seems to have entered into the con-
spiracy with plenty of zest. Anyhow,
nothing was said about her trying to
change the course events were taking.
Perhaps she, too, had fallen under the
hypnotic spell of Dollin's straight,
athletic tallness, his black eyes and
hair, his ready smile and its reveal
ment of two rows of beautiful white
teeth. For Dollins is OF the regular
killing type, the kind that grabs
off all the female good lockers while
other more worthy beaux go signing
along alone.
Followed the marriage, by a justice
of the peace. Then Vera and her
cousin got her effects out of the ho-
tel where she and her parents lived.
They were taken to the room occupied
by Dollins and the red-headed young
man, Langill, who had been hired as
chauffeur. Langill packed the stuff.
Then it was taken to the street where
they met Vera, who had gone to the
garage and got the Cadillac. Into the
car the stuff was thrown. Then, she
says, began some fast travelling. Both
men seemed to be in an awful hurry
to get out of Kansas. They took turns
driving and kept at it for "a hours.
Several times the bride had wanted
to tell her parents that she was going
to be married; then, after the cere-
mony, she insisted again. But each
time she was over-ruled.
At Denver the men were preparing
to take their baggage out of the hotel
by way of the fire-escape. The little
bride prevented that. They had the
car in garage for repairs and man
aged to get it away without paying
the $63 garage bill, though they told
the bride they had paid it.
Money seemed to have reached the
famous vanishing point with the men,
There was some help from the brides
iewelry. At Gallup Rollins produced
a draft, which he finally succeeded
in getting 5000 on after the banker
had an interview with the bride. Her
acquaintance with Kansas City people
whom the banker knew lulled his sus-
picions. She thought the draft was
good.
The hearing Saturday afternoon be-
fore Mr.. Rees was called after COM
plant had been sworn out by Horace
w. Steele, u. s. special agent, the
complaint alleging that Charles R.
Dollins and Charles A. Langill had
violated the national motor vehicle
theft act dyer act) by "unlawfullyt
knowingly and wilfully entering into
conspiracy to steal, seize, take and
carry away" S. H. Bray's Cadillac
sedan.
Dollins asked that C. B. Wilson be
called in to represent him. Mr.. Wilson
was out of town. Then he wanted
his bride brought into the courtroom
Sheriff Campbell refused to bring hel
in, though she was then sitting in tht
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