The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-04
HUSBAND
. To ELOPE WITH
BANKRUP MAN
Wife of Wealthy Long island
Farmer Is Found Working
in a California LunctToom
TRAILED BY CONSTABLE
Application for Life Insurance
Loan Gives Clue to Bung-
allow Retreat of EIopers

NEW YORK, March 3.-Mrs'
Dorothy Latham, twenty-eightl
wife of E. Ellsworth Latham, III.
&y-fiEe, accounted the wealthaest
agriculturist of Orient Point, L. L.,
who vanished December 4, without
leaving q trace, has been found,
and the guessable cause of her DIS
appearance was true.
She is living in q COTTAGE IN
Pasadena, CAL, with Frank Doug
lass, formerly her neighbor. Con-
stable Fred z. Booth, of Southoid,.
found them there and returned
with a tale that set the tongues
in Suffolk county wagging about
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Davis. the
bungalow occupants at Pasadena.
WIVES MEET ON TRAIN.
But, going back TO December.
Ellsworth Latham had married the
blond who was nurse at his w1re
last illness eight years previously,
Their union was regarded as most
happy She was an industrious
wife. That they loved one another
was taken for granted.
A mile away lived Douglass. an
other tiIler of the soil and married.
Mrs. Latham announced after
church meeting she was going TO
visit her sister, wife of Frank
Enedeker, a well-known racing man
OF few years back, who lives
at 2119 Globe avenue, the Bronx.
She took the morning train, an
other passenger happening to be
Mrs. Douglass, who was going to
step with friends in New Jersey.
They sat together and chatted
about the sewing circle-Orient
Point then was free from scandal.
While waiting for her handbag
to cone from the train here, Mrs.
TO the Hudson tubes. Nothing was
Latham walked with Mrs. Douglass
heard from her afterward.
The Police Bureau Of Missing
Persons was informed. Latham
was excused from jury duty in
1t was feared his wife had met
an accident and lay unconscious in
q hospital.
CONSTABLE FINDS PAIR
Douglass had dropped out Of
sight the same day, bat relatives
OF both insisted the disappearance
were a mere coincidence. Bad luck
with crops had caused Douglass
financial failure. Some thought he
was respondent. He had filed a
petition in bankruptcy, placing his
liabilities at about $4S, 900 and his
assets at about $4,000.
Three weeks ago Constable Booth
mysteriously packed bag for Cali
fornia. But he frequently had gone
90 Sag Harbor and Patchogue. and
was looked upon as a traveller.
His departure was no surprise.
He went straight to Bowen
Court. a colony of thirty-four bun
galows, in Pasadena, and found
"Mr. and Mrs. Davis" there.
Hello Frank" he said. How
are things?"
Douglass allowed they were not
what they might have been. Love
in a bungalow had succeeded the
toll of Orient Point, but prosper.
fly had been an unknown guam
tity in the Davis" household.
Douglass was q tractor salesman
IN Los Angeles. and Mrs. Latham
was a waitress in the Crown res
faurant there. Booth got their
story and departed.
Right there in his narrative, Il
was eApecteo ne might inject 4
clue that Sherlock Holmes forgot.
but the guess was wrong as the
one about the dual disappearances
had been right.
Douglass had some life insur.
ance and thought he would raise
funds. Mrs. Latham had a small
amount Of cash and a few blank
checks when she left home, but
payment on the checks had been