Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1912 — Bride’s Tears Win Officers’ Hearts [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bride’s Tears Win Officers’ Hearts

PORTLAND, ORE.—A bride’s tears softened the grim hearts of Detectives Ltiherland and Van Overn when the officers went to arrest M. B. Anderson, twenty-two yeara old, on a charge of decamping from a hotel . without-first, settling his bill. Mrs. Anderson, a comely glrLwife of nineteen, declared whdri the officers came to arrest her husband, that she could not endure it to be separated from him, and asked if she might be locked up, too. With tears glistening In her pretty eyes and sobbing softly in their room at the Rowland hotel, Mrs. Anderson was told by the detectives that she might go to the jail with her husband and was placed in the'custody of the matron. Anderson was locked up in the men’s ward on the same floor. By tearing up the sheets In the room where they owed rent, to make ropes to lower their suitcases to the ground, Anderson, who Is the son of a detective in the service of the Santa Fe railroad in San Francisco, and his pretty wife, who has kept her identity from the police, escaped from the Cody Apartments at No. 431 East Taylor street. The evil genius of a gas meter, which Anderson is charged with having robbed of five 25-cent pieces, followed them, and

when they attempted the same method of escape from the Rowland hotel; they were caught. According to their story, told to Detectives Litherland and Van Overn after they had been arrested, they eloped from San Francisco and were married at Santa Cruez, Cal., a month ago. Then they started to Portland.; Arriving here, Anderson was unablej to secure work. When a bill of $25 for rooms had been run up at the Cody apartments, they took the midnight method of escape. The manager swore oat a warrant for their arrest, hut they were not captured. Hearing that they were intending the sheet method of escape from the Rowland, the proprietor telephoned to/detective headquarters, and Deteotives Litherland and Van Overn, rec-j ognizing Anderson, who was registered under another name, arrested | him on Suspicion.