Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1912 — JAILED FOR HUSBAND [ARTICLE]

JAILED FOR HUSBAND

Woman Served Six Years in Prison on Arson Charge. While Incarcerated Spouse Failed to Visit and She Believed He Was lII—Li berated, She Has Him Arrested. Philadelphia.—Deserted, she says, by her husband after he had-been acquitted of the charge of setting fire to the Point Chautauqua hotel, in Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., while she served six years in prison, Mrs. Nora Allen turned on him in court here and exclaimed: „ “At the trial I kept my mouth shut to save your neck. I went to prison and you went free. .1 gave you all but $250 of the SI,OOO I received for setting the fire.” Mrs. Allen had brought her husband to court on a warrant charging him desertion, having taken this action only after she had sought him for more than a year, only to be rejected when she finally found him. In the entire tifiie she was in prison, she said, her thoughts turned constantly toward her husband, although she received no word from him. With tear-filled eyes she said in Magistrate Gorman’s court that sometimes while in prison she thought her husband must be dead’, at others he was ill. Numerous were the excuses she invented in her own mind to account for failure to hear from him. When she wafijreleased a little more than a year ago she started out to search for her husband, intending, she said, to aid him if he was in trouble. Tracing him to Philadelphia, she learned he had been living in No. 1706 Sumner street, but had been taken to the Medico-Chirurgical hospital for treatment Mrs. Allen visited the hospital and sent word to her husband that she wanted to see him. “He does not care to see you,” was the reply she received. She then went to police headquarters and obtained a warrant against Allen! “He still is my husband,” she said after Allen had been held in bonds of S3OO, “but my love for him has turned

to hatred. I am sorry now I spoke of the Chautauqua hotel fire, but my temper overcame my judgment. Nothing I might say now, however, could be used against him, as he has been acquitted of the arson charge.’*