Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1917 — TOLD TO ELOPE BY SPIRITS [ARTICLE]

TOLD TO ELOPE BY SPIRITS

Then Girl's Companion Pleads Guilty Under Mann Act at .Frankfort, Ky. Frankfort, Ky.—Roger W. Dale, alias Frank Hancock, pleaded guilty before United States Commissioner Wiard to violating the Mann act by bringing sixteen-year-old Bessie Lucille Smith of Toledo, Ohio, to Frankfort, where they have been living since October 3. According to the girl’s story she met Dale in the building where her father has his office. Dale became the gobetween for written questions and answers passing between the girl and a trance medium, whom she never saw and who wap supposed to live at 2016 Putnam street, the home of Dale’s mother. One of these communications from the medium conveyed the Information to the girl that she was in love with Dale, who would marry her. Then Dale asked her to run away with him. Dale told her they were married and showed her a certificate.