Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1908 — PREACHER AND HEIRESS FOUND [ARTICLE]

PREACHER AND HEIRESS FOUND

Itev. Jere Knode Cooke and Floretta Whaley Living in San Francisco —Have a Child. San Francisco, Dec. 31.—The Call publishes an interview with the Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, formerly pastor of St. George’s church at Hempstead L 1., who it is claimed left his wife some eight months ago, eloping with a sev-enteen-year-old heiress named Floretta Whaley. The pair have been located, it is said, at a Hat at lltrt) Green street in this city while a search has been going on for them all over the country. A. child has been born to them during the interval, the rector working as a painter and decorator and when not occupied in that line, doing tin hardest kind of manual labor for the support of himself, his companion and the child. He had, it is said, lived quietly In I.os Angeles before coming here after he left the east. Inquiry at the flat occupied by J. Knode Cooke and Floretta Whaley, revealed the fact that the couple had fled with their child.