Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — FROM PENNSYLVANIA [ARTICLE]

FROM PENNSYLVANIA

Pastor Mason Is Taken to Indiana on Wife Desertion Charge. .¶ Laporte, Ind., January 25.— Rev. R. B. Mason, who, it is charged, eloped from Corunna, Ind., with Miss Lulu Shafer, a member of his congregation, abandoning his wife, was lodged in the De Kalb county jail tonight, having been arrested at Cochranton, Penn., where he had opened a music store. .¶ Miss Shafer returned with her father, who accompanied the sheriff, who brought the preacher back to face a charge of wife desertion and for prosecution under the white slave act. .¶ Mason will plead with his wife for reconciliation, but the latter declares she will prosecute him. Miss Shafer says she loves the preacher and will stick to him no matter what punishment may be meted out.