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THE EVENING gazette-....... -W..-.. I I. I- ...I..—M ■■ ■theha,omion.v ]® • ’V *:v.-!nlt;* (Continued from Page 1)Vlr.ofiter,ei A brief wire from Port Huron that m he would arrived in Xenia Monday u£- i ! ternoon with his prisoner was all the word received by Probate Judge J. Carl Marshall from Probation Officer J. E. Watts who went to Portee-rs.1Huron Saturday morning with a war-^ rant for the Rev. W. W. Culp, 35,erstwhile Spring Valley pastor, who eloped June J4 with Mary Esther Hughes, 18 deserting his wife and nine children.a •owAlthough he had prepared for an emergency by having extradition papers filled out, the local officer did not have to make use of them and for that reason his return journey was hastened. Had it been necessary for him to have his papers signed by the Michigan Governor he would have lost a day in the trip. Although news dispatches Sunday said Culp would fight extradition lie evidently gave up this idea on the arrival of the officer.Probation Officer Watts reached Toledo with his prisoner Sunday j night and the night was spent in faeToledo jail. Whether the oiiic I comesfrom Toledo by way of Dayton or Springfield will make a difference in tne time h6 reaches Xenia because of the fact that the cars from those cities arrive at different times. If he comes by way of Dayton he can get here at three o’clock it is thought, while he will not arrive until 3:30 if he makes the trip through Springfield.sr-On his arrival Culp will be locked 11 up for the night and will probably not be given a hearing on the desertion affidavit until Tuesday morning, oaccording to Judge Marshall. In the dmeantime T. J. Hughes, father of thJ girl is making plans to prosecute Culp through fede.fU courts under the Mann Act.• iMrs. W- W. Culp, wife of the romantic pastor, did not come to XeniaMonday afternoon to m^et her erringhusband, and in spite of her state-fment that she would accept him back if he would give up the girl, there was no rehearing of the prodigal sonact nor was there the staging of any ^ demonstrations of* effection on theje part of the woman abandoned. She herawill give up her plans to return to aheiS her original home at Wakarusa, „)r. Ind., temporarily, until she learns u c! whether she will be needed in thelt;• 4- I« prosecution here. merisi Culp told the complete story lt;|f mghis life and the escapade which landed him behind the bars, while In jail In Toledo Sunday nght. “It is all very unfortunate,” said Culp, “No man should be eternally damned be-cause he seeks love when he has not)ritoiicinlebyhamwthiindi.possessed it. Life is but a trip through e^P1 a great wilderness and somewhere in the wilderness is a rose for every 1 man. That is the ’ose of love; Its the possession means happiness and sue- was cess. If a man pluck a thistle by mis- ^ . take, should he be prevented from 10 plucking a rose should he later Tbii chance upon it?” In his characteristic ^h®1 tss.ISinDonfiery language, Culp told his life story the hardships of his youth and his ^ow )r sudden impulse ^o marry at the urge of his father. This marriage he saidj later led to his attraction for the turiinSheHughes girl and to his elopement. A 10 ^ remarkable coincident is the fact that3' the two women in his life were of almost the same name. His wife’s maiden name was Mary Esta!n | Hughes. The girl he eloped with was ! Mary Esther Hughes.,n:ev-fe-nis I3- |O j)- 1Detroit, July 17.—Believing in the forgiveness of the Almighty, determined to awa'lt her ]over until they ^ meet in Eternity, Miss Esther Hughes twe] who eloped from Ohio with Rev. W. j v W. Culp, Methodist minister, left here titu today with her mother for a summerresort.y10le0.neyupoa t“haallRelinquiighing all cflaims on herpastor lover, taken back to Greene County, Ohio, from Por+ Huron, Mich, yesterday fO answer a charge of defii abandonment 0f hills wife and nine children, Miss Hughes promised her .mother she would try to forget. UC| i Esther, the daughter of T. J. ***■’ Hughes, attorney of Greenville, Ohio, j 1 and at one ti™e candidate for p rose -^ i cultting attorney, demanded in return that her mother obtain the full sup-1 port of her father in the defense of __Rev. Culp.n10PHerto E0 Accompta ried by a correspondent, ,I, Mrs. Hughey and her daughter left ,■s Pont Huron by boat within a few M ^ e hours after the pastor started on hisjourney back to Spring Valley, where, ^June 14, he eloiped in an auto fum- aU(1 ished by bis congregation for church work.ISraconeMrs. Hughes, staunch in her belief 'I j in the purity of her child, stated she HU was going back borne to a?k the ab- * l»* II solution of Rev. Culp, In the mean-t time, the daughter will stay behind in j an Ohio summer resort until the open kig of a college selected by the mother, when the 18-year-old girl will en- fWter school. ficiaAfter three weeks of working as the a waitress, in a Tashmoo park hotel cone while her ensitwhi 1 e pastor was in eirctthe kitchen, the girl denounced those Hart who condemned Rev. Culp and main- identained | hat she would always love a him.tl “I first knew Walter when he was date a preacher of the Mennonite faith in lates our city,” Miss Hughes confided door while on the boat, Detroit-bound. with“It was then that I was convertedto his church. Later I started teach-i Ing music to hns children.” I*T played the organ in his church I and soon grew to love him for his big-hearted ways and through sympathy because of his terrible home life.” Misc Hughes continued.“My love was returned. He found5is11ethat * T\isii3,s he must turn to someone for Insplra-AthevStreat ( Liene tion in his trials with his church.” i AncSA1-r-Joeeph E. Watts, officer from Tenia, Ohio, who took Rev. Culp back, was certain he would havejto pay his debt fp aocdety. He said, the feeling was running high and thatA l an attempt to tar and feather .the *__ wwdbeaf.rvwnH»*,W—. Eslabbar*armMathav,heai
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Mon, Jul 17, 1922
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