REVOLTED WIFE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1736, 29 April 1913, Page 5

REVOLTED WIFE.

ELOPEMENT WITH A BURGLAR,

"TOO MUCH RELIGION." • New York, April 14. In the belief that she would be able to disclose the hiding place of .£25,000 worth of jewellery, the proceeds of a series of burglaries, the police of San Francisco are searching for Mrs. Mabel Clnrkson, wife of tho l{ev. >>\ K. Clnrkson, head of a White Cross Midnight Missionary Association of Chicago. Shortly, before Christmas Mrs. Clnrkson, a woman'of thirty, deserted her husband and five children, and, it is alleged, eloped with Owen Conn,- n "gentleman burglar," whose acquaintance she made two years before while visiting a county gaol and administering religious consolation to the prisoners. Despite the fact that she had spent her life in tlio service of religion, Mrs. Clarkson became infatuated with tho handsome burglar, who, on his release, found no difficulty .in persuading her to abandon her family and accompany him to tho West. Yesterday the "gentleman burglar" was taken to the prison hospital in San Francisco, suffering from two bullet wounds received during a fight with tlie police, ll'is careet since his elopement with the clergyman's wife has i:fen marked by a succession of bold burglaries, in which he was, the police allege, ably assisted by his woman companion. The police base their theory on tile discovery of feminine footprints in flowerbeds hading to windows thai had been forced open. "My wife's downfall," declared the Kcv. Mr. Clnrkson to-day, "is a problem for psychologists. I attribute it to a surfeit of'religion. Her lather is an elder in a Chicago church. Her mother is an ardent church member. She 1 iorsc 1 f ;ang in Hie church before she wa< eld enough to to school. She was brought up in the church ami i'.i llic Sunday school, and finally married a preacher. She was ,-u con>lmlly surrounded with religion ami religious persons (hat her imtnrc reb;l!r-d and sought relief in thf companionship of a hiUKltuV—"Ea,il£ lUil,"-