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Show JAILED FOR HUSBAND S , to hatred. I am sorry now I spoke of the Chautauqua hotel fire, but my temper overcame my judgment. Nothing Noth-ing I might Bay now, however, could be used against him, as he has been acquitted of the arson charge." v Woman Served Six Years in Prison Pris-on on Arson Charge. While Incarcerated Spouse Failed to Visitpnd She Believed He Was III Liberated, She Has Him Arrested. Philadelphia. Deserted, she says, by her husband after he had been acquitted ac-quitted of the charge of setting fire to the Point Chautauqua hotel, in Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., while she served six years in prison, Mrs. Nora Allen turned on him In court here and exclaimed: "At the trial I kept my mouth shut to save your neck. I went to prison and you went free. I gave you all but ?250 of the $1,000 I received for setting set-ting the fire." Mrs. Allen had brought her husband hus-band to court on a warrant charging him with desertion, having taken this action only after she had sought him for more than a year, only to be rejected re-jected when she finally found him. In the entire time she was in prison, she said, her thoughts turned con- stantly toward her husband, although Ehe received no word from him. With tear-filled eyes she said in Magistrate Gorman's court that sometimes while in prison she thought her husband must be dead, at others he was ill. Numerous were the excuses she indented in-dented in hep own mind to account for failure to hear from him. When she was released a little more than a year ago she started out to search for her husband, intending, she said, to aid him if he was in trouble. Tracing him to Philadelphia, she learned he had been living in No. 170G Sumner street, but had been taken to i the Medico-Chirurgical hospital for j treatment. Mrs. Allen visited the hos- pital and sent word to her husband j that she wanted to see him. "He does not care to see you," was 1 the reply she received. She then went to police headquarters and obtained a warrai.' against Allen. "He still is my husband," she said after Allen had been held in bonds of $300, "but my love for him has turned I |