Show PREACHER COOKE GOOKE RUN TO COVER GOVER Living in Frisco Wih With Girl He Stole from Eastern Home DECLARE ARE THEY ARE HAPPY Former Petted Pastor of fashionable Fashionable fash Fash- Church Now Day Laborer f San Sn Francisco FrncIsco Dec 30 Te Rev S. S Jero Jere Cooke Cooko formerly rector of a fashion fashion- h at L. L L I. I a Yale Talc graduate and a brilliant young oung preacher preach preach- er or but ut particularly known to the tho world as tine the mw m who eloped with wih Floretta Floreta Whaley a year old girl who was a n member of his Long Island Sunday Sunda 8 school hool vas discovered in this city on Sunday He admitted his identity This morning fearing arrest upon tho tIm charge chat charge of ot abduction he ho again disappeared but iut ho Is supposed to be hid hid- hiding ing Ing ng somewhere about town With wah him was Miss Iss Whaley the girl for or whom he deserted a wife to whom lie he le had bad been married marIed nine years for tor whom he gave up his church and social position In lu the East l-ast ast and for tor wh n rn he sacrificed the exceptionally attractive a opportunities that were his in the aristocratic uric aris Hempstead parish AH tu Man 11 nun nOli Wife ll Living as Mr and Mrs rs Gerald Dal- Dal c corn com m. m in a n room four apartment upon the tho third floor Hoor of or Green street Cooke and an Miss Iss Whaley hale have been carrying carrying car car- on housek housekeeping e ton for the past throe three e months Thoy They have an Infant son soo who wiio Is two months old 01 As his wife wie is still sti living In the In-the the thc East and as asthore there thore Inns has been no legal separation tho the fugitive preacher has haa not Incurred arrest ar ar- ar- ar rest relt for tor bigamy by b going through a second marriage ceremony 1 but ho he declares de do- clares that Miss hale Whaley Is his wife and that he will wi never recognize ze In that re re- re tine the woman from whom he hc ned Doth Both the man an and the young oung woman have scorned lo to be bo very In their t tenement home on Green street arid and the be few tew people who anything ant about them them regarded them as an unusual unusually un un- un- un usual usually out n congenial couple COUPLe Cooko Cooke has ha been aa as a n painter td decorator following a trade trad which he lie learned as a n bo boy by by moans mOns of ot i he worked his way through Yalo Yale university When not way alne aUe trough to o obtain work as a n painter pinter ho he found employment as a ta lay day laborer in preparing the tho foundations foun toun- of or buildings s and in inn doling doing other ork rork ot of that Hi His work prk has Ita not i easy easy- for tor a acmon aman man who whop hO was yas aa a petted Ino unto the tho n a huh u s 1 Q u haul e L. L t cn h t II Ott W 4 AU A 1 1 4 l b begin i hl his 1 career ree over cr again and J I support sup SUD- D port his wife anti and ch child hi in whatever way he be le may my be bo able to ito to-ito do so Course of or Their Flight After ACer leaving New York Cooko Cooke and anti Miss balc Whaler went south and then to southern California The pr preacher acher found work at his time old oM trade in Los Angeles Angells and the occupation served Benel to keep him hin from suspicion of being the thc fugitive fu II e who wino wa was wanted In tn New Now NewYork NewYork York and for whose arrest there was wasa a warrant upon the tIne charge of oC tion ton Miss rI relatives thes were people o of eume ume weal wal wealth h and h-and and amI they made a a- Q great effort t to locate the the girl gIrl but nobody the fastidious young clergyman clergy man Ian In tho working g clothes lothes of the tine painter Six months month ago ng Cook and Miss Wha- Wha lc Icy came to m San 1 Francisco Francsco as owing to the LIme vast at amount mount o of building being better to done there was a eter opportunity obtain work The first place they went to live lve was wa in a boarding house at Pol Polk and Gough streets where one of oC their table companions was Captain John Cleary of th the Harry Mor Moro o private mn- mn vate detective agency until lul Detective Cleary Clenry very promptly observed observe that tIne the called so-called Mr Il Balcom was a man of or education dlf and of ot m h ability ni r na a Li speaker He lie Ic concluded unicorn Balcom had not spent much o of his life at the time occupation of painter but ut beyond thinking ln of or him as an nn unusual sort sorl of or Individual he me paid little attention to the tIme stranger Last Saturday Miss Whaley's Whaleys photograph was published Inthe in inthe inthe the Examiner and the dc detective reco recognized recognized nl It I as that of or th the Irot pretty young oun woman he lie had known as oS Mrs Irs Gerald Gorald Balcom wife of oC the time college collego educated painter A little lUle Investigation resulted In the tho finding of tho time fugitive couple i In time the tenement at nt Gre Green n and ant Hyde Hyde streets There Theto being no no warrant no action neton was taken for or the arrest of ot Cooke This Tints morning of or hiding the th latter again fled Ced to a n place Grandmother Will 11 Forgive With With tears of New Y York rl Dec 30 tear happiness streaming down her cheeks Mrs Ir Zachariah Whaley of oC lemp grandmother of Floretta hlo heard today that the time girl ha had been found Cound In San Francisco I That she was alive and happy outweighed nil all 01 else ele If lf she sine would only como ho homO home she sho ho said I I shall never nevor prosecute them I would soli not inot oven een force them to return But nut It If she sine will vill wi come caine she will wI meet no reproaches She bo knows that Sine She Sio an antho and tho the boby biby will wi be bo only welcome H Bur r room is ready Jendy for herThe her rOll Tho The time will wil come connie when she will wil ne need d me Tints man will not lo hove lovo loher her always He lie e may love her now but the tIne time will wi come when he will wi tiro tire of or her herThen Then sine bho will wU come back to me inc and m my homo home Is always open to her and to her child |