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Show FORCES HER TO ELOPE Seventeen - Year - Old Mother Tells of Being Compelled to Run Away With a Miner Couple Were Headed for Ogden to Visit With Friends RtiTte, Mont . Aug. 8. As she cuddled cud-dled her 4-monfh-old baby and kissed it with a mother's fervor. Mrs Kva Fanirh, a trim appearing little woman of 17 years, told last night how she had been Induced to elope with Edi Dropolrh. aged '5. a Kiant miner Mrs Fnnih was found missing from her home by her husband when he returned from work. The woman and Dropolch were arrested In Pocatello, where the husband followed and after locking the runaway couple In a hotel room he summoned the deputy sheriff Dropolch is held at the count jail without bonds A reconciliation between be-tween husband and wife occurred yesterday morning Mrs Fanirh said she was forced to get out of bed. dress herself and baby and accompany her alleged kidnaper to the lower depot and there board a train for Park Ity, Utah The woman, wom-an, who speaks English with difficult, diffi-cult, arted out how Dropolch awakened awak-ened her and then, showing her a gun, threatened to kill her and then commit suicide if she did not agree to accompany him "I was afraid of him: he was big and had a gun. so I fixed up the baby and went to the train, and all the time I wanted to get back to my husband with the baby, but he watched me. ' said the woman as she sat on a cot at the emrgency hospital, crying gently over the infant She was anxious that her husband be given the full story so that he might not accuse her of running away voluntarily. volun-tarily. When I looked at the gun I had to go," she said. 'Tho woman loed me and was willing to go, in fact ,she asked me to go with her" said Dropoicb through an interpreter when questioned ques-tioned by Deputy County Attorne Harry Meyers and Deputy Shorltt Larkm I drew $200 from the post al savings bank and purchased two tickets. If Mrs Fanich had wanted to quit at any time she could have, as we met several policemen at the depot. We were going to Utah" He declared that Mrs. Fanich was to blame for the runaway, although he admits that he had upwards of 8400 v. Ith him and that he bought the tickets and paid all expenses incurred while in Pocatello It appears that their destination was Ogden, where Dropolch had friends, but It was decided de-cided to stop at Pocatello tor a time to avoid arrest In his possession when placed under arrest were two postal bank deposit receipts for $100 eich, and he also had $56 In cash. No gun was found on the man and he denied having one. Dropoich said he had no knowledge of the woman's marriage In Finland, and asserted he did not think he was doing wrong when he left with the woman. Dropoich formerly workpd In Pari; City ra;nes and intended to make his home there with Fankh's wife, ho said. The woman in the case has been in Butte a little more than a year and Dropoich has known her the greater part of that time. The husband and the eloper me' i'i the countj attorney's office and they rearly came to Mows when Dropolch accused the husband of knowing that be and Mrs Fanich Intended to leave Dropolch asserted repeatedly that .Mrs Fanich liked him John Fanich has visited bis wife and baby at the emergenc hospital and has asked the authorities to release re-lease his wife, saving that he will forgive her Her ball has been fixed at $250, and until she Is able to fur nish that amount she will be detained Dropoich Is held the countv jail without ball on a charge of grand larceny, the complaint having been sworn to b Fanich. The wife of the latter Is but 17 years of age. Fanich afserts that Dropoich took $200 of his money Dropoich says that he drew $200 from the postal savings bank |