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Show SALT LAKE SENSATION OfflllTElii AND MULATTO Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 24. Mrs. Hood surrendered to the police soon after noon today. She confirms Dodds' story, according to tho police. Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 24 Raymond Dodds, the mulatto said to have compelled Mrs. Viola Hood of San Diego, Cal., to elopo with him, walked Into tho Salt Lake pollco station sta-tion at 10:15 thlB morning and surrendered sur-rendered himself. Dodds said ho read in a newspaper this morning that the police were seeking him and decided to give himself up to avoid trouble. He says Mrs. Hood urged him to leave San Diego with her and that ho did not use any threats tupon her. He says they arrived here from Los Angeles An-geles together last night and remained remain-ed at a hotel. Dodds was taken In hand by detectives at once and officers of-ficers went to get Mrs. Hood. The officers who went to get Mrs Hood reported at 11 o'clock that she was not at the hotel where Dodds said she was and that she was not vlth him at a hotel last night, as he declared. Dodds staj-ed at a rooming house for colored persons and now sayj he sent Mrs. Hood to another hotel. A local negro says he overheard over-heard the two talking together last night when Dodds urged Mrs. Hood to take a train out of town at once Mrs. Hood has not been found and a largo detail of officers is at work to ascertain whether she left town alone or met with violence at the hands of Dodds. A search for Mrs. Hood proved without result until about 12-30 this afternoon, when she walked Into the police station. She confirmed Dodds' story, according to the police, and says she will return to San Diego, if desired, on condition that Dodds be set at liberty so he may go to Chicago. Chi-cago. The police also say Mrs. Hood said their plan was to be married here under assumed names and make their home in Chicago. She told them Dodds had her driven to a local rooming room-ing house after they arrived here last night. |