Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-28 | Page 13 | Arrest of Captain and Wife Stirs Washington Society

ARREST OF CAPTAIN AND WIFE j STIRS WASHINGTON SOCIETY is B I iTlHIMIHiH CAPTAIN Mi Mils. BIAEHLY (iilAYsON CHEW, j WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Army social so-cial circles here are a?og with r. Ite-1 Ite-1 mcnt over the arrest of a po)lur cap- I tain and World War hero, ami his wife, charged wfth the alleged theft; of thousands of dollars' worth of furs' I silverware, linen, cut glass and other! I valuables. The couple under arrest are Captain land Mr? Bi vcrly Grayson t'hew. They were arrested at thir apartment at tho iBellqvus hotel after Mrs Ida 17 g. Mc-CIIntT)ck. Mc-CIIntT)ck. of the fashionable Stoncleigtu apartment, which the captain and his' j wife liad occupied in September, dur-! I Ing her absence, had missed a Kus-. j slan sable stole valued by her at S10,-j 000 and other valuables. The authorities say that the s(oIen articles were found in the Chews' apartment and in trunks they had sent to tho railway station. Uoih Wane! ' then charged with grand larceny and placed under $26no bond each The preliminary hearing was set for No-I vemher 22 "It's absurd; my wife knew nothing' of the theft of these .tr-1 declares Captain '"hew, who also affirmed nia own Innocence. The Chews were popular and Attend- 'I many Korgcous entertainments. Mrs Mario Claybaugh, had lost a mSif skin coot at the Army and Navy cjfe a few niKhts before and she happen- I to remember that Che Chews were H there. After learning that tbey wero LH . harged with stealing furs, she notir fled the police. Mrs. Cla'UiUghVt sealskin was found, police say, in the Chew apartment aiel .la.-tn-.-r charge H filed. H ROSE FROM RANKS. Captain Chow rose from the ranks and went to Prance June 14, 1917. ills war record was so good thai he was one of the few civilians who re-main. re-main. .1 a captain In the regular army after the war ended. He. is now with the 1 2th Infantry at Camp Meade. .Mrs Chew is the daughter of an aristocratic Virginia family, her for-mer for-mer home being RIclmond. They were married hen- In 1917. fH