Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-07 | Page 1 | Hubby Searches for Man Who Stole His Wife

HUBBY SEARCHES STOLE HIS WIFE Chemist Uses Pistol to Force Husband to Surrender Claim to Woman CHICAGO, Jan. 7. Search for Pierre Pi-erre I'aul Anther and Mrs. Charlotte Yansen, the former, eharged with1 grand larceny, by Phillip l-'ranzen. jf Madison Wis., for the "theft'.' of his wife, shifted today to Philadelphia. F'.oth Pransen and Mrs. Anther, who with her 4luid. lives in Highland Park, a suburb, declared their hellcf today thai they were victims of an "Enbchj Arden pioi " Brahsen aald he believed Iwb pear were In Philadelphia. The warrant sworn to by Pran.en, Who is chief decorator at the I'niver- lis of Wisconsin, charges Anther, a, cHemlst, who If Said tQ have repre-j Rented himself as a scion kit Spanish 1 granaees, with stealing charlotte I Pransen at the point of si pistol" and eompelling hei husband to gi e him a cheok for $100 last Tuesday night for their honeymoon. Pranseq further alleges that Aulh- 1 dei lared he had married Mrs. Fran,- sen thirteen years ago in Australia. lb- declared that Auther forced him and bis wife lo sign documents waiving all claim to each other or their pos-; sessions. The husband said he believed be-lieved the story of the Australian marriage until Mrs. Auther communicated communi-cated with him and said .sin suspect ed his wife of trying to "steal" her husband. Kran.en's wife left their son With him. Mrs. Auther. of Scottish birth, was orphaned and then reared under direction direc-tion of a priest in Montreal, she said. She was a Canadian war nurse overseas, over-seas, was decorated for bravery by the British government aftu- she had' won a lieutenancy by her work In ltelgluni and France, but hei Bight was impair ed by a slight accident, she i-ald, and she came to the L'nitC4l States. S'he met Anther while both were employed l the du Pont Powder company .it Pompton Lakes, X. J , and they were married August 13, 1918.