BROKEN TEXAN IDYLL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 722, 2 June 1923, Page 2

BROKEN TEXAN IDYLL.

BRITISH RX-SOLDIER AND CATTLE BARON 8 DAUGHTER. NEW YORK, March 22. ‘‘Enough lias been said about this matter. I do not euro to bavo anything further done.” In this way Alex Robertson, ex-gunner of the Royal Artillery, described his refusal to testify against John Ellis, a private detective, whom lie had previously charged with kidnapping hint to thwart bis love. alTuir with Miss Mary Culberson, only daughter of Senator Culberson, a Texas cattle and cotton magnate. According to the original complaint, Robertson, who had mot Miss Culberson in Texas, paid ardent court to Iter, and Ellis, engaged by the Senator to get Robertson onr of the country, took him lo Boston, intending to place flint in a boat bound for South America, but the intervention of Robertson’s aunt, Mrs Mary Andrews, brought the matter to the attention of the Ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddas, and the detective (led, setting Robertson free. Robertson then went to Washington at Sir Auckland Geddes’s request, and told his story, in which he said his captor twice tried to give him drugged liquor. During the investigation, the Senator’s secretary admitted that the Senator employed the detective to escort Robertson out of (ho country, but declared his instructions were merely lo see that Robertson left according to an agreement they insisted lie had made to leave voluntarily.