From The Miami News
Miami, Florida
19 April, 1910

Tampa Man is Duped
By Red Haired Woman
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SHE WAS AN ACTRESS AND AFTER
CHARMING THE CABINETMAKER
SHE WENT AWAY WITH HIM TO BE HIS WEE
DARLING LITTLE WIFE-- AND
SKIPPED WITH COIN.
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   The Atlanta Constitution says:
   Mourning the loss of his promised wife, $950 in cash, and a diamond ring, J. T. Gilleland, a young cabinet maker of Tampa, Fla., formerly of Atlanta, has appealed to the police department of Atlanta for aid, and every effort is now being made by the officers to locate the woman in the case, Miss Ethel Evans, a handsome red-haried actress.
   This young lady is alleged to have disappeared with the ring and the money while the two, en route to her home in California to be married, stopped over in Atlanta to allow Gilleland to visit his mother.
Detectives at work.
   Gilleland’s story as told the Atlanta police, has just leaked out. The alleged robbery occurred on Friday, and since that time Detectives Coker and McGill have been at work on the case. They are said to be in possession of a good clew[sic] to the woman’s whereabouts, and there is reason to believe that her arrest is assured. She is thought to have left for Chicago, where she is said to be known as Dorothy Maitland.
   Gilleland met the red-haired actress in Tampa some time ago, and after he had become enamored by her charms and looks, and had won her promise, she made plans, it is said, for the marriage to occur in her old home, which she claimed was in Oakland, Cal.
   According to the plans, Gilleland was to stop over in Atlanta and pay his mother a visit. At this point in the program, according to Gilleland, Miss Ethel gave him the slip.
Actress Got Jealous.
   Upon arriving in Atlanta, Gilleland registered his bride-to-be at the Marion hotel; saw that her every comfort and wishes were given attention, and then took a car and went out to see his mother at the home of his childhood on Hemphill avenue.
   With Miss Ethel he had entrusted his pocketbook, containing exactly $940, it is said, and among other presents, she wore a glittering solitaire on her finger, representing an outlay of about $350.
   Upon returning to the hotel Friday evening from the visit to his old home, Gilleland was shocked to find the fair Ethel gone. A little note left in her room explained that she had found sudden cause for jealousy, and that she was returning to Tampa. But the roll of money and ring were not with the note.
   Investigation made by the detectives disclosed the fact that the woman left the Terminal station at 5 o’clock Friday afternoon with Chicago as her destination. Among other names the woman is said to [line of type missing here] chival.”

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010