Girl-Wife Of Captured Outlaw To Be Returned To Pine Grove, Ohio
Portsmouth Daily Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, 10 June 1927
Ray and Roy D’Autremont, pleaded not guilty when arraigned today on a charge of robbing a mail train in Oregon. Bonds were set at $50,000 each, and they were remanded to jail to await transportation to Jacksonville, Oregon, for trial.
Mrs. Hazel Goodwin, pretty wife of Ray D’Autremont, one of the bandit twins captured here yesterday by government secret service agents, was sent back with her infant son to her parents at Pine Grove, Ohio, Lawrence this afternoon.
Federal authorities handed her the $250 found in her husband’s pocket. With her, she took an autographed photograph of her husband, sent her from jail, and bore the strange name to her until his arrest.
The inscription on the picture read: “To my loving wife, Hazel. Because I love you, take good care of Jack. God bless your parents.” Ray Charles D’Autremont signed it. Ray D’Autremont married the girl 18 months ago at Greenup, Ky., under Clarence Goodwin. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sprouse of Pine Grove, Ohio.
The D’Autremont brothers found working at the Wheeling Steelworks here, have refused to tell authorities where they were between the train robbery and the time they entered Ohio. The only information they would reveal begins with their sojourn between Ohio and Kentucky cities along the Ohio river.
Worked in Portsmouth
They worked in Portsmouth, Ironton, Hanging Rock, and Pine Grove for a time. Ray’ D’Autremont resided at Pine Grove for two years. He worked there cutting ties. He also helped dismantle a furnace at Hanging Rock. While working at Pine Grove, he met, wooed, and won his 18-year-old wife.
“Mrs. Hazel Goodwin” took their year-old baby to the cell for a brief visit today. She has kept house for the two brothers since they settled here last January. “
My mistake was in marrying Hazel,” declared Ray D’Autremont to the police. He then told how he had planned to marry at the first opportunity so that he could settle down somewhere and not create suspicion.
“My wife is the finest little girl you ever met,” Ray continued. “I shouldn’t have married a girl like that. I should have married someone who wouldn’t care and one that I wouldn’t care so much about. As it is, I am leaving a young and splendid girl alone with her baby in a strange town. She can’t and won’t understand,” he said.
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