File:Colored Deacon Held As Eloper in the Times Union of Brooklyn, New York on December 2, 1925.jpg

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Colored Deacon Held As Eloper. Left Wife and Four Children, Is Charge. Patchogue, New York; December 2, 1925. Richard Smith, colored, of Bellport, a leading member of the congregation of colored people who hold services in a small church here, was held in $500 ball Monday by Justice of the Peace Marchant at Yaphank on a charge of deserting his, wife and four children. When Smith, who is deacon by his colored brethren, disappeared three weeks ago, a young colored woman, employed here by a white family, also vanished. At first nothing was thought of the matter, but when gossip, connected the pair, the Chief of Police of Englewood, New Jersey, was requested to call at the home of the young woman and learn if she was there. The answer was that she had married a Bellport man named Smith and was living with him in Englewood. With a warrant for Smith's arrest. Constable Glover visited the Englewood home of the woman and it Is charged, found Smith posing as the husband of the former Bellport domestic.

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