Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, October 4, 1919, p. 6. Deserter Found on Honeymoon. Virgil Dobbs, of Smithville, was arrested at Indianapolis last week as a deserter from the army. Military police found him at a hotel where he was spending a honeymoon of two weeks, following his marriage to Ruth Thompson, of Lawrence county. The young man is accused of deserting from a camp at Norfolk, Va., last month, where he was a corporeal in the medical corps. He was wearing a lieutenant's uniform when arrested. Dobbs is said to have been married before to a girl in Chattanooga, Tenn., but claims to have divorced her. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.