Daily Republican., 1878-11-25
NEI&ON .. LEE,

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W~ws tne Hergiv euess VI his wife
MRS. Lee I'm Wilmington.
N For s0ine days past the air has beer
full Of ruinors discreditabl. to Nelson
J. Lee, q we'll known worker in til.
temperance cause, but which for pru
Dental reasons We did not wish to
make known through the columns o
the REPUBLICAN,, but since the mater
has bean given to 70 the public through
another p spsr, We feel at liberty to CIV.
q condensed statement Of what W.
knoS about especially as We have since
ascertained that the rumors are true.
Mr.. Lee Ii well known In this city
where he first labored as q room boz
din the cotton ifa6iory ofPuset Brothers
and having contracted the habit OF
drinking, hs afterwards reformed and
took an active part In the Temperance
work with George W. Wells, George
N. butcher and others.
When the Temperance cause hegan
to wane 10 Wilmington, Mr.. Lee with
his vile went 10 Baltimore, where hp
extended his labors to Annapolis, and
finally he located at Union Bridge, Car.
roll County, Maryland, until the 18th
Of September, when Mr.. Lse and his
wife mutually separated for q short
time, 70 allow her to visit her parents
In Vermont and he to visit his friends
at lacrosse, Wisconsin. Soon after Mr..
Lee left for the West there we're rumors
that he took with Kim lady by the
name OF Miss Ida PFoutz, and that they
were living AS man aud wifa at ths
town Of Sparta, Wisconsin. As long
back as last Wednesday Mr.. George W.
Wells called upon us with three letters
he had in his possession, which he de-
sired US to publish, but which as we
have already said we decliued to do,
hoping that there might he some mis-
take, or thinking that perhaps some
enemy was prosecuting MIR. Lee.
The following letter is from William
Delp-y Of baltimore, at whose house
Mr.. Lee and his vii. boarded several
weeks while in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, Mp, Nov. 10th, 1873
George W. Wells, Esq.,, Wilmington,
Dei.-DEAR SIR e: | write informing you
Of the tru. character of Nelson ]. Lee,
formerly your city. wrote a few
weeks since to Sparta, Wis, inquiring
about the reports circulated about Lee
and a Miss Ida Pfoutz, of Carroll coun.
ty, Md. 4 sent their photographs to
the postmaster at Sparta, and in reply
he stated that said Lee and Pfoutz
werr living at the hotel as man and
wife. You will find enclosed two let
ters | received from Sparta, and also
the photographs sent there, which
please to return after you read them
Also inform me, If Lee.was married to the
woman with him in Baltimore, as he
now states that she was only his mis-.
tess. ! am well acquainted with Miss
Foutz, the girl tina, Lee took away, and
a. she Is worth about 81, 900, it is my
impression that he wants TO beat her
out OF the money. Show Lee up in Will
mington a. q seoandr.l aud o fraud.
By answering this at your earliest con
venience, and sending the information
as requested, with the two letters and
pictures enclosed, you will greatly
oblis-, Yours respectfully,
WILLIAM DBLPHgY.
St. Louis Hotel, S. W. corner Howard
and Mulberry streets, Bait, Nd.
The following are the letters received
by Mr.. Delphey and referred to in the
above:
SPARTA, Wis, Nov. 7, ls7S.-M.
baltimore, M.-DEAR SIR: In
reply to yours of the 4th, would say
that man representing himself to be
N. J Lee is now stopping at the Win
ship house, in this city. He represents
himself to be a temperance worker, and
| guess 1t is the truth, for he has lsctur-
0 | In Lacrosse, Wisconsin, and Winona,
Mimi, during the past three weeks.
There is young lady with him that is
registered a. his wife, and 1t is the
same one that you enclose photo. Of.
The other photo is the exact likeness of
this man, Nelson J. Lee They get
mail for him in two names, one Mr.. W.
b. Fitzgerald aud Miss Ida PFoutz.
His mail was ordered put in the hotel
box. Tn. other they ask for. Some
times one comes for it, sometimes the
otter, and often together.
Yours truly, l.. s. FISHER, p. N.
SPARTA, WIS.,, Nov. l6, lS7S.-SIR;
write for the purpose, as | think, of
a wrong. Nelson J. Lee
and Miss Ida Pfoutz are here boarding
at the hotel, waiting for $2. 900, as she
claims, which is due her from the
East. They claim to be married, and
are living together as man and wife,
His wife, or other wife, he claims was
not wife, but mistress. but a letter
has been received from her in which |
she says she was married to Lee three
years ago. Now my opinion is, hes dig
,coundr-l; that the woman he had at
your house is his legal wife; that he is
after this girls money, and will drop
her whenever he gets 1t. II you know
ner friends You had better inform them
IT these facts and let them act Miss
Pfoutz is so infatuated with Lee IL will
De- hard to make her believe any wrong
n him. Yours, ETC.,
l.. s. FisHER, p. M.
This revelation will no doubt, aston
sh many people in Wilmington, but
# the correctness and trustworthiness
If the reports there can be no doult.
A representative OF the REPUBLICAN,
hearing that Mrs. N. J. Lee had arrived
II Wilmington, called upon that lady,
i the residence of Mrs. R. s. Kirby,
ao. 2O2 King street, this morning. In !
esponse to our inquiry as to tho truth
4 the reports about her husband, with {