Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-27
AT CANonc cHET.
Gov. sprasus Not to bs Seen, but DR..
Green Talks Freely-A Few Interesting
Points In the Case,

NEw YORK, December 26.-Iho Sdr
publishes q fve-column article on the
Sprasue-Conkling scandal, being the
facts ascertained by reporter during .
recent visit to Canonchet. Governo;
Sprague refused to be seen, but DR..
Green, the custodian Of the place,
talked freely. From all that could be
learned, it seems that Gov. Sprague
will defend the suit for divorce begun
by his wife vigorously, and there is
little doubt that he will make counter
charges of adultery in reply to hers OF
the same nature, and drag to the sur
face all the facts,-most Of them, pre-
OF a spicy nature, connected
with the extraordinary friendship of
Mrs. Sprague and Senator Conkling.
According to
The Story Told by Governor epragus's
Friends,
it appears that Mrs. Sprague drove her
son from her Washington home at the
request OF Senator Conkling. about two
years ago. She and Senator Conkling
arrived at the conclusion that the pres.
ence OF her little son Willie was obnox-
ious and distasteful to them, Conkling
urging that the boy too closely resem.
bled his father, and was cursed with .
spirit OF inquisitiveness, and prevailed
upon Mrs. Sprague to send him away.
She, in her blind and helpless infatua.
ton, complied, giving the boy $40 and
turning him out Of doors. telling him to
make his own way in the world. lie,
plucky little fellow as he is, went down
to the Holmes House, near the depot,
and secured board at s. week, paying
one weeks board in advance. The
house was freQuented by labor ng men,
and Willie there learned to chew tobac'
co. His identity became known at the
close of the week, and he was rescued by
friends. Since then his lot has been
rast with his father.
The Allegations IN Mrs. sprsgue's Bill
that Mr.. Sprague has been guilty Of adul-
terry with divers women, at divers times
and places. has raised storm OF indig.
nation in Rhode Island. The first wo-
man implicated is Mary Eliza Anderson,
nee Wall. She is now confined in the
Butler Asylum for the Insane, and cam
not refute the charges in person. Her
history, as gathered link by link, has
been an eventful one. She is as highly
as any woman in New Eng.
and. and was wont To move in the cir.
lies OF the first families. Her sister is
The wife of the Rev. DR.. Harris, OF the
Congregational Church, OF Providence,
who is looked upon As the leading divine
of the State.
Miss Wall Always Worshiped Mr..
tprague,
md her infatuation was the subject-mat.
.er OF conversation for all gossips, and
,he was derided for loving a man who
never cared straw for her. Her mind
became deranged, and she wentto Paris
There she established herself a leading
Of the demimonde, and num-
Dered her admirers Ivy the score. Some
hing like seven years ago she returned
20 her home, and married man by the
name OF Anderson, q sea.captain. With
lim che remained. presumably n true
wife. until her incarceration in the asy.
um.
Harriet Brown,
whose present whereabouts are un-
known, was for quite period amanu-
,nsis to Loyal Thurston, ChafIee's at
orney. Maggie English is thought te
De dead. She was at one time nurse
,irl in the family OF Mr.. Sprague,-
about twelve years ago. Fannie Adams
vas said to be an inmate OF one OF the
emples of shame in Providence, pre-.
vailed over by Ann NJ. Ballot. The lat.
.er woman swears like a pirate that
iov. Spracue was too kigh.toned to
,ver step within her doors. Minnie
Wilson has either gone to st. Louis or is
lead. At all events, her present
shereabouts cannot be ascertained.
She was also light-woman OF Proyi-
ience, 4. l.
The woman most affected by the
charges in Mrs. Sprague's bills is Mrs.
McCue, a married woman vi Wakefield,
K. |, who is we'll connected in New
York. She Was, four years previous TO
ler marriage, housekeeper in the
5prague family, and claims to have been
Mrs. Sprague's confidential adviser. She
las written the following letter:
WAKEFIELD, X. l., December 2l, 1880.
-MRs. SPRAGUE: see by the news
papers this morning that you have
made use Of my name as being guilty OF
,riminal intimacy with Gov. Sprauge
rom the year 1879. ] can't believe that
vou made such a statement, and desire
vou to contradict it. The intelligence
n the newspapers has made me 80 nerv.
BUS that | cannot dictate or write de.
cent letter. You know, Mrs. Sprague,
hat l am not Of that kind. There is
nothing in me but the truth, and the
truth | will speak until death. am
innocent, and God knows it. have
Iaith in God, and believe that he will
defend the right. God isa just ruler,
and he pays debt without money. You
must have given my name or it could
not have been used in the petition and
printed in the newspaper.
Why Did You Bay Such q Thing
about me? | never saw you and the
quarrel but once. ana that was
the evening you came to my room and
asked me to come up stairs and witness
your quarrel. That same evening
burned that gentleman's picture for you,
aud YOU burned the bag Of letters re.
ceived from him. Mrs. Sprsgue, 1
would have the last person u in.
lure you and your family. Please con-
tradict that Infamous lie. or ! shall be
compelled to defend my character.
ELIZABETH MCCrE
p. S.-IIave you any conscience lett
that YOU belle me in such manner? ?
Retract what you have said at once, or !
will make you regret having meddled
with nv character. Mrs McCUE.
The picture referred to is supposed to
be that OF Mr.. Conklin2, although. when
questioned on this point, Mrs. McCue
declined 10 answer.
Ex-Governor Scott Taken to Defiance.
TOLEDO, December 2.-General X. X.
Scott, who shot and killed W. u. Drury
at Napoleon, O., yesterday morning,
was last night taken 10 Defiance for sale
Laann;py in con onseouencp of the eYcite-