Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-03
Democratic majority on joint ballot
THE MOEN MYSTERY.
Statements Contradictory of Wilson

Statements Contradictory of Wilson's
Story
| by telegraph to the RECoRD-USIoN.
WORCESTER Mass, December 2d.-The
records of the town of Oxford, Mass, show
that Levi Wilson was born there on De-
cember, 1853 eleven months after Mrs
Moen died.
| WILSON'S SISTERS INTERVIEWED.
PROVIDENCE Or. ~, December 2d.-A re-
porter of the Journal this evening inter-
viewed Mrs George NJ. Rice of Bridge,
| who has always been considered a sister of
Doc.n Wilson. To query if Wilson S
story was true, she returned an evasive an
swer. She would not deny that Wilson
told an untruth when he said she was not
his sister, nor would she contradict him in
the slightest particular, but gave the most
! unsatisfactory and evasive replies. Moth
| ing could pin her down to a simple yes
or no on any point, excepting one, and
Lthat was that Wilson had given her a
great deal of money, first and last, and from
| what he said she deemed he thought it
best that she should not talk about his
affairs. She remembered her fathers i'll
ness, but could not tell the year in which
| he died. All efforts to extract more from
her were in vain. All she would admit
was that her father was at one time a
church member, and that after he was
| taken i'll he often spoke to them on the
subject of doing right, and that Levi Will
son supplied her with money.
The Journal reporter saw Mrs. Young.
another sister of Levi Wilson, at Putnam,
| Conn, this afternoon. She stated that
| Levi was the son of Jonas Wilson, and that
her aunt was present at the time of his
birth He was named after her first hus-
| band, whose name was Levi Fessenden,
and her father and mother knew nothing
| about Moen for years after that
WILSON REITERATEs.
PROVIDENCE. December ID" Doc Levi
| Wilson was seen at the office of his coun-
| sci, George ]. West, this morning. He ap-
peared pale and haggard, as though he had
| passed a sleepless night. The excitement
| of the past few hours seems to have affected
him greatly, and he was nervous and appa-
rently worn out He says that now that
the secret is ont he felt better than he had
| since be was Il years of age. If, said
| he, " the Wilson's (meaning the people with
| whom he had lived during his boyhood
days) stand by me now | shall WIN my
case and triumph over Moen."
THE TRADITIONAL NURSE.
Miss Azenath Sampson, an aged nurse.
SAYS she went TO live in Ichabod Wash
burns family when Eliza Washburn,
Moons first wife, was only u years old.
| She has nursed and been intimate with
| both families from that time to this. Will
son has cut his own fingers in telling his
story, for such a story as he alleges could
not have taken place without her knowl-
edge, as she has nursed both of Moen 5
wives ct the birth of all his children, and
| has known him intimately since he was q
years old. He was always q kind, Just and
| upright man, and most loving husband
and father.
WILSON'S LAWYER GOES BACK ON HIM
THE ALLEGED SECRET.
PROVIDENCE (R. L., December 2d-Mid-
Hight.-George s. Hobbs. of Bridge, at one
time counsel for Levi Wilson, has been
placed in rather an unpleasant position by
the latter's statement. Wilson asserted
that Hobbs had papers in his safe which
would send Moen behind the bars as con-
Wet. and that he was the custodian of COM
munieaIions from Moen to Wilson, in
which the former addressed the latter as
" dear SON. Mr. Hobbs was asked to-
night what dependence could be placed on
Wilson's story concerning letters and pa
pers in his safe. He said: g emphatically
deny the whole thing from beginning to
end. It is false, and on par with other
palpable lies told by Levi Wilson. The only
documents have held, or now bold, with