Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-15
ROMANTIC CASE OF PRISONER NEW
MAN

WASHINGTON, Nov 14.-Marion D. New
man, the matrimonial adventurer who was
arrested last Saturday, has been commit
ted to Jail in default of bond. Letters are
being received by the police from various
cities asking for description and photo
graph of the prisoner. His descrip-
ton will be furnished most Of the
applicants, but his picture will be
furnished only in exceptional cases.
The latest letter was received from
Harrisburg, Pa, where the officials are
very anxious to get his picture, although
they do not say for what purpose they
want it. All the letters OF the prisoner,
as we'll as those sent by him TO Mrs. Kate
Smith. are still in the hands Of the police.
One of the women who corresponded with
Newman was seen this morning be Detec-
tive Raft, OF the city police. She Is a de-
partment clerk. She admitted the pris-
oner had visited her. on two occasions.
She regarded him as "a highly edu-
Gated gentleman. She was very DESTROYS
OF getting back her letters, but the officer
still retains them. In most instances the
letters are signed by the woman who
the officers discovered that fictitious
names were signed. 1t is probable that at
the hearing in the police court next Tues
day the letters will be offered in evidence
and made public.
Mrs Kate Smith, who caused the ar
rest of the man with many aliases, is said
to be kentuckian by BIRTH She is en-
plyyed on one of the numbering presses III
the government printing Office. She is
said to have a good voice, and has taken
part IN many concerts in this city. IL is
now charged that Newman has previously
figured in similar escapades, and
that he is the same individual
who, in 1850, was sailing, IN,
der the name OF Dallas NJ. De
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and had license to preach near
Camden, n. j. In August of that year he
disappeared. A note from him addressed
to one of his parishioners and his hat
were found a Philadelphia and Camden
ferryboat. and as the hat had his name in
it, and the note stated that he was going
to commit suicide, as his troubles We're
more than he could bear" it was taken
for granted he had done so. De Hughes
wife had brother who was man.
ager of the Prudential Life Insurance
company's office in Philadelphia. In that
Office there was employed prepossessing
young woman, who disappeared simultap-
eously with the minister. 1t had been
noticed that on the occasion of his calls on
his brother-in-law, De Huges took an in
terest in this young woman. The colnci-
dence OF this disappearance caused COM
ment, but there were no facts discovered
to warrant concluding that they had
eloped.
During the summer of 1881, however, the
young woman in the case returned to
Philadelphia and confessed that she had
run away with De Hughes, and said they
had lived in St. Louis, where he practiced
law. She said he deserted her, pre-
sumably for another woman. On hear
ing these reports the conference, in
Nothing more was heard of him until the
arrest of Newman here last week, and his
confession that one of his aliases is De
Hughes. He answers the description of
the clerical De Hughes, and is supposed to
be the same man. The wife whom De
Hughes deserted in 1880 was, when last
heard from living in Cinnaminson. y. ].