Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-14
Marriage a Failure?
It Appears That Some People
Think 1t Is.
A LETTER FROM ONE or THOSE

Who Has Evidently Had Enough for This
Time-The Document Gets the Writer
Into the Tombs at New York on "A Charge
of Observation-Disclosures Iufelicity Of
the Son of the Late Emory Storrs.
NEW YORK, May 14-George NJ Storrs,
of Chicago, son of the late Emory A. Storrs,
the famous Chicago lawyer and politician,
was arrested in Mount Vernon yesterday
morning by detectives upon an Indictment
charging him with an attempt to blackmah
his wife, Aileen f. Storrs In the after
noon, while he was waiting in the district
attorneys office to get bail, a deputy sheriff
served him with the papers in a suit for a
limited divorce and alimony, instituted by
his wife, with an order of arrest, as he is
nonresident Thereupon he gave up the
idea of securing bail. Being taken before
Recorder Smyth he pleaded not guilty to the
Indictment for attempting blackmail, AMI
was committed to the Tombs to await trial.
Letter That Is Model.
Though the discord between young Stofrs
and his wife began several years ago, to-
days trouble was precipitated upon him by
his wife on account, mainly, of the following
letter that he sent to her from Chicago:
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-AILEEN: For the first
time since you left this city have seen Mr.
and Mrs. Guest, and know, not from their lips
alone, but also from word which have got
from New York, that you are about the dirti-
est little cur that ever lived You spoke truly
when you told me some eight weeks ago that
you had simply lured me on to get even with
me- know you thoroughly. You are an un-
fit person to be the custodian of an innocent
little child. You have tried to poison his mind
against his father, and you have attempted to
keep him away from me- When went to
Essex went there with sufficient funds to
have more than paid any necessities which
you might have.
You are thoroughly under the control of this
blackguard Stafford. You have no mind of
your own. You are a weak. abandoned wretch.
i know your whole Lying family. and have left
no stone unturned to prove every word say
that you all a bad lot. know your sis
ter's reputation in Essex, and il is surprising
to me that Stafford, after your telling people
In this city that he is the head of your family
should compel you to come back to me to get
out of me-whatY All u'could. What more
might miserable skunk ask of you? What
sort of a gang have ! not got into? You are a
delightful lot. If had not been compelled to
marry you by Stafford, with threats, where
would you have been to-day? | know enough
of you latterly that almost feel myself unfit
to speak with honest men after having lived
with such matchmaking adventures like
you. Even the little boys at Mrs. HUNTS
house, where we lived, tell me of the "snaps"
you had put up on me.
You are ht, Aileen, only for the life from
which took you. Go to il, and, if you wish to
drag the child's name down, do so. but l will
have him. Will not let you damn him. There
will be a law passed in the next Legislature of
New York legitimiZing children born out of
wedlock, and when that law comes | shall
hunt you olt to the uttermost ends of the
earth. and l shall get the child which YOU
claim to be mine. l shall not spare myself or
one cent of money to at last let the world know
what you are and what your past career has
been, and how you came to this city the city
of my boyhood, and attempted to play upon
my weakness. 1t sickens me to write to you
know you as you are, unfit to be the mother
of a child-the child that will have if he is
mine, if live three months longer.
GEORGE NJ. STORRS
dictated to stenographer)-l have written
TO Stafford to-day your MENTOR, and If you do
not at once come to terms viii give you such
a dose as you never had before. / want the
chiid and my property-blame yourself for the
consequences. You can save me expense by
acceding to my wishes. l shall go for you any
way, and Stafford and your miserable sister
are the ones propose to have come to time.
g, NJ. s.
Some Facts in the Case.
The Stafford referred to in the letter is E
Fl. Stafford of Essex, Essex county, N. Y,
Mrs. Storrs' brother-in-law, with whom she
sought refuge, she says, from her hus-
bands cruelty, taking with her Emery A.
Storrs Jr., her only child who is said to be
very beautiful boy, now 81 years old
About twelve years ago, before young Storrs
was out of his teens he got into serious
trouble with Minnie Cummings, who later
was on the stage in this city. The boy be-
came infatuated with the black-eyed young
woman, who then lived in Chicago, and for
awhile he was in her company most of the
time. One day Miss Cummings made great
sensation by bringing civil suit for dam
ages against Lawyer Storrs on the ground
that his son had enticed her to the lake front
and there, after promising immediate mar
riage, had attempted to assault her Law
yer Storrs announced vigorously that the
case would be fought-but it never was heard
of again.
Mr.. Storrs after his committal denounced
with great scorn the imputation of black
mail. He said that the only object of his
wife and her friends was to get possession of
the child for the sake of the money that the
grandmother left
An Iowa Mob Disappointed.
LACROSSE, Wis, May l4-Mrs. Tripp,
lie So.