Telegram-herald., 1890-03-01
SIXTY DAY BONDS
Charles A. Eaton's Case Disposed
OF Yesterday.
MRS. EaIOS WILL LREIURy 10 ENGLAND
Her Husband Finds the Necessary Bonds
man for sI00s ia the Person OF A.
bemer-his Parishi0nsrs ana
Nsstry still His Friends


II was hoped by the friends Of the
church that, after the immediate ex-
citement OF Mr.. Eat9n's arrest had died
down, his wife might be brought 10 see
another way out of the difficulty than
a resort to the criminal law. But that
hope was vain, and the law has taken
its course. As the TELEGRAM-liERALD
said yesterday, neither Mr.. Eaton nor
his friends have shown any disposition
TO eyade the facts. Consequently Mr..
Eaton went INTO court yesterday and
made full admission of the essential
truth of the averments contained IN his
wife's complaint His friend, A.
Beamer, became his surety IN the sum
of 800 for his peaceable behavior to-
ward all the world and especially to-
ward Eunice +. Eaton, for the period
of sixty days.
In view Of the far-reaching conse-
quences of this trouble, not only to the
individuals involved, but also the
parish, the feeling on the West Side
continues strong. The parishioners
the whole difficulty might have been
avoided, If those nearest TO the pastor
IN his extremity had treated his eccen-
trlc movements with fair degree of
enlightenment. 1t does not appear that
Mrs. Eaton is particularly malicious
toward her husband, but the parish
oners say that she lacks the breadth of
mind to take III the gravity of the situa-
ton. On Monday last, after she had
separated herself from her husband S
cOmpanionship, she signed the follow
ing self-explanatory document:
To the Vestry of 81. Paul's Church:
GENTLEMEN-I desire TO state 10 your
body that the reports that have been
circulated respecting one Miss Lizzie
Taylor, III which IT was made to appear
that Mr.. Eaton required her to get out
of bed and occupy the lounge IN order
that he might occupy the bed with Mrs.
Eaton, is untrue III every detail, and
furthermore that the report in which
she, Lizzie Taylor, has caused 1t to be
circulated to the best of our knowledge
that he returned home drunk and had
to be helped to bed is falsehood and a
lie; and ! further desire to state that
there has been no immoral conduct on
Mr.. EatOn's part on this or an other
occasion to the best of my knowledge,
and that | have no charge whatever to
prefer against him. In testimony of
this, here witness my hand IT, 9th
day OF February. 1890, ammo Donm:.
EUNICE FANNY EATON.
AS illustrative of the ways of Mrs.
Eaton, a prominent member of ST.
PauPs speaks thus freely; "Mrs Eaton
has been heavy load on her husband.
She is the most helpless person | ever
saw. She's English, and while she
drops her his she can't drop English
notions. She 'cawn't' do this and she
'cawn't do that. Several months ago
the ladies of the church offered to
furnish her with passage home TO Eng
land and supply her with the clothing.
etc, necessary for the trip. She agreed
to go, but when she learned that they
proposed to give her an intermediate
passage on the steamer, she refused to
go. 'Cawn't 60 intermediately, you
know she said, Il really cawn't do
that. Nobody but farmers and such
people travel intermediate. you know
This so disgusted the ladies that they
dropped the matter. The ladies are
now getting her ready to 90, but am
afraid she will back out"
During most of the present week a
number of ladies have been working at
the rectory to prepare Mrs. Eaton for
the trip TO England, but they finally
gave it up, when they saw that she was
taking all her advice from persons not
friendly TO the best interests of the
church and of humanity.
1t Is within the knowledge of the
TELEGRAM-HERALD that the use which
has been made of DR.. Fairs name in
connection with Mr.. Eaton's failures,
has been unfair and overdrawn, but il
was estopped from making any state
ment yesterday by the refusal of the
doctor 70 be interviewed. Every effort
was made Thursday evening to gain the
doctor ear sufficiently to obtain per-
mission To publish the facts that bear
upon these charges. But through some
motive. probably utter heavness OF
heart, he persisted in being absent to all
reporters. Yesterday the facts were OBJ
tanned from other sources. ". X.
Shelby is a vestryman of It. Mark :
Church and a member of the standing
committee OF the diocese. Yesterday
he stated 10 a TELEGRAM-HERALD re-
porter substantially as follows:
Nothing in the world could be more
unfair than the statement that Dr.
Fair has ever been hostile TO Mr.. Eaton.
In the initial proceedings looking to his
candidacy for the ministry, the doctor
was the first to befriend him and sign
MS papers. To my personal knowledge,
he has from time TO time gwen him ib-
eral pecunisTy assistance. and was to
him a tender friend and brother.
Whatever may have been the doctor
Official relations % the case within the
standing committee, u is not for me %
say. bat whatever they were. they sure
Iy were not inspired bv anv personal
hostility 20 Mr.. Katou. Dr. Far surely
ought 70 expect that people with whom
he has relations vii draw their own ln-
feTenccs from his conduct. but 20 take
every mans inference and publish u
% the world as und0ubtcd fact, IS alto
gether unjust. It. Pauls people are
drawing some very startling inferences.
as they have an undoubted right 70 do.
Tor their own private consumpto hut
% spread these differences abroad as
facts, while Withholding the essential
truth Of the matter. is very unjust t0 a
man of Dr. Fairs known breadth and
generosity