The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-22
MARRIAGE AND DEATH
The Sad Story of Helen Potts, Of
Ashbury Park.
She Loves and is Betrayed by Carlyle Harris, a
Medical Student-A Crime and Suspic-
ions Of Poisoning.
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatc

Especial to THE MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch
New YORK, March 21-The World to-day
Saturday publishes a remarkably sen
sational story which occupies six columns
of space 1t begins by recounting the cir
cumstances of the death by poisoning of
Helen Potts on February 1 last. The
Worlds story goes on to say: ST may be
remarked that after Miss Potts. death it
came out that young Carlyle Harris, the
young medical student who prescribed the
deadly pills for the girl, had been visitor
at Asbury Park during last summer, and
there had organized and conducted an asso-
citation clearly against the laws of that re-
liglous and rigorous community. In viola
ton of the borough ordinance liquor was
sold in the club room, and it was made a
rendezvous for porker players. The place
became SO offensive to the residents that
officers of the Asbury Park Law and Order
league decided to raid it. On August 90
last, the managers OF the club
were arrested on evidence furnished
by two New York detectives.
Harris. among others, was arrested aud
taken before a local iuatice of the peace.
His trial has not yet come Off The name
under which Harris was indicted was g..
w. Harris. The parents of the dead girl
| have secured copy of a marriage certif-
cate showing that Charles Harris and Helen
J Nelson were married on September "a, 1890.
| The date of the record was February 10,
| 1890. Mrs. Potts then went to Harris and
he made affidavit acknowledging that he
and Helen Potts had been secretly married.
"NOW comes the startling part of the
story. 1t is in the form of an affidavit
sworn to by Mrs. Potts March II of the
present year. In it she says she was sum-
moned to her daughters bedside last Au-
gust and found her daughters husband had
| to prevent a scandal, committed crime
Helen, after lowering between life and
death, was sent to the Comstock school
Harris said he intended publicly marrying
the girl in the fall Of this year.
SIN that portion of the affidavit,where the
death of Helen at the school is referred TO-
Mrs. Potts says: when we were on oul
way to my dead child he assured that il
was the druggists awful mistake but wher
they were taking his statement, and l saw
him take capsule from his pocket as if ht
had known it must be used as evidence,
heard him say he had the prescription filled
and pointed to the carefully marked
students prescription. | was so filled
with horror l dare not look up, and [ have
not been able to put the thought from mt
that if the right capsule had been useC
first and the poor girl had gone TO sleep d
the same time, she would have awakened
and the two pills he had would agree will
those remaining in the box
"Helen's uncle also swears that four OPP
erations were committed on the girl. Th
mother also makes long written state
ment in which she says: Soon after tn
marriage DR.. Harris received letter fror
wealthy society girl, saying she knew b
was in DO position to offer marriage to her
but offered her heart and fortune to him
swear this was the beginning of the trae
edy that cost my daughter her life and he
name The only inference to be draw
: from the story is that Harris, the medics
I student, deliberately murdered well con
, nected and admired society girl who foo
ishly became enamored OF him and Marie
him