The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-10
JUDGE C00LEYS SON
charged by His Wife with At
tempting to Cut Her Throat
n THE PALMER HOUSE, CHICAGO.
Mrs, Cooley aud Her Mother Tell
Their Stories and Create a Great
scandal...NIr. Cooley Says the Wo-
muu Followed Him aud Cocrced
Him Into Marrying Her.

CmcAdo, Ang. GA womnn's wild
,,ia. oi murder as she rushed frantically
through the halls of the Palmer house
saturday morning led to the unearthins
ofa sadly sensational story Of domestic
lie.
Those who responded to tho woman's
mad cries for help found in her room a
second woman, young and beautiful,
stretched at full length upon the floor,
where, in Il dishcveled state, she lay
.obbins convulsiyely, while q dark,
swarthy and determined-lOoking man
.,ool at one end Of the room. The man
was W. X. Cooley, of New Orleans, tho
yoppg pirl was his bride Of less than a
;o"r and the woman who claims 10
have prevented n possible murder was
the latters mother, Mrs. Sarah Casey,
Of Coyington, Ky.
Mr. Cooley is the son Of Judge
Cooley OF Ann Arbor, Mich, chairman
oi the Interstate Commerce Commis-
Mrs. Cooley is the divorced wife Of
MARI Elias. A well known book-maker
whose name is familiar one in Chicago
sporting circles as in Covington, KY,
where when she was his wife lie ran q
Nrs Casey claims that Cooley has re-
pcatedly attempted to cut her daugh-
iers throat with n razor, and that but
for her interference she would have
l,een killed last Saturday. AS it was,
the voung girl, she says, was twice
brutally strucl; almost senseless to the
floor. Cooleys rage resulting from his
wiies refusal to give him money.
Mrs. Cooley told her story with tear
iul ewes, and said her husbands cruelty
commenced two days after they were
married and has continued almost
daily. Mr.. Cooley was deeply agitated
npon learning that the affair had be-
come known. lie told his story, how
ever. with an air OF sincerity, tinged
throughout with the deepest regret at
his own folly.
"a year ago l met this woman, who
was visiting in New Orleans. In a short
time was astounded' to find that she
was in love with me. was forced to 20
TO Arkansas on business connected with
the British and American Mortgage
Company. She insisted upon being
with me at Hot Springs. When l went
to New York she went there also. She
was with me there for a month. Previ-
ons to that time she had separated from
her husband and sho then obtained
divorce. This was obtained by the per-
jury OF her mother and brother. Her
plcadings and the thought that
She had become divorced for
my sake caused me to yield
aud on the Sth Of last November we
we're married My life has been hell
on earth ever since. Her reputation
has preceded us, and l found myself an
OutCast in my own home. Her conduct
on the street made every one think her
an abandoned woman. Icould not sup
port her in the magnificent style she
desired. Her mother constantly urged
her TO leave Inc. Last Saturday Mrs.
Casey taunted nc about a young and
refined girl in New Orleans to whom l
was engaged before meeting her daugh-
ter, aud all that followed results from
insults directed at the young lady in
question.
my God, as I now look upon it, l
cannot understand how l ever fell SO
low as to let that women get me in her
clutches"
Late tonight, Cooley and his wife
made the following statement, which is
generally accredited:
AN article has just come to our no.
tiCe purporting to have been an inter
view relative to suit for divorce be-
tween myself and wife, which we deny
and denouncc as base falsehood.
Signed, MARY J. Cooley,
WM. II. Cooley.