The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-28

Explanation of the Actions of Mrs. Cora
Burgess, of Cleveland.


The appearance in this city OF Mrs. Cora Bur
CESS. handsome woman of Cleveland, has
been the cause OF correspondence by wire
between the chiefs of police OF Denver and
Seattle. She arrived in Seattle Sunday night
and her husband, now in Denver, whom she
LETT because OF his drunken habits, has been
stirring up sensation. The following
Associated Press dispatch was printed in the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Monday morning;
DENVER, Oct. 25-W. II. Burgess, the travel.
ing agent of furniture company OF Cleveland,
arrived here this morning and secured the ar
rest OF eX-Paying Teller stem, OF the National
Exchange bank OF Cleveland, the charge of
eloplng and living IN adultery with his wife,
Cora Burgess.
stem has been here three weeks and admits
that ne has lived with this woman, but denies
he eloped with her. They LETT Cleveland to-
gether on september o. coming direct TO
LETT mere tour days ago for Seattle, where she
has sister. Burgess believes she is hiding il
Denver, and he viii endeavor TO ind her. In
any event, he viii prosecute stem.
Chief OF Police Rogers received a dispatch
from the chief OF police OF Denver yesterday
morning, asking if Mrs. Burgess was in the city.
Detective Cudihee located the woman in room
50, OF the Squire-Latimer block, where
she is living with her sister,
Mrs. A. V. Clifford, and is serious
ly i'll, due. Mrs. Clifford, says, to
nervous prostration consequent upon the
above dispatch. Word was Immediately re-
turned to Denver that the woman sought was
In the city. Late last evening another dispatch
was received from Denver, stating that it had
been reported that Mrs Burgess had attempted
suicide.
Observation-Disclosures reporter called at the
womans room with the dispatch and was met
by A. F. Clifford, a real estate man, the brother
in-law OF Mrs. Burgess. He stated that there
was not a shadow OF truth in the report
that his wife's sister had attempted her own
life, and he further disputed the story OF Mr..
Burgess and the statement made in the dispatch
as being without the slightest foundation.
''My wife has been East for more than six
months" said Mr.. Clifford, land during the en-
tire time she was the guest OF Mrs. Burgess. She
returned Sunday night, and her sister
accompanied her and will make her home
with us hereafter. She left her hus-
band because by his brutality and
habitual drunkenness he made life her unbear-
able He said that if she left him he would
harrass her and either ruin her life or cause her
10 return to him. He has but commenced to
carry his threats into execution, and there is no
telling what more he will yet do.
How about this man stem?' was asked.
''Mr. stem is a banker and an old friend of
the family. My wife has been the constant
companion of Mrs. Burgess during the past
six months and she knows positively
that no criminal relations could have existed
between her and Stem. Besides, we have Mrs.
Burgess word that the story is false. and that
is worth all the evidence in the world to the
contrary"
But Stem admits that he lived with her,"
was suggested.
II don't believe it," emphatically said Mr.
Clifford. "Mr. Stem has my highest regards, and
a. an old friend he is esteemed by my wife and
Mrs. Burgess. Ii is without hesitancy that say
that the newspaper man who wrote that dispatch
msquotei him either purposelyor inadvertently
Probably it was written on the strength OF a
story given by Burgess"
Detective Cudihee, who and talked to
Mrs. Burgess, does not credit the report that she
ATTEMPTED suicide.