The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-06
All, THERE! HAMLET!
Read This and Then Let O'Conor Pla
You All He Likes.

Read This and Then Let O'Conor Play
You All He Likes.
To the Editor of the Jersey Cstv Ne,cs:-
DEAR S1R:-Your (enterprising) reporter
errs, as follows:-I am not "evide ntly a
mental wreck" 1 have no "woes" what
ever. My wife was truly very PALE" and
was, indeed. ''just recovering from sick
ness''-mostly mental. mark you. Hence
her '~'escapade i%mpromptu.' She had been
on and off deaths point for seven weeks,
and not s.two'' weeks only, as your (wide-
awake) newsgather has put it. The dis
putation" was mostly on my desire to
conciliate the press in general, towards
which my wife has ever been hostile.
bringing upon me, willing or unwilling. a
deserving hostility in return.
As your reporter truly reports 1t, my
wife was assuredly '.insane'' at the time
of her fitting from home.
The money! which your reporter says
1 spoke of as having been taken away by
my wife amounted to two dollars only;
and | entreat TIL NEWS to allow mt to
affirm that l never intended to impuRn
my dear wife's i~rrefragable honesty,
veracitv or integrity whatever. You Will
uOG U1uo peuCll tllS wien i ISl1 yOu Uudt
it almost drove her frantic on her return
home, and reading IL in your invaluable
diurna1. For when Mrs. O'Conor, out
West. left a purse with $500 worth of cou.
IONS in the cars, b Will assure you that
/. tho grieved and ~pecuniarily embar-
raised, did but gently and tenderly con-
sole and reassure her in her dilemma
th.n and there.
If was at all .s;ncoherent" at the inter-
view in question, 1t was simply because
I had feared that my wife had contem-
plated suicide. Both OF us have been
both OF US suffered almost intolepable
mental agony, and L had resolved on a
Boulanger exit in case my wife had made
an end of herself.
That was all Of my alleged "evident
mental wreck"
I never was married before; she was my
first and my only love, and / am her sec
ond husband, whom she u~nreServedIy
loves, honors aud obeys.
The tattle about Beecher and Greeley is
gafbled a bit. / was indeed the protege
of both OF them; but ! was no Boswell to
either. Greeley said to me that my frs
proposed quasi editorial Tor the (since
somnolent) Tribune was like unto a plum
pudding. But, ma! hal that it was all
plums, heighol He taught me (what De-
mosthenes taught Cicero,of old) that my
CnleI Literary IAulG Was my over AH1pIlu-
cation. Il never Reid the Tribune now,
alack.)
Beecher said to me that he memorized
what inc when he could; l told him that
/ merely memorized my notes from a
single visiting card, and became the verb
est of Quakers afterwards And he did a
free outlaw.
Longfeliow cautioned me never to
write poetry sunless the mood absolutely
compe&ied;'' and my father said the stage
would make me madi
When Mrs. O'Conor fled I was not ine-
briated. l had p%artaken. ! confess, of
some champagne with u manager. aud
was jubilant. Observation-Disclosures.
Your life reader and advertiser.
JAMES OWEN O'CoNoR,
Al Storm avenue, Oct. 5, 1891.
T. S.-Indulge me to say that DR.. VIM.
l.. Pyle of AIS Bergen avenue has read the
foregoing, and can vouch for its absolute
verify. He saved my wife from an almost
frreparahle typhoid fever and brain trou-
bles, and can testify to the love, truth
and utter sympathy hat obtains between
my dear wife and myself.