The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-08-15
A Chicago

CHICAGO, Aug. "a woman's wild
cries of murder rangfrantically through
the halls of the Palmer House Saturday
morning, and led to the unearthing of q
sensational story of domestic life.
Those who responded to the woman's
mad cries for help found in her room .
second woman, young and beautiful,
stretched at full length upon the floor
in a desheveled state. She sat sobbing
oonvulsively while q dark, swarthy and
determined looking man stood at the
end of the room. The man was w. Z.
Cooley of New Orleans; the young girl
was his bride of less than a year, and
the woman who claims to have prevented
a possible murder was the latter'e
mother, Mrs. Sarah Casey of Coving-
ton. KY. Nj. Cooley is the nephew Of
Judge Cooley of Ann Arbor, Mich,
chairman of the interstate commerce
commission. and Mrs. Cooley is the
divorced wife of Mark Elias.
Mrs. Casey claims that Cooley has re.
peatedly attempted to cut her daughters
throat with q razor, and that but for he,
interference she would have been killed
last Saturday. As it was the young
girl, she says, was twice brutally strucA
almost senseless to the floor in Cooley
rage, resulting from his wife 8 refusal te
give him money. Mrs. Cooley told hel
story with fearful eyes. She said hel
husbands cruelty commenced two day
after they were married, and has con
tinued almost daily. Ellis cruelty,
she said, has recently increased be
cause I would not give him what littl,
money I have left. For him my dia
monds are all pawned, and because
asked him to get q few of them at leas
out he attempted to kill me. I have NJ
choice now but to seek for q divorce
although I dread to do So"
Mr.. Cooley vas deeply agitated upol
learning that the affair had become
known. II met the woman who becsm'
my wife when she was visiting in New
Orleans. In Q short time was astoundet
to find that she was in love with me.
was forced to go to Akron on bushes
connected with the British an.
American Mortgage 90. She in
sisted upon being with me a
Hot Springs. When I went to Ne,
York, she went there also. She wa
with me there for u month. Previou
to that time she had separated from he
husband, and she then obtained q di
vorce. This was obtained by the pei
Jury of her mother and brother. he
pleadings and the thought that she ha'
become divorced for my sake, at Las
caused me to yield, and on the sth Q
last November we we're married. Eve
since my life has been q hell upo,
earth.
Her reputation has preceded us, an
I found myself an outcast in my ow:
home, Her conduct on the street mad
everyone think her an abandone
woman. I could not support her in tn
magnlficence she desired. Her mothe
constantly urged her to leave me. Gu
troubles have not been because Iwante
her money, and the trouble Saturda
morning did not ZONE throug
such = reason. At one time I WI
engaged to marry one Of the mos
beautiful and refined girls in New o.
leans, but my connection with thi
woman, who is nov my wife, became 9
notorious that the engagement wa
broken. Last Saturday Mrs. Case
tainted me with this bit of my life, an
all that followed resulted from the in
suits they directed at the young lady i
question. My God, as I now look upo
it, I cannot understand how I ver fe
SO low Of to allow that woman to get m
in her clutches"