The Dickinson press., 1891-08-15
A Chicago Romance.

CHICAGO, Aug. "a woman's wild
cries OF murder angfrantically through
the halls of the Palmer House Saturday
morning, and led to the unearthing of a
sensational story of domestic life.
Those who responded to the woman's
mad cries for help found in her room q
second woman, young and beautiful,
stretched at full length upon the floor
i'll a desheveled state. She sat sobbine
convulsively while a dark, swarthy and
determined looking man stood at the
end OF the room. The man was W. X.
Cooley OF New Orleans; the young girl
was his bride OF less than a year, and
tie woman who claims to have prevented
q possible murder was the latter's
mother, Mrs. Sarah Casey of Coying.
TOT, ny. Mr.. Cooley is the nephew OF
Judge Cooley of Ann Arbor, Mich,
CHAIRMAN OF the inter. state 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 a razor, and that but for her
interference she would have been killed
last Saturday. AS it was the young
girl, II says, was twice Brutality struck
almost senseless to the floor in Cooley's
rage, resulting from his wife s refusal to
give him money. Mrs Cooley told hel
story with teurtul eyes. She said hel
husbands cruelty commenced two DAYS
after they were married, and has con.
tlnued almost daily. His cruelty
she SAID, has recently increased be,
cause L would not give him what little
money L have left. For him my dia,
monds are all pawned, and because
asked him to get u few of them at least
out ne attempted to kill me. l have nc
choice now but to seek for u divorce
although l dread to do So"
Mr: Cooley Was deeply agitated upor
learning that the affair had become
known. II met the woman who became
my, vile when she was visiting in New
orleans. In a short timeI was astouudec
to lind that she was in love with me. ]
Was forced to go to Akron on bushes.
connected with the British anc
American Mortgage Co. She in
sisted upon being with me a
Hot Springs. When l went to New
York, she went there also. She wa,
with me there for II month. Previou,
, TO that time she had separated from he:
husband, and she her obtained q di
r vorce. This was obtained by the per
, Jury OF her mother and brother. He
!. pleudlngs and the thought that she hat
become divorced for my sake, at las
caused me to yield, and on the Sth O
last November We were married. Eve
since my life has been a hell upol
: earth.
+ Her reputation has preceded us, an,
I l found myself al outcast in ny owl
home. Her conduct on I'll 9 street mad
i everyone think her an abandone,
$ woman: l could not support her in th
J. magnltlcence 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 come througI
such u reason. AT one time [ wa
engaged to marry one of the mos
beautiful and refined girls in New o.
leans, but my connection with thi
woman, who is now my wife, became S
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 | now look upo
1t, L cannot understand how L ever feI
SO low as to allow that woman to get IN
III her clutches"