Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
NO LOVE LETTERS YET.
Marie Blaine Has Been Persuaded
Not to Have Them Published.
SHE YIELDED WITH RELUCTANCE.
Her Counsel Advised Her to Stand on Her
Decision in Court.
RUNoRED OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE day after
the publication Of the reply which Secre-
tary Blaine felt impelled to make to the
Judge who granted divorce to Mrs New
ins Blaine, q dispatch appeared in the
papers signed BY the divorced wife.
She called upon Mr.. Blaine to publish
in full the correspondence from which e1-
tracts had been quoted in his letter, and
she said that unless he did this in ten DAYS
she would herself give to the world the en-
tire correspondence. The ten days have
quite elapsed, but it is not likely that Mrs.
Nevins Blaine will make another state
ment
Since she has been in New York she has
been quite ill, and was prostrated with a
fainting fit, although there was some intima-
tion that she may have been suffering from
an overdose Of morphine taken to alleviate
neuralgia pains.
Mr.. Blaine Has Said All He VIII.
One of Mrs Blaine's legal advisers was
greatly distressed when he saw the state
ment which appeared over her signature in
reply to Mr.. Blaine's letter, and this man
felt that any further statement by his
client would be inopportune and would
tend to perhaps create a prejudice against
her. He therefore determined to advise
her both as q counsel and friend against
the issuing of any such statement. He
knew very we'll that Mr.. Blaine, having
said all that his devotion to his wife and
family made it necessary for him to say,
would be likely to take no notice of Mrs.
oh Ho
pleaded with his client as soon as she ar
rived in New York, and be at first found
her very set in her purpose to publish all
the love letters and to set forth in great de-
tail the miserable story of the domestic
trials of herself and her late husband
The counsel then said to young Mrs
Blaine that the publication of any state
ment would be likely to injure herself, or
at least to cause q reaction from public
sentiment such as was voiced in the opinion
of the South Dakota Judge. He said to
her:
Tho Argument OF Her Counsel.
'eYou have taken your case into court;
you have produced your evidence; on it
you have been sustained by the court, and
you certainly ought to be satisfied with the
opinion expressed by the Judge. You have
won your case, and with it you ought to be
content Why should you appeal from a
court that has decided in your favor, to a
newspaper controversy. To begin contro-
versy will not only weary those who have
already become tired of this affair and of
seeing it mentioned in the papers, but will
also give rise to the suspicion or accusation
that you do not feel fully vindicated by
judicial finding in your favor. For your
own sake it would be far better to. let the
matter drop where it is. If anything is said
in private which reaches your ears, or there
appears in the pSpers anything which
seems to be an accusation, all that you need
do is to say, The courts have heard the
evidence in this matter, and have vindi-
Gated me-"
Mrs. Blaine was at last brought to see the
force of this presentation by her counsel,
and gave him and her friends to understand
that she would take this advice and let the
matter drop where it is now. She is, how 4
ever, an impulsive woman, somewhat arbi-
trary, and her best friends here are not
wholly sure that she may not take it into
her head when she RECEIVERS from her illness
to write out statement, incorporate the
low letters, and give it to the press.