The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-31
rs ) TRUE 10 HIS WIFE.
Lieut. Hoashorington. Slayer .,
Robinson, Deaes Public Consure,
HE RETURNS TO AMERICA WITH
Tho W'omun Whose .Dishonor Ito
Avenged will, Dloodshcd.-ssory OF
tho Tragedy Said TO Have ilccn
Grossly Misrepresentation TO
Escape Public Notorlety.i

tho Tragedy Said 10 Have nccn
Grossly Misrepresentation to
Escape Public Notorlety.
CHICAGO, May 3O.-A tall, heavily
built man Of thirty.lvc. with a big
dropping mustachc and aquaro.cht
red board, walked into tho Office Of tho
Palmor house yesterday afternoon and
wrote: ~. II. licthcring,on. wiio
child, Delaware" on tho register. There
I were fow who recognized him as Lieu.
tenant llcthcring.on, Of the United
States navy, who shot and killed Cover
Robinson in Yokohama, japan, because
s.ot his alleged intimacy with Mrs,
Hethorington.
Hothcrington's blue Dyes wcro sharp
and frank and his ilorid complexion
showed tho effect OF tho hot sun. His
r.anner was bluff and stern. His
3 pretty vile, whose beauty wnl tho
cause OF the international sensation,
went at once 10 hcr room and did not
go ont during tho evening. Her youth.
full facc, with It's big appealing blue
eyes, surmounted by masses Of yellow
hair, looked palo and worm. Tho effects
OF the unpleasant publicity Of which
che has boon tho subject wcro clearly
evident. She wore a neatly fitting
tailor.made brown coat, with n white
collar showing about her. pretty throat.
The baby, q wlnsomc little lass ofeish-
teen months, was the apparent object
Of Its mothers entire devotion.
AVOIDED his OLD noME.
Lieutenant Ectherington's home is in
Dubuque, Iowa, whore his parents still
live, but the party did not stop there
on their way east. Arriving at San
Francisco on the steamer Oceanic, May
81, Lieutenant and Mrs. IIethnrington
stopped ofior three days to rest after
the voyage. They will be ut the Palmer
over Sunday, and will renew their
journey eastward tomorrow.
Whom seen last evening Lieutenant
Hetherington refused to speak Of the
causes leading to the killing OF Robin
son or the sensational developments
which have grown out Of the tragedy
shave been misrepresonted in the
newspapers" he said. "Thc stories
printed about mo and my wife and her
relations with Cover Robinson hive
been full OF f%alsehoods." Tho report
that he and his wife were practically
ostracised BY the other passengers on
the Oceanic during the voyage from
Japan lleatherington denounced rs
utterly untrue. .'lf there was any cold.
ness," he said, ~ failed to see ii. My
wife was i'll during the Grss few days OF
the trip and could not ON to the
table, but when SHE recovered our rela-
tions with the other passcngerc were
most pleasant"
When asked about the consure which
has been heaped upon him for taking
back his wife after staying her traducer,
Lieutenant Uetherington's face grew
dark and set. lie would say nothing
more than repeat the speech made by
his solicitor after the trial:
This mar has been ccnsurcd for TAX
ing his vito back again. ! say that was
honorable, and il he had not done so |
would have had nothing to do with the
case"
To-day Lieut.. TIetherington's old
father will come over from Dubuque 10
see his son. 1t twill DO the first meeting
since tho young naval officer sailed with
the Japan squadron before the first SITS
picion OF scandal had fallen upon him
or his beautiful young wife. Leaving
Chicago Monday the lieutenant and his
wife will go straightto Wilmington, Del,
where Mrs. Hetherington's parents live.
It would seem that the question OF
where thov shall take up their perna.
nent residence has no: yet been settled.
Before leaving San Francisco it had been
practically decided that Mrs. lIcther.
ington should 1.-Two with her husbands
parents in Dubuque. But that city was
passed without even n stop. It ia clear,
however, that the strong.willed, i'm
pu!sive naval officer has firmly made up
his mind that with the assistance OF his
wife, now bound to him by ties OF blood,
ho will live down tho uniriendly crit.
cism which has followed him from tho
antipodes.
CAUSE OF TIE TRAGEDY.
~ SII'ic. ~ suCIl " us, LOT WHICH
Lieut.. lIe%therinSton wa tried and nc.
Quilted by the admiralty court in 70.
kohoma, divided the Misunderstanding
world into two bitterly opposed lac
tons. Cover Robinson was n wealthy
merchant whose leisure was apparently
spent in paying attention to the wives
OF othermen. Flo tried ios some time
TO compromise Mrs. IIc.hcrington and
when IT reached the ears o. the licuten.
ant the utter lost no time in killing the
l%ady-killor. lIcthcrineton's fellow.na.
WI officers, almost to u man. declared
that no had simply done what vas his
duty a. Il gentleman and M officer to
preserve the hunoro OF his vile and baby.
Others wero found who sided with Rob.
inson, and ieapcl scorn upon the hus-
band for taking back to HIS bosom tho
woman to preserve whose honor he had
taken q human llfc. Tho court before
which he was tried acquitted him, and
both he and his wife have since been
busy in tho vain attempt TO escape
from the notoricty which follows them.
This Is Too Much.
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