Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-01

took an apartment near the college buildings,
our intimacy continued and we still saw each
other nearly every dav.
Mrs. Potts has testified to nv telling her in
November that loved her daughter, and how
she counseled me against any announced engage
ment but still permitted me to continue my
visits as before
HELEN AND MARRIED EACH OTHER"
Our secret marriage on February s. 1890. is q
matter Of record, but in the criticism of that
marriage one fact has been lost sight Of and
that is that not alone did marry Helen, but
that Helen and married each other and hence
the miserable criticisms upon the motive Of our
marriage are not only criticisms Of me but are
insults to her memory
In the summer Of 1891, with the expectation
of earning the expenses OF my college course
and lessening my debt to nv generous grand
father, L opened a small restaurant in Asbury
Park and subrented rooms above it to the Nep-
tune Club. Incorporated under the laws Of New
Jersey that year
Counsel informed me that the club was legally
Incorporated and that they were privileged un-
der the law to have served to them IN their
rooms such wines. &c, usually served
to members of clubs everywhere. They en-
ployed their own steward: they paid their rent
were never disorderly and so 1 did not inter-
fere, but the authorities of Asbury Park did
interfere and arrested the resDonsible
lessee on the charge of liquor selling which they
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me INV life.
OF Helen's tragic death on the morning of
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how beside he coesr, NJ 49, -. o. y. y.
mother SAYING nd -, so,, e., h". -, a.,
sbsdou Of 5ns,h VS. 60 49,. h 70 n1 ,a ,ain
and exerv uord which 7 sod or .,;5 o. We. 80
Dosed 10 b,va s.id or L. bas 49,, ton,nrlI
with the assistance of renegade journalist.
mo PROOF una. am guilty OF crime Tor winch
who loved me- and Of vphon, ,.aa so rar, XII s.
into CUSTODY. and after waiting for a wear.
locked in a cell mid yermin damn and misery
such as YOU cannot imagine nor | describe
after a Years cIamorinT for trial Watching
from month to month INV mothers hair turn
gray and her little patrimony fade away before
the inroads of rapacious LAWYERS, | was placed
on trial for INV life
For two long weeks I sat each day in
court listening to the testimony of witnesses
many of whom had seen but once in NV life
and vet who solemnIv swore that |, a bow OF
twentv-one. had confessed to them of crime,
without number. of crimes unspeakable in their
horror. and the defense Was hand,canped
could not prove | did not make these marvel
Gus confessions. did not know tina, nv moor
wife had been addicted for wears to the druo
which caused her death.
told INV LAWYERS that WAS innocent. that 7
had given her no poison. and 40 they said she
could not have died of poison at ali.
The autopsy was performed two months after
her death EXPERTS informed ms that she MIGHT
readily have died of any of several diseases.
An EXPERT for the prosecution after an analysis
testified that he found but an unweiehable
trace. less than one one-bundretb of . Grain Of
morphine.
&c, vs. oo>,,-,., -
led iNNo'hNi' of "ohoAh.
was depending 70 prove my innocence oy
showing how loved my wife. by proving that