The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-20
He Refuses to Marry the Girl
He Has Betrayed.
HIS CONFESSION OF CRIME.
Sss =. fosnG. Jx.. ~ Last Gets late
Jaii-A Letter IN which He Adriss
Bssg . Habisusi Thief


OF sedicticn. On advice of his attorney
he permitted charge Of seduction 10 be
preferred against him and be Is now IN
jail. while bis victim, Who is 10 ender lit
tie think with pretty features. hazel eyes
and tine black hair. 10 detained as . Wit
ness in charge Of the police matron, Mrs.
Taylor.
The case was brought before Judge Gias-
gov yesterday in the municipal court by
1eorre fyner. the girls uncle, who de-
aired that she b committed 70 the reform
school Both Tynsr and his wife testified
that Young began keeping company with
the esri over three months ago, and when
they ceased to permit him TO cali or see
their foster daughter the girl became un-
manageable and would leave her home for
Two or three days 1t . time. meeting her
lover and spending the nights with neigh
bors. Last Saturday she left home. met
Young. went TO the theaser. and later
took lodgings at the Ripley house. in
room so, registering as man and
wife. Monday the girls uncle located
them and they were arrested by Detective
Roberts and both spent the night at po-
lice headquarters. The girl declared her
uncle and aunt were ''scoids." and said
she would not return to their home.
Young was placed on the stand and
swore that his true name was MAT King"
that he was 10 years old and that he WAS
agent for rubber company in this city.
He told the Judge that Eidenia was a good
girl before he met her and that he had
promised over month ago to marry her.
''Don't you know that unless you keep
your word to this girl you are liable to De
sent to the peni.entiary?" asked Judge
Glasgow.
II intend to marry her." was all the
young man said.
.'When7o
Whenever she Is willing"
Detective Roberts whispered something
in the judges ear and then the clerk
handed a letter to the judge. who. after
examining the document. handed it to the
witness and asked him If he wanted to Say
anything about IL.
mo. DON'T" he answered. his face
growing red, and for the first time he APP
peared embarrassed. He tucked the letter
out of sight in the inner rscesses of his
inside coat pocket.
The g,rl was called and amid sobs told
her story. She called her lover "Mr.
King and said they were to be married
next Monday. She said she was willing
to marry him any time.
IF To charge Is preferred against you
will you marry this little girl tonight 2"
asked Judge Glasgow Of Young.
Young answered readily that he would.
At this juncture W. w. Stewart APP
peared and said that he had been re-
tanned to represent Young and he wanted
the court to set aside all the testimony
that his client had given. Acting under
instructions from his attorney, Young
told the judge his name was not King,
bat Young, and said that he would not
marry the girl until he had seen his
parents; then. maybe, he would marry
hcr--"when he became Of age"
Immediately George Tyner swore out .
warrant for Young's arrest. charging him
with seduction, and he was placed in jail
pending his hearing today.
When Young was taken to police head
quarters the letter which was produced in
court but was suppressed was found in his
pocket. and it proved to be very interest
ing. IL Was evidently written month or
more ago and read as follows, the writing
being iliegible at the passages marked by
asterisks:
A CONFESSION
ITO all whom ! have deceived, as well
as TO those few long friends that I may
possess:
II was born in Fort Wayne. Ind, No
vember 3. 1878. Az the age OF Is years
emigrated to Seattle. and
| il was here my history commenced Be
fore this l had always been more or less
ineorrigible, but not criminaily bad. Ny
! first offense was to take
dollar gold piece out of my mothers
| pocketbook. used the money to take a
| young lady to a bali. After this it was
| much easier TO steal; had already broken
| the ice, yet my conscience would check
rue sometimes. The iarges. amount I
| ever stole was Sis from an old man; 500
| of il was returned on condition he would
| not appear against me. have never
| been convicted OF crime in my life,
| but l do not owe this to any
| degree OF cleyerness on my part, but 10
| nay dear old father and mother, who have
| stood BY rae, always ready TO forgive
| remember once | took $50
| from poor old German woman IN Ia
| coma | was never arrested for this
| otfense. but only because my mother had
| LETT her gold watch which q
very hne Silver with Mr.. Fife.
| the proprietor Of the hotel where the lady
was stopping, he having paid the woma u
| every cent she had lost l have gone
| under many aliases, such as Nat kiag,
| 6ilhraith Young Charley Young,
| Charles Montgomery and my true name.
| Nat b. Young. As Nat King | will re
/ recognized a reporter for the Telegraph,
| a capacity In which never served, but used
| a. screen TO hide my true reputation.
| Wodld il not have been better, some will
/ say, to have used your true name and
/ tried 10 outliye your past9 / say As Mary
| Southxo worth said: Put yourself in my
/ place, place the blazing ire of mtsdeeds
! before you; try to wade through them.
/ All In vain ven try TO reaen the
| acme of bliss. Seei They are laughing at
| your vain efforts; no enc viii help you
| Alas you give up In despair.
I'm justice TO myself let me say have
| been strictly honest since last January.
| but now my old desire 10 steal has come
/ unon me. and 10 is TO escape 10 that have
| committed suicide. But this IL not the
/ onIy reason, IS my little pain ia death can
/ testify. Ii is as much for her as il II 10
escape the possibility Of my dying on thu
| stage before q large audience that have
/ taken my own gife. During ilte / have
ruined good many girls. but never in my
life did meet such q conbdlng, innocent
| little creature. She has certainly brought
| me 10 sense of ny moral degradation.
/ IL Is then with our mutual scquisenee We
| have decided TO take our lives 10 escape
| forever this cold unsympathixlng world
| Very respectfully, NAT b. YorSs."
On the back of the letter was written
"For the Posr-tSrrLIGGxScxa" The girl
referred 10 must have been another limo
/ cent little thing" because Eldenia Tyner
AYERS that she never talked OF suicide with
| her lover: il Vas al love aud future happi-
ness and nothing whatever about death.
She thinks now that he must have written
I the letter whise in love With acme ether