The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-05
FOUND A CHAMPION.
Plenty of Money Available to
Defend Mrs. Boyd.
HER CHAPLAIN TO THE RESCUE.
Rev. William Cairns Converts Boyd's
Slayer and Spends His Means for
Her Defense.

Ursula Juanita Unfug has found friend
in need, who is prepared to help her. not
only with sympathy and spiritual coun-
sci, but with money TO employ lawyers for
her defense. This friend is Rev. William
Cairns, who was formerly q Baptist
preacher and still acts in that capacity oc-
casionaliy.
When the woman who claims the name
OF Thomas Henderson Boyd was taken
to the county Jail after Staying him,
her physician called Mr.. Cairns in to adj
minister to her spiritual wants, and he has
been frequent visitor to her ever since.
As he heard the story of her life from
her own lips he became convinced
that she was a deeply wronged woman,
and began to interest himself in her tenn
poral as well as her spiritual welfare. He
not merely supplied her with tracts and
religious books. but he began sending her
from o restaurant better food than is on
the Jail bill OF fare, and on Sundays treats
her TO turkey dinner. Not only this, but
be furnished funds to her attorneys to pro-
vide for her defense, and is frequently in
consultation with them. Altogether he 10
said to have already spent over 81, 600 in
providing for her defense and for her COM
fort He visits her three times a week
and would go oftener if Jaiier Munros
would allow him.
When a PosT- FNrELIIGEScER reporter
called to see Mrs. Boyd yesterday, he found
her engaged in conversation with Mr.
Cairns seated in the large room of the wom-
ems department of the Jail. Beside them
was small stand covered with sewing ma
terials and books and magazines. Many
of the books were of decidedly religious
tone. indicating the course of the pris-
oner's reading. She sat in q low chair,
looking pale from her long confinement,
this paior heightened by contrast with
her lustrous brown eyes, her black
hair and her clothes of the
same sombre hue. As Mr.. Cairns sat
beside her, he presented striking con-
trast, for he is tall and spare. with a high,
narrow forhead and hair thinned by the
fight of some fifty years. while his eyes
seem strangers to any tire except that Of
religious fervor. Yet as they talked the
woman with the eyes capable of express
ing deep passion was subdued in her man.
ner, while the man fired up as he related
what he considered her wrongs.
Mr.. Cairns told how he had been called
in to minister to the woman's troubled
spirit and had continued his ministrations.
He admitted that he had been assisting
in her defense. but would not say whether
he had succeeded in converting her to .
belief in the Christian religion. turning to
her for an answer. She simply said:
''If were to say had been converted
il would be discredited, so will not say
anything"
Then Mr. Cairns gave vent to a fierce
denunciation of those who. as he expressed
it, had tried, convicted and hanged the
woman before she had ever been brought
before jury by telling the history of her
former life. He claimed that she had been
leading pure life for the last two years,
and she omplained that the stories of her
life during that period were false. Then
Mr.. Cairns exclaimed:
Though she was prostitute before
that time, is female prostitute any worse
than male? 1 can find 500 men in this
city who are cousorting with other women
than their wives. Yet nobody says word
against them"
Mrs. Boyd was then asked what were
her plans tor the future in case she was
acquitted of murder, but she declined to
talk of them. These plans are said to be,
however, to go as missionary among her
frail sisters and persuade them to become
converted.
The man who has constituted himself
her champion is not without means Of
fighting her battles for her, for he has
some valuable property near Green lake.
He has been resident of Seattle and VII
cinity for seventeen years, and acquired
this property soon after he came here, hen
few people expected that it would ever DO
valuable tor anything but farming. He
was one Of the leaders in the missionary
movement in the Baptist church which
caused the building and sending out Of tho
steamer Evangel as a mission boat on the
Sound. The boat was manned with good
Baptists with the single exception of the
pilot, whom IL was necessary to accept
without too close scrutiny of his creed or
manner of life. He had as good command
of expietives as the average steamboat
man. and was not averse to using them.
Mr. Cairns was mate on the little boat,
and on the first trip it was his duty to cast
the lines to the " hart. He twisted the bow
line around the bits in the wrong direc-
ton, so that when the line pulled it taut
in backing out to bring up the stern the
line unwound instead of tightening, and
the boat went away out. That made the
pilot mad, and he denounced his mate ~
a land lubber, applied many wicked adj
jectives TO him and ordered MIN ashore.
Mr.. Cairns gave up a nautical life.
Not long after that Mr.. Cairns went
away to Eastern Washington and re-
manned away from Seattle for over three
years. during which the value Of HRS Green
lake ranch grew rapidly, along with
other property around the city. On his
return smart real estate man, who il
also leading light in one of the churches,
greeted him very heartily. and. saying
that he thought of planting an
orchard in the neighborhood Of
Green lake, asked what he thought
his property was worth. Mr.. Cairns,
not being posted on real estate values,
named q ridiculously low figure, but his
brother, not wishing to impose on him,
offered about ten times az much. Mr..
Cairns said he would give an answer the
next day and. on inquiry among his
friends, found that his land was worth
seven or eight times as much as be had
been offered. The sale of a part o. the
ranch put him in easy circumstances, and
he is now spending part of the proceeds in
the defense of Ursula Juanita Unfug.
His Weight Saved HE Life.