The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-07
ADMITS HIS CRIME.
Rovnton's Answer to His Sister
in-Law's Charges.
..epoNED BY PRESIDENT HAYES.
- Lfttis Daughter Allowed to Have .
private Interview With Her Aunt
Other Court News.

Little Josephine Anna Boynton was in
1sdrs Langley's court again yesterday.
/ eeeonpanisd by her father, stepmother
send stepsister. In another part Of the
! ,oor sat the child's maternal aunt, Miss
c.therine Paulint. of Lowell, Mass, ac-
ssnpanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
{ smith.
Boynton made his return to the writ OF
Aabess corpus. in which ne admits that
8 October Is. 1879. he was convicted OF
1mbezzlement in Massachusetts and SEN
traced to the penitentiary, and that after
mrving fourteen months of his term ne
vss pard oned by President Rutherford b.
Nayes. He says that the petition for his
.erdou vas signed by the president and
N the directors of the bank from which
h embezzled and also by the sureties on
h;s bond who had suffered by his crime.
He does not wish to excuse or palliate his
crime, but says that it was committed
through weakness and inability to resist
tmptation. He denies that since his re-
lease he has led a dissipated, hcsntious or
Immoral lite, but asserts that he has been
eudsavorlng to live down his crime and
unfortunate past and to become an honest
and honorable man. He came to Seattle
in 1859. and he says he has since that time
been almost constantly employed in posi-
lions of trust by the Bennett q Hull Fur
piture Company, the Pacific Carpet Com
psny, the Oregon Improvement Company
and the Black Diamond Coal Company.
being now in the employ Of the last-named
company, and he says that during the
whole time he has led an honest, upright
and temperate life. He denies that no
ever reiHquished the custody of his child
70 her mother or her aunt, and
Dsys that after the death of the
ehd's mother he lived single un-
iii December IL, 1892. when he
married his present wife. Mrs. Emma r.
Wade, in Lowell, Mass. During the period
be was single the child lived with her
grandmother, Mrs. Rose Pauiint, in
Lowell, Mass. and he has contributed.to
her support and maintenance. He says
that his present wife is . woman of mature
age, being AZ years old, 10 Of the best char
acter and is in every way q mother to the
child. He says that the child is attached
10 her and to her daughter, IL years of age.
and that they are attached to the little
girl, who is entirely happy and IL being
properly trained and educated and is sur
rounded by every material comfort. He
also denies that during his residence in
Seattle or elsewhere he has been dis
charged from responsible positions on
account of dishonesty or dissipated habits.
There not being time to hear the merit
Of the case yesterday 1t was continued to
Nay a, the child in the meantime being
left with her father. Attorney Fish back
sought to have the judge allow the child
10 visit whole day uninterrupted with
Der aunt at Mr.. Smiths residence, but
alter Judge Langley had taken the child
into his chamber for few minutes con-
ierence he said that he would allow a
snort interview between the child and her
aunt in his chamber. but he considered
that the visit was unnecessary. In resist.
ng the motion Attorney l.. c. Gilman
said that the father was apprehensive lest
the child should be kidnapped, as persons
imposed to be detectives had tried to lure
the child away from his home to visit her
aunt. Miss Pauiint accordingly went into
the judges chamber and remained with
the child about ten minutes, both she and
The child emerging from the interview
with beaming faces. To judge from ap-
pearanees little Josephine 10 embarrassed
BY the elusive affection showered upon her
by both sides of the case.