The morning call., 1893-09-04
Another Kookogey Said to
Exist.
MRS. PARKER RECALLS HIM.
He Was Well Known in Philadelphia
Several Years Ago-New Fea-
lures in the Case.

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r. W. Parker, left to do battle with An
unfeeing world. seeks to smooth out the
wrinkles that from time to time crop out
in the past career of her husband
sIrikingly illustrates the strange, mex
plicabe fidelity of which only a woman
seems capable.
The world may say what it pleaseS OF
her dead, the tongue of sauder or the
truthful Developments of history NAV
assail the character and motives of the
man who feared death less than the con-
sequences OF living, yet this delicate,
almost friendless woman, whose future
Itself must cause her dire approximations.
calmly brushes away all discreditable
rumors and still asserts her belief. faith
and certainty that the suicide was an in
lured and prosecuted man.
IT'S pack of lies" were the words
with which Mrs. Parker referred to an
article printed in the New York Sunday
Mercury and telegraphed TO this CITY
yesterday In which the purported past
career If her husband was reviewed AT
lengta.
The preliminary portion of the article
in question contained the following state
ment:
All downtown knew hOokogey a couple OF
years agu. lie had sons brilliant qualities as
an adyenlurer aud.SWtudler, aud 10 was ony on
the Gth OF January last mat the General SEES
sious Grand jury found an indictment against
lam ~ connection win a $4,000 swindle per
netIaIed on Colonel T. W. Leonard son Of the
late Judge Leonard Of the United states Cir
cult Court, with an Office al 50 Broadw and
residence al lie Murray Hill HOlel. A bench
warrant was issued aud l. now in The hands OF
Detective Sergeant Sheldon OF police head
QUARTERS.
The article then goes on to state the
I
have been swindled. A company was
formed 10 sell an electric lamp which
KookeGey was said to have invented, but
which proved TO be losing venture.
Colonel Leonard was president Of the
company and Arthur 4. 1ooker secretary.
Mrs. Parker says her husband was the
electrical engineer. The article then goes
on to detail the manner in which Leonard
was tieeced of his money, koOkogey com
ing IN for the greater part OF the odlum
connected with the affair.
Mrs. Parker's statement differs from the
foregoing in a material manner. She saws
that TO0ker, who did not know Leonard,
requested him PARKER 10 give him an in
PRODUCTION, T0ObeT was at The time Par
ker'S partner In business, and Mrs. Parker
says her husband was strongly attached 10
the man. Iu0ker himself introduced the
lamp project to Leonard, and when the
subsequent trouble occurred, Mrs. Parker
says, Leonard did not blame her husband
any further han for being the medium
through which he met TOoker
One surmSeS while in conversation
with Mrs. Parker that this man T0oker
must have had great influence upon her
hus stands life. She Is continually letting
drop destinations TO the effect that Parker
sacrificed himself to shield others and
these shaduwv utteranees are usually
coupled with the name of Tooker.
Leonard, she says, is not good man.
In ~. No s. &
been Tor the Influence and wealth of Leon
ards father the son would have landed in
prison years ago. nave notices cut from
the papers now in my trunk in Chicago
which show what kind Of a man this
Leonard is, and as for the transaction
spoken of he investigated the matter him
self and went into it with his eyes open.
After TOoker had misled my hus band in
this and other matters the two would have
become TecGnciled and continued their
business relations if it had not been for
me. That will show you how easy my
husband was imposed upon. 1t was his
disposition TO believe In others implicitly,
even after he had been deceived by them,
that continually got him to do So"
The article quoted from bristes with
accusations of crooked work on the part O {
k00kogey, all of which the widow We
hemently denies. II closes with the fol-
having statement al 10 his career as a the
atrical agent:
Utterly cleaned out in the electric business
Kook ogey made use Of his large acquaintance
among actresses TO omen an Office as a theaII-
cal agent on TWenty-eighth street. He pro.
ceeded 10 organize companies TO take the road
and did send Out some companies, which were
soon STRANDED. lie had also formed the ac-
quaintance OF society lady who had the the
airical fever badly. hoOkogey agreed TO star
her, and Is supposed 10 have got quite sum OF
money from Der to make preparations and or.
ganiZe comDany. Tie theatrical field Is wthal
cifcumSeribed. and the character OF a 'iman-
ages" is soon found out
'My husband was never a theatrical
agent" Indignantly exclaimed the little
woman when The foregoing paragraph was
read to her. she did take several
companies out on the road, but when
there was loss he suffered more than any
uf the actors or actresses. l have oftea
known him to aid those of the profession
in distress, and 1t would be Christian
like act, now that he is dead and gone and
all the world seems arrayed in an effort to
besmlrcn his name with calumuy. if some
OF those persons whom he assisted when
he was alive, and who knew his many good
traits of character, would come forward
and say so. But | suppose they are afraid
Of the newspapers" sighed the little
woman, as the tears welIed up in her eyes
and she YEARLY leaned back in her chair.
Is there another 'KoOkogey?" Late
Developments certainly sustain the conclu-
sion that there is. A telegram was re-
Gently received in this city from the East,
in which the true "Count Kookogey," it
was said, was still alive and in the flesh.
Mrs. Parker, the widow of the suicide
here, strongly supports this report. She
says that about year ago the mysterious
Count was one of the parties in a case of
bigaDy, and that her attention was called
to the fact at the time. She was then Wis
ting friend in the East, and the similar
ity of the name with that of her husba I'd
caused her friend to speak to her about it.
and that the matter was laughlngly passed
over. But this is not all.
Charles w. Stansbury, a gentleman who
is engaged in the tea business in Phladel.
phta. and is in the city, said yesterday
that he recalled Count KookOgey very
well.
Some years ago." said he, 'the Count
,"as pretty well-known figure about
l'1ladelphia. He freqCented Green's
Hotel. a popular downtown resort, and
as man who would be likely to attract
tendon, especially among the women
- had dark hair and eyes, and was of
very agreeable address, but if he had any
troubles in the city | never heard of them.
Down at Atlantic City, however, it
was said he once had some trouble with
the husband of one of the ladies stopping
at a leading hotel bnk the ma rticuls "a n +