The morning call., 1894-11-15
BRIDE OF HIS AGE.
General CIay's Family
Troubles.
DOWN ON HIS RELATIONS
Who Have Sou ght to Stop His
Marriage.
THEY ARE ALL CONSPlRATORS.
And He Would Pretty Nearly as
Soon Shoot Them as Look
at Them.
THEY ARE ALL CONSPlRATORS

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view to-day with General Cassius NJ. Clay,
who married little Dora Richardson, he
told the following sen sational story of his
domestic ups and downs:
Ever since L obtained divorce from
my wife, who. together with her relatives,
was preiudiced against me because of my
anti-slavery work, there has been steady
and determined effort TO prevent me mar
rylng again. When | brought home from
Russia with me the child who is known as
Lonn.e Clay L did not DO like others have
done. disown my own flesh and blood.
but L had that child adopted, and made
him tine equal Of my other children as
heir to This vast estate. You will under
stand that my father. Green Clay, who
was a gallant soldier in the war of 1872,
left this vast estate to me during my
lifetime, but eItailed it TO my ch ildrsn.
| could have held my life interest in the
estate until the time OF my death. but /
loved my children and divided the land
equally between them. retaining only this
house, which | built with my own money
at cost OF nearly 500, 600, and three pieces
of land. In order 10 have an annuity suf-
ficient for my wants | charged the chill
dren rental Of 81 per acre per year They
lease it out al from SIS to $i2 per acre. so
you see / am giving them the benefit Of
the land, when it really belonged to me
until death. This much by way Of expla-
nation.
when Lonnie was brought here they
began a systematic course of poisoning by
giving him some sort of drug which pro-
duced absolute tOrpor That is the reason
that he is no larger than you see him
now. He is % years OF age, and yet he
does not appear 10 be more than boy.
They retarded his growth aud tried to kill
him in this secret way, aud failing in this,
one Of their hired tools made that boy.
when mere lad, jump from the second
story window OF this house. but by the
greatest miracle of his lie he was saved.
| killed the man who tried to destroy the
boy. | shot him twice with my pistol.
either one OF the shots being sufficient to
kill him. The facts were so much in my
favor that the co urts failed TO indicl me.
Several times when have been on this
point of marrying again they have put OF
structions in my way and prevented me
choosing a wife. This recent trouble
dates back three months. Up TO that tims
had III my employ S. c. Moore and WIFE,
w ~ nrIC my DNCfSccI Guu uUusGkeep6T
respectively. They grew so arrogant that
they seemed TO think that they owned the
entire place and that | was their servant.
OF course i could not sland that. They
also circulated stories about ME ID the
effect that | vas debauching Mary Lee
Bowling. a young woman who assisted In
the housework, aud Dora, my present wife.
There never was baseT lie concocled
under heaven. AS God is my Judge, |
never had any carnal thought in connec.
ti0n with that child, Dora.
well. they succeeded in inducing Mary
to leave, and they married her to some
young fellow. Had they not lied to her
and about her she would have been living
here happily yet. They then tried to
poison the mind of Dora against me, but
in that they signally failed. Realizing
what they were trying to do TO ME. drove
them off my place. But they were nat to
I've so easily disposed of. They recruited
band Of thirty men among their friends
and they came here to mob me, hut when
they found that | was on guard, prepared
10 shoot 10 kill, they very sensibly left and
have never been back on a similar mission.
| had my cannon loaded. and had they at
tackled the house there would certainly
have been several funerals among them.
The building, as you see, is more like a
fortress than house.
Failing to dislodge me by physical
force they informed several of my chill
dren that 1 was going to marry little Dora.
This made them furious. and they have
placed every obstacle in the way possible
to prevent it. They persuaded Judge J ohm
Chenauit not to marry me after l had
procured a license last Friday. ! then
asked Squire Green B. Million to marry
us. and he promised to do so, but they 60 t
wind OF that and persuaded Million not to
have anything TO do with me. Monday l
suspected that they would issue. or cause
to be issued. an Injunction restraining me
from marrying the girl. They thought
they had me here like rat in a cage and
that / was unable TO help myself from
their machinations. Accordingly deter
mined TO thwart their designs. and after
it had become dark last night / armed
McClelland Richardson, brother of Dora
and Barlow Clark. one of my farmh ands,
ana sent them eight miles across the
country after Squire Isaac Newton Doug
lass. The squire, who is a good Christian
and kind-hearted gentleman, and who
SympatnlZeS with me In my trouble, got
up in the night and rode on hors back
that he might be here in time.
"The ceremony was accordingly per-
formed Yesterday before 10 O'Clock in the
morning. Just as the final words were
said that made us man and wife, nv
grandson. Green Herrick. son OF my
daughter. Mary b. Clay, who was di-
yorced from her husband and who took
the name OF Clay, and also calls her son
Green Clay, arrived at my door. l sus-
pected that he had come for the purpose
OF interfering with my marriage by some
order of the court, and / promptly told
him to leave the place and never como on
it again until ! invited him. 1 told him
that / would shoot him il ne came back
before invited him. He left
Now you see the way 1 have been
treated by those who ought to love me and
desire my happiness. They have treated
ME in such manner that they have actu-
ally made wild beast of me. and l would
just as soon shoot down one of the con-
sprators as to fire on my most deadly
enemy, for they are my enemies. But as
long as have my health aud strength |
will defy them to the bitter end"
Whitehall, the castle of General Cassius
| Nj. Clay, is closed to all visitors tn-day