New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-03
A PRECIOUS PAIR OF ROGUES.
THE CAREER OF NED" HOWE. HAIR
WARD. "a. AND HIS BEGUILING WIFE.
MORE ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN
swINDLING HARVARD MEN IN THIS CITY
HOW THEY HAVE UNw11TINGLY PAID
THE BILLS FOR HER HUSBANDS

DEFENCE IN COURT.
The humorous phases OF the story Of the woman
who has been swinding Harvard graduates In this
and other cities are beginning to come TO light.
From the latest developments IT appears that the
money which the adventures secured from hhd
and generous Harvard men here last week has
been applied 10 help defend her husband In court
on the charges OF other Harvard victims IN chi
cago The grotesqueness Of this condition OF ar
fairs has tickled the sense Of humor OF the Har-
ward men here and they laughing about 1t
Yesterday even though they did remember their
loans" with a pang.
The investigations continued by Tribune re-
porter brought other things 10 light yesterday
among which was the fact that this woman and
her husband are an old-time pair OF rogues. and
have been working" Harvard men and Grand
Army posts for the last ten years. The name OF
the man is Edward Robbins Howe Harvard a.
and by his classmates nearly every one OF "hofh
has suffered by him. he has been Familiarity known
as Ned" Howe. There were two men by the
name Of Howe In the class Of Ca but Ned Is the
ono who has gained notoriety and who is now
langushing in the Cook County Jail In Chicago.
Ned according TO the account In the "a CLASSROOM
written by himself. was born In ls4S. being the
son Of Uriah Tracy and Sarah Tempeman (Cooi-
idge) Howe. After being graduated from Harvard
he studied in Germany and France, and then re-
turning TO this country in 1868 held places OF trust
in Western mines, and IN a San Francisco DUST
ness Office He was one OF the founders Of the
Harvard Club OF San Francsco. Later ne was
mining engineer in Colorado and Arizona. and IN
1884 was appointed by the Governor one OF the com
missioners from Southern California 10 the eHhi-
bition at New-Orleans. ~, . 40
woman whom the police OF this city are now after:
and married her. HIS "mlsfortunes' have dated
since that time. The woman has reputation d.,
her own Her real was Martha T. st.es, anu
she was horn I'm New-Engiand In lS4s. After the
war was over she began her SWINGING career. pc
ginning with Grand Army posts. she toid TO
mantle and thrilling story. She SAID that she en-
rolled in the 9th Massachusetts volunteers as o,
driImm,r boy and served until the battle OF LOOK
out Mountain There at her post OF duty sne was
wounded and her sex was discovered 49,,
This was pretty story, and Martha made nun
dreds Of dollars on g. Finally some one took me
,roIhle 20 ind out that her story was fairy ta.e
rom atari 10 finish Then Martha, who called her,
fef Kate Clayton. vanished. She married Ned
went on starring" tour and "Torked Cram
AMY posis throughout the West with brilliant sue
cess In 1885 they went the stage ana AZ boston
eppeared in Nine Modjeskas company. But ihey
snon tired Of this and then started In 20 swinIIe
Harvard men. med" Howe. who was already m
drb,ed 20 almost every one OF his classmnt ss m
clndjng ex-Secretary and ex-Minster Robert T. lAn-
coIn proved q shining success with mis- VIE. hut
on December las; he arrested by inc pre-ln"ht
~ tho Harvard Club in Chicago. and locked In the
cen where he stu is. His trial has been postponed
from time 10 time. because as Ned says. ne
hasn't been able 10 get counsel the real reason
Is that he has had money. But only Few Gays
q, .o re,aIning Zee was received At Chicago from
this city and the only possible explanation ls that
r. came from the pockets Of the Harvard men N
his CITY passing through the hands OF the WHY ana