Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-08-10
.THE REV. DR. MABRY.
A Once FamOns Iowa Preacher
and ExhOrter
HAS TROUBLE At SALT LAKE.
He Tried to ElOpe With a Mrs.
Reilly OF That City.

! JlOu Win mttnOulSI mlulSteT WIG
was well known in Iowa and at one
time pastor of the largest churches
there and presiding elder of the upper
IDwa conference districts. He became
known there as a man very disagree
able and tryan nical toward his family.
He had lovely wife and children and
In one of the towns where he was
preat her destroyed the peace aud bar-
muny of family Of his church. But
| in Salt Lste be has broken his record
elsew here and has been in Jail on a
charge OF adultery, only escaping by
jumping bis bail and fleeing to Canada
May 3lst. The woman, q Mrs. Reilly,
who seems to bsve been of light and
trlfling character, had been stricken
with remorse at the last moment and
refused to fly with him, probably con-
cluding that he was only n poor
preacher and that he would abandon
her as soon as she ceased to exert any
charm over him. So she told her
husband all about Msbry's persistent
love. making from the first day she
joined his church. He had proceeded
with all the deliberatica and villiany
that his nature and bis profession had
enabled him to exercise upon a wilful,
weak and foolshly wicked woman,
probably the first one of that kind he
had come across within the fold of the
church after his arrival in Salt Lake.
For nearly two years he carried on
more or less disgraceful intimacy with
this Mrs. Reilly, while be kept up ap-
pearances of being clean aud upright
man before his family, lectured the
people of Salt Lake on "Merals" and
"Personal Purity" and all the time he
was debauching the wife of man
who was himself Methodist and the
son of a Methodist preacher. On May
9Th he was arrested and his wicked.
ness, that he had for all his past life
concealed under the garb Of holiness,
was brought to the light OF day. Mrs.
Reilly, it transpired, had soon after
joining his church told him that she
did not live very happily with her
husband, and that give him clue to
follow In working up his devilish in
fiuence over her. Bnt we must give
the woman credit for having the nerve
to fully expose the wolf in sleeps
clothing. She gave her husband all
his love-sick letters and her husband
dictated letter she wrote to him to
Canada declaring that she could not
follow him. He had taken an assumed
name and so had she. All the letters
and kilograms that passed after that
were taken in charge by Mr.. Reilly
and are now made public. Mabry had
also invented a special secret cypher
and letters were written in that, which
with the very learned "Dr." Marby's
key is also published in the Salt Lake
papers. June 18th Mrs. Reilly left
Salt Lake and went to Milford, Kansas,
to visit her mother and the"very Rsv."
followed her there. But she had the
courage to refuse to see him aud he
went to Kansas City, where on June
2sth he sent last long, lingering, fare
well epistle to his escaped birding who
WAS still under her mothers wing In
Kansas. He closes with admonitions
10 her to lead pure life, etc. The Salt
Lake Tribune sums Mabry up In a
sketch that does him justice. The
writer lived In the same town with
him for years, although not sitting
under his gospel ministrations any
oftener than was necessary to get q
clear impression Of his makeup a. a
man. His face was that of cold
llculating man, one who, with kind
of ferceress pursued bis religious
belief, and one who would have been
delighted to punish and crush anyone
who did not believe as he did. He wS'
Jealous Iu preaching about the need ol
social purity. He even advised the
female members Of bis church TO draw
around thsmselYss An sxclusivsnss'