The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-11
MS GOOD CHARACTER
par C. E. Fulmer, of Kent,
Cleared of the Charges
..oe AGAINST HIS MORALITY
stories Told by the Girls, VINO
CANNED He Had Taken Liberties
xy,th Them. Not Believed.

,.ro;..se. appointed 20 investigate
TIE 80 a. immoral conduct against
ts : Falmer. OF Kent found aim
asv and held that absolutely no
- xYas nroduced sustaining the
- ! single ballot was taken al II %
fas5s Tbarsaay night, and the f.nd5ns
es''..vinsotls IN Or. Fulmers favor. al
Va - was held censuTabie for impFu-
ss0-sss...s,te. IN allowing women 10 come
- 80 soase sor private conferences
= o..,ufttee convened last Wsdnes-
y o'cloek ir Kent. Presiding Elder
a. FORD acting as Chairman. Those
]. ~ tna committee were: Rev. W.
sssAr-snatoy,. OF Trinity church. Rev.
"a ghankllu. o. the First Methodist
-. Rev. ". T. Ferd. o. Grace
So .es. R.y. o. E. Olander and Rev. VI.
cay,ngton, OF the Madison street
- ali Of Seattle: Rev q. l. Cuoay,
sssro. and RSv. Isaac Dillon, OF FAIR
-, The counsel for the prosecution
s psv. 4. Atwood, OF Seattle. and for
- defense Rev. q. A. Landon, OF sum
The Charges.
-. charges were signed oy II. n. JOY.
,-s.1orsiance with the ecclesiastical law
s-..srsng that the prosecuting witness
- h. = member OF the church. The en-
= committee insisted that the investiga-
- should be held openly. aid almost the
shols Town ayalied itself OF the oppoftu-
~ 70 gifness the trial
81 sf9rtas told 81 a. Risedorph. Maggie
!. 80 Myrtle Joy and ysrgie Smith. who
- witnesses for the prosecution. were
....siealiy the same as those published In
= posf-Intelflgence of January ? Mag
s~rve-ek acknowledged having been an
s,,sTs az the White Shield refuge OF Ta-
- A home for fallen women, and on
denomination the fact vas brought
4, nat instead of leaving DR.. Fulmer )
80 ana refusing TO return. she had re-
.svas 4 telegram from him forbidding her
pAs 50. .. =,
a. church year ago that DR.. F1ilmer had
sl,ssd her, and then made a written re-
s-ss,lsn said that she had been forced by
ra,uer and others TO write the retraetion.
"a Insisted that her original statement Was
esrrse..
~ Fulmer, in testifying for his defense.
~.ss short and clear statement Of facts.
~ denied that he had ever kissed the
ing women or put his hand inside their
ar,.ses. The stories told by the young
vsussn in regard 10 his asking them 10
sraetice deep breathing before him with
ssr waists OF. he stigrnatized as utterly
tlss and letters were produced tending IN
ssgs that the character of Maggie Morck
SIS rot above repr0ach.
Bertha Ross, little girl Is years OF age.
tAFsg a bombsheIl into the camp OF the
PREACHERS detractoTs by stating that she
hsa overheard conversation one after
noon a. she was going home from school
ts,xsen Maggie Morek and Myrtle JOY,
xts we're standing in front OF Mrs. Louise
s.AAzsgs HOUSE,. Myrtle Joy said 10 Mag
re Merck: Well We know our story Is a
h. i've viii stick to 1t and drive Fulmer
sai 81 town.
he little girl said she went home and
ad Der grandmother all about IL and the
a laly considered II of sufficient import
ase to be made public. With the simple
-ectness OF child. Bertha Ross stuck TO
Il story. and VAS not shaken on cross
asmiaation The committee considered
= child's evidence as proving collision
mshe part Of the prosecutors. Other Wit
,sssss FOR the defense testified to DR.. Full
rsgs good character, and his standing
rsA the better class in the community was
,ssxn tn ne very high