The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-29
DIR. LEES CASE CONTINUED
TIE YOUNG W0MIN'S STATEMENT OF HER COIN FICTION WITH LEE.

Mrs. Palmer Hears tho Story From Her
 Daughters own Lips-Tho Heart-broken
 Woman Speaks of Her Many Kindnesses
 to Dr. Lee-yery Little Dependence Put
 in the Story of Marriage.
 The case of pr. J. Edward Lee, who was arraigned in the city court yes terday morning for the ruin of Bird M Palmer, was continued until october 10, Lee was remanded to the county jail under $500 bonds, in default ot which he was loced up.
 Attorney Prentice w. Chase appear ed for Lee in the city court yesterday The more the charges against the doc tor are investigated the more startling and nefarious become the depths Of in fanny into which he seems to have fall en. As stated in this paper yesterday morning, pr. ]. Edward Lee seems to have according to the statements Of Mrs. Palmer, the mother of the young woman who is critically ill at the hos
  received at the hands of Dr. Lee, and also the lifelong friend of the accused, a wife living in Canada with two of his children. It also appears that the doc tor has contributed but little since his residence was made in this city toward | their support.
 Miss Palmer, the young woman at the hospital, insists that she and pr. Lee went through the marriage cere- | mony at Pleasantville, N. r., in 1894 She told the trainmen who assisted her to New Haven after leaving the | Mansion house in Derby that Dr. Lee was her husband and that she had been married to him for three years
 It is said that when Lee found that the woman had escaped him he flew into a rage and went to the hotel and began abusing Landlord Hotchkiss. Miss Palmer recounted to her mother yesterday morning, as well as she was able, the route of the journey she had taken since she left home two weeks ago, presumably to go to Sheffield her escape from Lee, and how she gained admission to the hospital as the wife of Bartlett Lee.
 Mrs. Palmer, who is prostrated at the misfortune that has befallen her daughter, would not believe that the doctor and the young woman were married. She reiterated her state ments as to how she had known Lee since his hoyhood and how she had stood by him during his many esca- pades and trials
 When Lee became involved in the Schloss case, Mrs. Palmer for the sake of his mother, and believing him to be Einnocent and without friends, gave him room in her house and let him use the room for an office. This was when he lived on Elm street. She says she acted for him as she would for son, believing that if child of hers got into g strange land without friends, she would be glad to know that someone helped him.
 Subsequently he went out several times with her daughter, but she sus- pected nothing believing that it was simply a natural friendship, but as Lees habits grew worse and she be- came aware that he was drinking heavily, she told her daughter not to have anything to do with him. and she supposed that command had been | obeyed. t
 To find that the worst possible con- dition to the contrary exists was there fore a freightful shock. Yesterday she cried: "I treated him like son, and see what he has done in return"
 The prosecuting attorney has at pres. ent brought only one charge, that o1
 seduction. If bigamy can be proved l that charge will also be brought, bu
 it is doubtful if the second charge car
 be proven, as the authorities have nc
 faith in the validity of the marriage a semblance of marriage that tool
 place in October, 1894.