The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-08
'BOI7O's DEVOTED PARENT
Efforts to Keep a Wayward Boy
Out Of Prison.
A WILD YOUTHS ESCAPADE
His Father and Elderly Wife De-
cline to Take Part In the Pre-
ceeds. hut His Mother ShriDks
From Nothing in Her Efforts to
Have Him Released.

New York, Sept. S.-If young Will
lam Botto, whose marriage to the
elderly and wealthy Kentucky widow
aud W whosemanyescapade etions,
to speak mildly, since that event, have be
come SO notorious, escapes the penalty
of the law IL Will be because OF the abso-
lutte and unwearyng devotion OF his
mother. He is now in the ombs on very
serious charges, and proceedings have been
entered against him that may result in
lat ding him In the penitentiary. Hiscase is
to he argued In court today.
Neither his father nor the elderly lady
who became his second wife intends to
take any part In the proceedings, nor will
either of them come fr ON Louisville.
Mrs. Rotto, the young mans mother, is
a handoS;ne woman, and evidently per
son of great culture and refinement. She
does not shrink fr ON any experience. Mt
matter how unpleasant, If 1t will serve the
interests of her iGoliZed son. She stood
yesterday afternoon outside the bars of the
Tombs corridor, talking earnestly to her
son. Her expensive attire and diamonds
roundinrs, but she was so intent upon tell
ing her hoy the latest developments In his
Ease that she seemed entirely obliyious
of the attention they attracted.
His lawyers. referring to the case yes
terday, said:
.It is a most unfortunate affair. This
young man Ielongs TO most honorable.
respectable and wealthy family of Louis
vile He has enormous wealth IN his own
right. The newspapers talk about his pres
ent wife Icing worth million, and as
ore you his wealth will match hers. To
be sure, he has not yet come into posses
sion OF it. The funds have been held In
trust fGr him, but he is very soon TO have
them. Hc did not need To marry for
money.
- waat to say. too, that his present wife
is not in any way estranged from him
She deeply 'sympathizts with him in this
unfortunate affair, and only regards it as
an episode Of his PAST life, which it really
is. There is no t1sr'ble between them at Ill
"wiIiaru Botto' first wife was a woman
of low degree when he married her. The
marriage was the result of - discussion
following chanIpag gIIe supper. The woman
was shrewd snd took advantage of mo-
mentCe weakness Oh young BottO's part to
induce him to marry her.
"Mr Botto had been well educated by his
parc,,ts, and they had always supplied
him with plenty of money. They contin-
ued t. 10 30 even after he contracted this
unfortunate marriage. His wife however.
knowing his expectations OF great wealth:
led him on all sorts OF eStravagance andex-
cesses. At last his parents ordered the
Louisville Trust Coz pany not to honor any
more of his checks. Ne and his wife We're
travelling in the East. His parents tried to
notify him, but could net DO so promptly. as
they did not know his exact address.
'.MIeanw lille. this check that has caused
all tht trouble had been given Mr. Irving,
the Philadelphia hotel proprietor. 1t was
not honored. The hotel man got out an
indie ruent unknown 10 Hotto. All this
bappened before his divorce from his first
Wife"
Bo.to's counsel Is not very sanguine that
the court viii discharge the prison er.
Bp,to is being held at the Tombs awaiting
requisi,ion papers frUm the governor OF
PENNSYLVANIA. II such papers come, they
will probably be honOred by Gov. Black,
aud he Will then be transferred To Phila
oelphia, there to be tried for the offense
with which he is charged This explains
why Mrs. Botto, with unlimited means at
her command, was not able to save her son
from Incarceration In the Tombs.