The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-24
WEDDING SUIT FOR SALE
| NOBLESvIL4LE's MAYOR SPEAKS OF
HIS ERsTWHILE LOVE.
PIausfbIy Explains His Dealings with
the Michigan WidOw-Hia
Release on Bond.

Edgar c. Wilson, the mayor of Mobiles
vile. indicted by the grand jury on a charge
Of using the mails for fraudulent purpose,
spent most of the day yesterday in the Office
of the Unied States marshal Deputy Mar
shall Boyd went to Noblesville yesterday
and Mayor Wilson readily came down with
him. in the evening some of his friends
came down from Noblesville and he was re-
leased on bond. The charge against the
mayor is based upon lot of love letters
written to Martha Gibbs, a well-to-do
widow of Dowagiac. Mich. by means of
which, it is claimed he persuaded the widow
to loan him a considerable sum of money
which she never got back.
The amorous mayor does not look exactly
like an ideal Lothario. He appears to be
about forty-fiv5 years old. has very heavy
straw-colored mustache and looks like a
contractor in fair circumstances. He told
the tale of his disastrous courtship while
sitting in the marshars office yesterday.
There was no more intent to defraud," said
he, 'in this matter than there is in any
other business or matrimonial transaction.
1t was she who flew the track, not l.
had my wedding suit all made, and I have
it yet. 1t is very handsome the best
obese since then, it is for sale cheap.
had known the lady a number of years,
knew her when she was a married woman
and after she became widow 1 transacted
some business for her in Noblesville. was
in the real estate business and owned about
fifty houses. which had built and was
selling on the instal,ment plan. We be-
came better acquainted through our BUSH
ness correspondence and called upon her
and our friendship grew until we were en-
gagged to be married. You know those
things come about. / did not make any
Misrepresentation to her. / told her was
always hard up and though / was worth
about $4,000 / was in debt about $4,000.
The total amount / borrowed of her was
$1,000 | borrowed $3.50 at one time, giving
her = second mortgage upon building ap-
praised by the German American Building
Association at $6,000 upon which there was
a mortgage to the association OF $1,000, upon
which 81 600 had been paid. 1t seems that
she did not have this mortgage recorded. 1
did not know this and sold the building
subject to the two mortgages and got Tor
1t 81, 800 less than 1t would have been worth
without her lien upon It, The way the en-
gagement was broken was this: She had
bought four houses in Noblesville and had
intrusted me with the payment of the build
ing association dues upon them. The trans
fers had been properly made to her but
the books remained in the names of the
original borrowers. She came to NobleS-
vile one day when / was out of the city
and went to the office of the building asso-
citation and asked if her dues had been
kept up properly. j She gave her name and
they could not find it on their books. She
Immediately came to the conclusion that l
was cheating her and consulted attorneys.
She went to Kane & Kane, who. have been
enemies Of mine for years, and naturally
they did not smooth matters out. When l
returned she went for me red hot / took
the books down with her and the association
people at once explained the cause OF her
MISUNDERSTANDING. She did not get over it,
however and said that her lawyers had
advised her not to marry me- anyhow.
Thus it happens that have a wedding suit
and a lot Of furniture with which / had
fitted up my house for her reception on my
hands and for sale.
s'AIl this was two years ago and these
letters have lain in the hands of Kane &
Kane ever since. They brought them up
against me in the Farley will case and
think it was their failure to impeach me
there that caused them to lay this matter
~ a. hurry