The San Francisco call., 1898-06-04
Wanted Companya and So v y. Wrote Mrs. Williams.
NEVILL's LETTERS WERE KEPT
CHARGED WITH MIsUsINa THE .. .:..:: :.. F.: F. :. MAILS. :: -
Darling Elsie and From Your Willie Only Serve to Spur
 q Desire for Legal *. ..='|.:-.. :: :+ Revenge. :

The defendapts in the case of Neyills Hs: MflliaIps. ct al; now. pending in the .Pqlce. Court have commenced to back nre' and as. a result there is d case now
 before, the United States courts: of Wil- Hams .Ns .NeYil Is, and the Inining. man is la6orlng under the rather embarrassing eharge. of sending, obscene letters through the mails = =4 .::.. :=..: :.
 The complaint was sworn to by Mrs.
 WllhaIns yesteFdays and withintw hours the defendant was @fustling up bail nIonev to avoid a prison cell. There are three counts to, the complaint each one based
 upon a. letter the. aInorous r1ine-owner had written, | The first was dated June 15
 1eSi.. II. was. addressed to. My dear Elsie Ann,+: and was. signed rom yj5llr l> ll- A The secQIld letter was dated June 26. rit. was addressed to t'Dear. Elsie,,t and.
 was <s{gned, From NilEi, The. third was addressed ''1 Darling Elsie, r and tlle sig nal I Ire: read : From yohr loving. Will.'': Al the letters We're ,niailedsin Jamestown, ! oIuInne- Geuhty, and were addressed to Mrs. Elsie Williams, l; resIlo;
 It was not .td. tie form Of address that the c9mplaiilant 6bJec ted. howeyer;;1it was to tic. contents of. the nIissiVes which she states in her "eoirpl atnt are not fit to De mace part If the pLsadings in the case:
 Il ne Ian Suase 4ls; not all it should be- and the writing is spmeMEat of a study; but, 'iil ter d careful r erusal ix may be gath. cred. from.tne: sCEeeds that NeXiiLs thought he was lonely and he @yrfts: signing for tic company 0t1the fair Fresno widow, and lie wished that She should know. tt.:So he wrote and told. Tier SO l5fiiS4. was a year ago. but 1t may have fakei the lady that long to deciphef the tfoe4rn eri{s- Any: way she thanks they are acti@rGlBl&, and she is going 10 see If the eQurt Hrfll take the same view. :..::. f < Neytll.s was arrested by Deputy Marshal MQfhtt.ye esrerday morning in the Palace
 Hotel. He was" surprised. and asked for the complaiut. It was read to him. and
 " hile 1t. made. matters g.: bit clearer it drought but little satisfaetion.~, His hlint Tor bondsMen resulted iii the finding of. Henry WadsWOrthi a ;fank cashier, and. Thomas B. Pheby, a mining man, both of %hom qualified for $iQ00: The prisoner
 and the bondsnlen were brought before . tOmmlsSioner. .Edeacock;: and :N@vjffs was
 let gO.. He will be examined blythe Com missioner on the morning of: June: Is: :: : In the meantime, the case of Nevilfsr rVs: Williams ct al: has been put over: until June l3, on account-of the Illness of Judge .Jgachimseni :: '<. -.,..s. si:s. ': :s' The letters which mean more. trouble for
 AeVllls are three of a number he wrote ito the fair widow when he: thought: there are. naturally, ilt erestfng.-. He paid. high Tor them once when he thought: he was
 gett'ng them all back, but he found the lady. had held back a few of the niore HfusiVe. and was willing to- bart with
 psem only for a considerations She flg- .Ured they Were worth $95.O00, and she had no hesitation in asking that sum. NeyilIs
 paid. S259O on account and then decided
 that he would have to fight the case. any
 way, and he might as well use his money in prosecutions as in lkeepirg peopie quiet
 so he had Darling Esie,' Der sister (AIrs. Grace Loose) and his former superintend-
 ent (M. H. Azhderian with whom he. charges his late inamOrata was in leaguej,
 haled to court on a charge of blackmail.
 But now Elsie has found three more let ters with which to try her legal luck, and
 she does not intend to miss the chance.