Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-06
HER MIND CHANGED
Mary Gordon u How Ready to
Help Hang Her Colorsl
Husband.
White Girl Who Married Nsgre and
Was Declared Insane Heard
From Again.
sHar rafhar,. A<fnrnn, wr,tn. IN
Her Fathers Attorney Writes to
Des Moinss Parties Colored
People Interested.

Office OF Clerk j. G.. Tate yesterday and
stated that as a result of the trial Of
Mary Gordon, the colored people of the
city were going to. "knock" Mr.. Tate at
the election today. Mr.. Tate 10 the re-
publican candidate to succeed himselfI
as clerk OF courts. and as one of the
commissioning Of insanity voted that
Mary Gordon was insane and that che
had no colored blood in her veins. The;
colored people allowed Themselves to be
worked up to an intense pitch of excite
1mellt in regard to the case, and Mr..
Early stated that this 10 the result. Ac-
|cording to his statements, at the coloreds
churches Sunday evening tho parishion-
ers were advised to work and vote
|nection in the Gordon trial % one OF the.
Judges.
Just az soon as this word was received
ling around to gee if It were reliable
friends stated that Mr.. Early must
Mr.. Tate had been made al any Of the.
self into question OF veracity between
Mr.. Early and other colored men. It 10
known. however. that the colored people.
are still considerably worked up over
the outcome OF the case. Their feelings
are incenssd still higher by the publish
ed report that Mary herself has de-
nounced them. This report was con-
firmed by letter received by an attor-
ney from Scott Miller. of Chillicothe.
the attorney who aided Jack" Cham
berlain in winning the case for Liston
Gordon. Mr.. Miller states that Mary
has told him that she would assist in
hanging Wilkinson II he ever returned
to Missouri and came into her power.
She appears to be very vindictive
against Wilkenson. according to Mr..
Miller's letter, which lie, in part, as fol-
lows:
Last night when Mary got on the
Wabash at Abba, Ia. ana saw me on
the train she came to me as a sister
would to brother, melted, completely
broken, with a full knowledge which.
seemed at that Instant to present itself
to her OF the circumstances which she
had been in and the actual position
from which she was being rescued. She
to express to melthe gratitude that she
felt for my earnest interest in her be-
half, and to my great surprise she in
sisted that should not quit in rightinS
the wrong that had been done to her
until all those black scoundrels were
placed behind the prison bars I spoke
to her of that form of man. the position
of which is unspeakabie to me, now
IN
to be her husband (great God. that
such word could be used in such con-
nectioD and she told me that ii she
owned worlds she Would give them to
repair the wrong that she had done to
her father, and insisted on his punish
sments under the law. She asked me
what 81 thought the proper punishment
would be, and I told her that nothing
would give me greater satisfaction
than to take hold of the slack end of a
rope with the black scoundrei at the
other end. The full Missouri blood
rose to the situation and She said with
I a fendish action that she could assis,
me in every pull I made. Isn't this re-
markable? Would you have thought
it,? She begged me not to leave hersun-
projected. that she might again fall
into the clutches OF this tyranicals outfit.
| She talked and cried and wondered
what she could do to ever regain her
4 self in the esteem of her father. She
says I know that with the people Of
| the world / cannot. but with him l
may. She gave me the opportunity de-
sired and gave her about an hours
Wholesome advice, as believe you
know that under the5 circumstances /
would properly contribute she spoke
of the fact that she did not ask nor in
sist that her attorney ask me to desst
in my prosecution of the black rascal.
| This was a revelation to me- but at8the
same time I did not doubt as 1t came to
this that human blood was to be
weighed against dollars and cenIe. No,
could not believe 1t. But, however,
Mary is now in safe hands and.is per-
chance this tribe whose highest am
bition 10 lower than crawling reptiles,
should find her hiding place and should
communicate with her or attempt to,
she would at once notify me. OF course
she Is In Missouri and you know the
rest
The trial Of Wilkinson and Walter
Davis Will take place at Ottumwa on
Thursday Of this week. Eli Hardin and
Jack Chamberlain expect to attend
the preliminary, and Scott Miller Of
iChillicothe will be there, prepared to
prosecute. on behalf Of the father, to
the limit Of the law. Davis will be tried,
in preliminary. on the charge Of per-
jury. as he swore before the license
clerk that Mary was Of age when she
was only u years old on the last day
OF last July. and Davis did not know
her personally. Wilkenson. is to be tried
on the charge of inducing Davis to COM