The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-08-26

Some subtle and lneXplicable influence took
possession of her mind and heart. In few
DAYS aftet marriage she turned against the
best friends of her life. She formed alli>
ances and associations that could have but
one tendency, to corrupt her morals and
wreck her womanhood.
"The case was PLACED in the hands OF
DR.. ROYAL anb DR.. Kelly of Portland. DR..
Royal had been the trusted family physi-
clan, who while making diagnosis of the
case, tried by all the powers of persuasion
to prevent the fatal step contemplated BY
the infatuated or demented child. And, in
order to remove her from the impending
danger a move was made from Portland to
Tacoma. But, within week new, and if
POSSIBLE, more fatal associations were form
ed, and at my advice, nv wife. only con-
valeScent from a severe injury. and who
| had expected to accompany me to Alaska,
: remained in Tacoma in order to make one
more supreme effort to hold with mothers
love, the now determined, reckless and
seemly insane daughter.
"But it was of no avail she left the
sheltering roof of virtuouS home and
threw herself into the whirlpool of sinful
lite, Even after all this both mother and
husband did not abandon her and went
with tears to her in her new surroundings
and plead as only mother can plead
This husband, who according to her
statement, was so cruel, went to her bed
side at the hospital, combed her hair and
caressed her tendery, and plead for her re-
turn. and he would not even ask her to
/ live with him as his wife.
''Finallv the scandal and shame of it
necessitated the closing up of promising
business, and with broken hearts, whose
deep and awful sorrow only the wounded
spirit NAV l<aewsstheyetu turned swav from
their lost jewel and came to Skagway to
Law their sorrow uPon another heart that
thev knew would be moved to deepest
/ sympathy in the family calamity, little
thinking that to the sin of ingratitude
should be added that of malicious and vim
dictiVe falsehoOd
The statements made in a recent article
in Tacoma paper, purporting to be an in
terview with my daughter are false from
beginning to end.
''GladIv would we have buried our sor-
row in our own bosoms and hidden still
longer from the gaze of all men the awful
fall of once pure spirit. But that Is now
denied US by the scandal mongers of the
press. And now, painful though it be,
when the purity and constancy of the wife
of nv youth are called into question, she
who for nearly third of a century has
travelled side by side with me, irving by
orecept and example to teach the highest
ideals of private virtue and domestic hap
piness. II becomes my first and highest
duty to defend her honor and the honor Of
my home.
And SO far as the young man Is CONCERN
ed, 1t seemed not sufficient that WITHIN a
few short weeks the savings Of several
years of toll and economy should be scat
tered to the winds, and after spending hun
dreds of dollars in unnecessary adornments
on his bride, his dream of + lisS should end
in an awful nightmare of voiceless sorrow.
'But that after wounding and stabbing
as loving heart as ever beat in manly
breast, he should be made the target of
vile newspaper scandal, every item of
which is fictitious, the proof of which now
hold. would as soon suspect the angel
Gabriel of impurtv as to impute ANYTHING
but the highest ideals of Christian man
hood to w. ). Gregory.
but in closing, beg of public opinion
the most charitable view that can be taken
of this most unhappy chapter in our fam
| ily lite. II is the view of leading phvsi
clans, DR.. Kelly and DR., ROYAL. of Port
land, and Dr. Smith OF the Marine hospi-
tai. Tacoma, that an unbalanced mind
alone can account for the conduct of my
once loving daughter.
Meantime thank sympathySiziDg
friends for their expressions of HEARTFELT
sorrow. This Is time when the Divine
injunction, Bear We one anothers burdens,
can be followed to the highest develop.
ment of our christian graces.
II implore all christian hearts to remem-
Der US in their PRAYER, and fall not to call
upon God on behalf of our wandering
one, "