The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-13
ESTABLISHED 1871.

the City Vigilance League. Mr.. Marcus
appears as attorney of record for Mr..
Foote.
In the action for divorce Mr.. Foote al
leges that he married Helen NJ. Long at
Fayetteville, n. Y, on April %, 1891. AS
the firsI correspondent he names John
Maiden. and says the wrong acts occur
red from January to November, 1895. Mi.
Flagler comes next, and the affidavit says
that Mrs. Foote and Mr. Flagler were to-
gether at an apartment house from De-
cember, 1896 to June 1897, and that during
June and July of the same year Mr..
Flagler and Mrs. Foote were on Mr.
Flagler'S yacht, the Alicia: after that they
were at p East Fifty seventh street. This
house, Mr., Foote claims, Mr.. Flagler gave
his wife as a present, i'm addition to about
100000 in stocks and bonds.
John w. O'Bannon, the last correspond
ent named, is in business at "A Duane
street. 1t appears that Mrs. Foote went
to South Dakota and obtained a divorce
from her husband on Dec, s last. Imme-
diately after the divorce she married Mr.
O'Bannon. Mr., Foote alleges that this di-
vorce is not legal and it is on this
ground that Mr. O'Bannon is named.
The publication of these stories with
various embellishments, has caused the
controversy between Mr. Marcus and ex-
T
Intyre, who appears for Mr.. OBannon.
Mr.. Flager's counsel is ex-Congressman
John Murray Mitchell, who, when seen at
his office, 25 Broad street, yesterday, said
that he was the attorney for Mr.. Flagler
in the suit which was brought in White
Plains by Maiden; that in that action Mr..
Flagler appeared in court, ready for
trial, and the complaint was dismissed
and Judgment entered against the plain
tiff for costs. He had no knowledge of
any other action having been brought
against Mr. Flagler. and if there is any,
he says that In his opinion it is for the
purpose of blackmail, as was the case
in the suit which was brought by NAL
den, and which was dismissed.
Mr.. Mcintyre, when seen, said:
'The case is a plain attempt at black
mail. The attorney of record is a mere
Office boy He runs errands for an attor-
ney of some prominence. who was APP
parently afraid to have his name appear
as attorney of record. Propositions have
been made to eliminate certain names
from the case for a monetary consider
alton.
"OVertures have been made for a settle
ment with Mr.. Flagler and I will stake
my reputation as a public prosecutor on
the statement that / will have some peo-
pie who have posed in this community as
extra good in the penitentiary inside Of
sixty days. The evidence of conspiracy is
nearly complete in my hands and think
I know what kind of evidence is necessary
i'm such cases.
81 will say positively that Mr.. Flagler
| has not been sued, as alleged, for the
alienation of Mr.. Foote'S wife's affec-
tons
Mr.. Mcintyre also said that he had de-
tectives trying TO locate both Maiden and
Mr. Foote, and had as yet failed to find
either of them. Maiden was formerly a
clerk in the New York Central offices, and
! Foote is an agent FOR one of the express
companies at some town up the state.
After the interview with Mr. Mcintyre
Mr. Marcus was seen again. and was ask
ed how the facts of the case. became pub
lie, when the papers had not yet been
| filed in the Supreme Court and the only
! copies We're in his and the counsel for
the defense's possession. Il suppose the
other side gave the facts out We didn't IT,
replied the lawyer.
by the way" he continued. "if you
| publish any names of counsel i'm this
case, just use that of Mr.. Marcus, as he
! is the attorney of record, and do not
mention Mr.. Moss" Mr. Moss was not
at his office yesterday, and Mr.. Marcus.
in speaking for him. said that he was
not in the case, and further declared that
Mr. Mcintyre did not dare directly ac-
cuse either himself or Mr. Moss of being
! in a conspiracy. lie also denied the
charge that offers to eliminate certain
names from the papers had been made.
The wife of Mr.. Flagler has been con-
! fined in a sanitarium for over two years.
Up to recently Mr.. F'iagler was her com
mittee. He was discharged in the Su-
preme Court ON his representation that
in the future he desired to make his home
| in Florida