Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-04-01
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sent there and / read To her the
section of the statutes on that subject.
She then said that she and her lover
were going TO run away TO Indiana
and get married. We then talked about
the marriage laws of Indiana and
Pennsylvania. | referred her to Mr..
Myers, of Motz Il Myers, of this city,
to inquire what Is the marriage law
of the later State and she left my
Office. This was the substance of all
of our conversation on that occasion
The next time she called was about
four days later. This time she was
accompanied by n young man, strang-
or 10 me. He wished to make affi-
davit to the contents of paper he
had. This WAS done. She asked
whether | had yet ascertaiped the
marriage laws of Pennsylvania. l an
swcrcd in the negative. She then said
that the young man with her was the
ono she was going to run away with.
| have a faint recollection that it was
on this occasion that she asked me to
loan her 81 until the following Satur-
day, when the people she was work
ing for would pay her and she would
then repay me. She wanted to buy
some things at the store" but / de-
clined to make the loan Then both
Of them left the Office together With
in an hour or two after she had asked
for the loan of 81, whatever day that
hnnIl N q
time alone, and said she could get
along with 80 cents and was so urgent
that / loaned her that amount until
the following Saturday. which amount
with scarcely half dozen words of
reply, | handed to her and she left,
having been in the Office this time
scarcely five minutes.
Th next time she called was on Feb.
18th. This time she was accom-
panied by another woman older than
herself. Ethel said that she had given
up getting married and was going
to Cleveland to work, and asked me
IL | would loan her u dollar to pay
her car fare, saying that ON the next
Saturday she would come back and
pay me. Both of them talked, saying
that they had n place secured in II
restaurant, or laundry, | forget which,
ready for them to go right to work.
| declined to loan her the dollar. |
said to her that her fare would be
go cents and that amount she should
borrow of some of her acQuaintnnccs.
They both went away, not having re-
maincd in the office over ten minutes.
From one to two hours later, Ethel
returned 1t was about ] O'Clock p.
III. She said that with what little
change that she had she could pay her
car fare to Cleveland. if l would loan
her 80 cents, and asked me in "A very
entreatlng manner whether | wouldn't
loan her 80 cents so that she could get
to place to work. | said | would,
but that | would have to go out to get
the change and she should meet me
Mt the foot of the stairway. She fol
lowed me out of the office | called
on Mr.. Dodge, at his furniture store,
and got change for a dollar. Re
turning to the foot of the stairway,
I'handed her two % cent pieces, with
out saying II word. and she went out
upon the walk alone and | returned
to my office. This was our last inter
view and lasted about five minutes.
Out of the above most malicious at
tempt at backmail has been made,
the plan being to get me to pay
II large sum in the nature of hush
money" to avoid publicity of and pros
ecution on the criminal charges made
against me. That having failed, then
to increase the pressure by getting
me put under bonds to answer to the
higher court on their criminal charge,
and even tn convict me, and send me
TO the pcnitentiary, If it could he
done, by scheming and perjury. Then
their way would he made easy for
civil suit for damages on equally false
grounds and false testimony. Such a
bold attempt mt extortion, such pros
titution and abuse of the process of
our courts, such n reckless assault
upon any citizens name and liberty,
should not he allowed to escape due
consideration of our officers, lawyers,
ministers and citizens generally.
AS | do not expect to hear or this
matter again in the courts, | wish to
take this opportunity to express my
thanks 10 the numerous citizens
male and female. who cordially eX
pressed 10 me their belief of my de-
mails of the accusations made against
me. And to my brother lawyers who
kindly rendered their assistance in de-
Tending me against said accusations
and to the newspaper men who did
their work fairly well, but in one
particular, making serious mistake.
While | was the subject of such n
sensation and scandal, they should
never have linked TO my name, in the
manner in which they did. the name
of an estimable, innocent and entirely
disnterested lady, for no other rea-
son than simply an idle, uncredited
rumor. But, unfortunately, they did,
ana my much-esteemed friend, Miss
Hills, saw iii TO extend the rumor
which she would suppress by decar-
ing in public print that not only such
nm engagement does not at present
exist. hut that il never did, and never
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