The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-17
WOODS READY TO SURRENDER
ATTORNEY REED SAYS, III HE rs
INDICTED ~ CALIFORNIA.
Adds That Letters Published ~ From
Col. Best to Mrs. Woods Are Genuine
A. NJ. Best Says They Arc FOrHcries

Auuo Hn0t DetUerN fUDUSneu ~ FROM
Col. Best to Mrs. Woods Are Genuine
A. NJ. Best Says They Arc ForSeries
Alfred NJ. Best, who ia investiga ing
the death of his father, William J. Best,
in California, said yesterday that lot of
| letters published yesterday as having
been written by his father to Alice Cloy
Woods, the companion of DR.. John II. Woods
for whom the police are searching. were
| forgeries and that the whole thing was an
attempt o! Woods to stop the prosecution
| OF the charges.
The letters were said to have been given
| out by John G. Reed, lawyer Of Atlantic
City. said to represent the Woodses. They
were full OF endcaring terms In which the
woman was addressed az INV Darling" and
Sweetheart, and from the language Of
them 1t would appear AZ though Best had
meant TO marry her Alfred Best said
| yesterday
These letters were not written Ivy my
| fatner. They have been manufactured.
When my brother and began proceed
ings against the Woodses at Atlantic City
and searched their rooms with the police,
woods and the woman who now Gays she
III his wife, showed us one of these letters
and threatened 10 make public a lot of
| similar ones If We Persisted in making
trouble for him. The letter was type
| written and the signature appended to il
| any one could see was very poor imitation
OF my fathers and similar to that on the
proInissory note on which the forgery charge
| lis based
/ II told Woods that We would not he scared
on in any suoh way and that he could give
out any number Of letters if he wished 10.
II would seem as though he had decided
to carry out this threat and is apparently
in communication with this lawyer In Al
lAnfir alfhnMDh 70 har
70 Niagara Falls have been unable to locate
him. Woods introduced the woman to
my father as his sister, whereas it turns
out she was his wife. The manufacture
OF these letters was nothing more than
a club"
No trace Of the Woodses has been found.
The Bests think that they probably sue
ceeded in reaching Canada. One Of the
Rests is on the way there now TO try to
locate them.
KINGSTON, y. T.. July -sherin's
| officers Of this county are looking for DIR.
John y. Woods and wife, who are said to
be IN hiding in Marbletown. II was re-
ported that Woods. with his wife and child,
was at the home OF John Terwilliger, at
Stone Ridge
Jailer Isaac Carman got description
OF Woods and his wife from New York
| and started for Stone Ridge on Tuesday
night. Al Terwiliger's the members Of
or his wife was at the house and said they
| had not seen either Of them for twenty-five
years.
woods was born in Ulster county and
has many cousins and other relatives
in Marbletown. From Terwilliger's house
CHrnlau went To other houses without
success. Here and there bits of informa-
tion were picked up which seemed to in
dictate that Woods and his wife were in
the neighborhood The search is being
continued.
Woods's right name is Dougherty, but
he adopted the name of Woods from his
siepfather, George Woods, who now lives
at Union Hill, y. Y. Woods's mother's
sister is the wife of John Terwilliger
ATLANTIC CITY. n. j., July 10. Attorney
John {, Reed says that the published letters
purporting 10 have been sent by Col Best
to Mrs. Woods are genuine, that he has more
such letters in his possession and that they
will be produced when wanted. He also
says that he knows where the Wooclses are
and that DR.. Woods will i Immediately
give himself UP if he is indicted in Cali
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