Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-04
AAR9)N KNOWS No ONE
Those With Whom He Was
Most Intimate While Here
Are as Strangers Now
MANY PEOPLE IDENTIFY HIM
H. j. AIIard Visits the Jail and Offers
Him the Use of Office Rooms, for
Which He signed Lease While Here
Fails to Recognize His supern-
intendent of Agencies.
MANY PEOPLE IDENTIFY HIM

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IN the county Jail. He will be able to
sing it with great pathos and expires :
sion before many days, providing he
can get time to practice He has such
headache HOW, and doesn't like to be
bothered, and the food hat the county
furnishes is really vile. Marson wasn't
raised on jail food. altho he has had an
opportunity of sampIng good deal OF
II during his long, checkered and
striped" career.
Mafson, for man as we'll educated
as he is, college bred and intelligent
beyond the shadow of a doubt, has the
poorest memory Imaginable He doesn'
consider that his memory is failing him
either. and will not even admit that il
Is poor. The fact of tho matter is, To
hear him tell it. he has never seen
these people here before. How could
he, then. remember them?
ii. j. Allard. who rented Maison a
suite of rooms last February, and who
still has the lease. which bears Mai
sons signature as general mallager OF
the Seminole Manufacturing Company,
called on him in jail this afternoon.
How do you do, Mr.. Mason2" said Mr..
Allard, as he extended his hand after
Sheriff Shoemaker had formally intro
duced them. 1t was difficult for Mai
son to catch the name. but he did
finally. You don't remember me
then?' said Mr. Allard.
Il never saw YOU before in the world,
to my knowledge" replied Marson.
Il just wondered said Mr.. .Allard,
IF you couldn't send your Office boy
around this afternoon with the check
for the rooms you ren.ed of me?
have them all ready for YOU and would
like to have my money"
What are you talking about, MANI"
replied Marson. Il don't know you;
never saw you before. and don't know
what you are referring to when you
speak OF rooms
Mr.. Alfard then explained to him
about them, and Marson didn't appear
interested. He kept rubbing his head.
as he gazed out of his cell window. I
have such a headache" he said. He
then asked Sheriff Shoemaker to please
lot TO bother him any more. L don't
want to meet these people, for ! don't
know them. l have seen some of them
before, somewhere, I'll admit, but not
here. My attorney has told me not to
talk. and l am not going to. so what is
the use OF annoying me-" The sheriff
replied that he only wished to clearly
establish the Identification. Marson
remarked that so many people claimed
10 know him as Maison, and added:
NJ
learn, must have been scalawag. 1t
is strange they should take me for
him. Some one suggested that Mai
son was a sealawag.
Marson was also visited by George
r. Norris. T. p. Low. of Green Noun
tain, George McMichael and Mrs. Min
ME Allen. Norris was present when
the rooms were leased him by Mr.. AL
lard. Mr. Low was al the Green Noun
tain church when Evangelist Marson
told his pathetic stories and sang his
sweet songs and collected his little 81,
which he didn't want himself. but was
going TO give to poor old soldier, In
the Soldiers Home, who was dying With
consumption. Mr.. McMichael was
Maison's superintendent of agencies.
and was already at work at Waterloo
when Maison skipped out here on
March 1st Mrs. Allen has a claim of
So against him for stenographic work,
done while here last winter. Marson
didn't know any of them, altho he adj
mitted having seen Mrs. Allen some
place. but not here.
Marson doesn't like the meals served
by Sheriff Shoemaker. but he did take
a little breakfast. Thursday evening
he sent out for his supper, to a restau
rant, and ate quite heartily. His noon
day meal was scarcely touched today.
He has been bothered so much, while in
jail, that he is Frustrated with one OF
those dreadful nervous headaches.
Wants Muscatine Bills Sent Here.
Marson is anxious to settle up all of
his debts at Muscatine, and has re-
quested the fact TO be made public
The Muscatine Journal OF Thursday
evening says:
what word shall I leave to MY
friends? responded r. E. Meyers, ac
cused Of various crimes in various cit
les, and now In Jail in MarshalltoNn,
as he walked to the station last even
ing. Tell them that they shall see Inc
again under circumstances decidedly
more favorable to myself. Nobody has
been wronged but me: no harm has
been done, but what has been done to
me; nobody has been abused but me:
| am the only sufferer.
Yes, l will pay my debts All Of
them? Certainly. Those of the I'm
perial company as we'll as my own
Meyers requested the Journal represent
tative to make public announcement
that everybody who had a claim against
him should send it to him at once. Adj
dress. f. E. Meyers. care of Sheriff |
Shoemaker, Marshalltown. Iowa.
The reporter told him that he would |
insert the ad and If there We're any adj /
yertisng charges he would pay them
himself
Nov I insist that you urge upon
the people of Muscatine who have bills
against me or my company, that they
send in their claims at once. They
should not neglect this matter, ard
hey will be rendering me very great
assistance in taking care of their in
erests promptly. The bills will all he |
oaid one hundred cents on the dollar
have only one thing to regret, and
hat is the suffering of my friends.
ion't object to going to Marshalltown
md l am glad to leave Muscatine for
he present, but the thoughts of my
friends will worry me for days
Had you heard, Meyers" asked the
'eporter, that your church reception
vas called off?
No? Indeed responded Meyers