Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11

for some time. Twice he had untustly at
tempted to make her leave her home. My
wife and myself had taken her side in the
controversy that arose between them, and
she had consulted me for legal advice and
protection. During this time the man him.
self was In intimate relations with a wo-
man whom he desired to marry. For that
purpose 1t was necessary to be free from
his wife. He discovered the fact that his
wife knew OF these relations by gaining &C
cess cess to the safe deposit vault where she
Kept her paper, through forgery and writ
ten order over her blank signature, and
purloining the keys from her.
Being thus apprised Of the evidence
against him, he determined to anticipate
her action by bringing an action himself in
order that he might have the appearance
OF being the injured party, and out OF the
vindictiveness and desire to injure me as
much as possible he made me a defendant
In the action. His allegations were prop
erly denied and the issues would have been
squarely met when his death occurred at
the hands OF some unknown woman, whom
he had invited to his house at midnight.
Nothing more unfortunate could have oc-
Cured for everybody concerned, as the en-
tire matter necessarily became public, and
II the truth could have appeared the harm
would not have been so great but truth
ana yellow Journalism are at opposite poles
and consequently mass of lies, fiction and
Imagination was published which had no
possible basis in fact, but for the sake OF
those most concerned some of these mis-
representations must be taken up and met.
F1rst-In reference to the office which l
was alleged to have maintained in Chilli
colt square. That office was leased and
furnished by me under an ARRANGEMENT
with another man to do a collection bust
ness. Shortly after that arrangement he re-
cefved an offer of salaried position in an
other city, which he desired to accept 1
arranged, therefore, to release him and no
business was ever done in the office. nor
was 1t ever used as a meeting place in any
manner SO falsely and unjustly indicated
Secondly, In reference to the alleged
statements of New York detective agency
whose main business seems to have been to
give their clients secrets to the public 1
desire to say that. without knowing what
arrangements were made with them by any
person, any statements on the part of such
agency tending to reflect in any way upon
either myself or any other person involved
are unqualifiedly false and have no basis In
1act. Ihey are made up of those unfounded
statements Of this class of spies which have
become of such doubtful value that even in
the courts it is now almost always held that
the presumption Is against their credibility.
inlrdiy, during the pendancy Of the d.
vorce action 1t became necessary for me to
consult with the defendant in reference to (.
the course to pursue. For that purpose 1t
was necessary that meeting should take
place here, In New York, or Atlantic City.
but In such cases. as can be absolutely
proven these meetings were In such places
ana under such circumstances as to abso-
lutely negative any other idea than the
purpose or transacting the affairs relative
to the divorce action
Finally, it may be said that the crime is
as great mystery to the writer as to any
one Terrible notoriety and publicity has
been brought upon people, more especially
women. who have entirely undeserved it.
and great wrongs have been done all con-
cerned, especially to the family which has |
SUFFERED. and must suffer. most. For that |
we must thank the spirit of yellow Journal
Ism, which does not hesitate to violate |
every principle of truth honor chiyaIry
justice and sanctity in those efforts to make
news and sell papers. which make that |
style of journalism one of the sickenine
things of modern civilization