The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-10-23
|DON|E CONFESSES IDENTITY
BEFORE AUDIENCE OF 10000 HE
AckNoWLEDGEs1 TRUE BIRTH.
Is Son Of British Army officer-Name
Is Not Dowie-He Heaped Abuse on
the Elder DoWie-Gives the News
papers a Roast-Tells of Letters
SWays Audience to Tears.

New York, Oct. 27.-In a broken
voice, with tears streaming down his
face, and his body shaking with emo
ton, John Alexander Dowie stood on
the platform in Madison Square Gar
den before an audience Of 10000 per-
sons, and announced that, in truth,
he was not the son of John Murray
Dowie OF Essex, Iowa, from whom he
takes his patronymic, but of a British
army officer Of high family. by a
Scotch marriage" He heaped villifi-
cation and denunciation upon John
Murray Dowie, who, he declared. had
made his mother believe her marriage
to Dowies father was shameful, and
the army officer, having been taken
away by his relatives, his mother, in
the first flush of her shame. had
sought to give her son a name by mar
rying John Murray Dowie.
| The revelation was made at the end
of an hours trade against the press
of this city, it's treatment Of his work
and himself being styled conspiracy
of falsehood,' the reporters denounced
as yellow dogs, poisonous reptiles,
who have wrecked thousands Of homes
and broken thousands of hearts"
He led up to the publication of ex-
tracts of letters passing between him
self and John Murray Dowie, indicat-
ing Dowie's remuneration of the lat
ter as parent, and which were re-
sponsible for the general overseer's
partial exposition of the great secret
of his life. Shouting one moment in
fit of violent rage at the newspapers,
, Dowie would the next moment speak
in the most gentle voice of his mother
and his wife. The great audience was
I moved by his emotion. Women wept,
. and at times bursts of applause greet
. ed his declarations.
q Dowie announced that just one year
ago he had addressed meeting in
4 Chicago, in which he had told of an
v attempt at blackmail by man writ
, ing from Boston, who claimed to have
O certain letters which had passed be-
n tween himself and John Murray Dowie.
THAT man wrote" said Mr.. Dowie,
that the letters, if published, might
cause me annoyance, and in the gene
TOSlIy VI Ills uSdiI odlu tudI loi PIVoo
:; he would turn them over to me instead
B. Of Chicago newspaper. Garbled ex
y tracts from these letters were publish
ed in paper in this city this morn
'c ing. l challenge that paper to pro
duce the original letters which, al
er printed, are only misrepresented ex
N tracts, distortions and largely concoc
20 lions. They were obtained either from
the man who tried to blackmail me 6
year ago, gotten from John Murra!
Dowie by him a. Essex, Iowa, or elst
lie John Murray Dowie, poor, wicked
man, was SO far lost to shame as tt
We sell the letters of him who he sait
ID was his son. These letters have be
e. come public either by robbery or IL
O. much more wicked way"
p Mr.. Dowie was becoming greatly ex
&C. cited, and tramped the platform witt
nervous steps, his frame quiverini
ng with the intensity of his emotion.
es "The best proof that John Murra.
w. Dowie was not my father" he shouted
us 'is that he has given up my letters t.
III him, rebuking him for the most tel
m rible sin a man could ever commit, il
gn my judgment"