The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-02

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 New York, March Mrs. Frances Freeland Hagaman Delabarre gave out a statement last night. Much mystery surrounded it's issuance. It was signed by Mrs. Delabarre and was given out at Dr. Flowers office at No. Il Broad way.
 Mrs Delabarre says she was married to MT. Smith when she was school girl, in her teens, and that the mar riage was an unfortunate one.
 He never supported me-" she con- tinues, and never furnished either food or clothing for myself or child After suffering for years, some of the time from want and need, I obtained di- vorce. This action was not resisted by MT. smith,
 She declares untrue assertions that she left her husband for MT. Hagaman, that she neglected her son and mar ried MT. Hagaman's coachman. She was married to MT. Hagaman, she says, two or three years after her di- vorce. She always nursed him in his | illnesses, and he would not have a trained nurse. She frequently asked him in his last illness if he did not want her to send for his brother and sisters, but he said they always made him feel worse, and that he did not care to see them. Isaac Hagaman's declara- tion that he was not allowed to see his | brother she says is a falsehood.
 MT. Willis helped her in nursing MT. Hagaman, whose mental condition was unimpaired save, possibly, for the last few days of his fatal illness. The statement continues:
 My husband had always. been in the habit of giving me his earnings, and | giving me large purchases of invest ment securities at a time. A few years before his death he came near meeting with fatal financial reverses. His house was on the wrong side of the market. He put up all his money to save his stock and his partners did the same, but still the market went against him. l MT. Hagaman came to me and asked if I would be willing to turn over to him my stocks and other investments to save his house. I told him I would be only too glad to do so, and that he could take all that I had, including | jewels, if necessary. I turned over to him a good many hundreds of thou sands of dollars of securities, mean 1 securities that could be immediately l turned into cash. It took practically all my securities to save the house, but | the house was saved. When the house got well on it's feet again my husband began buying stocks and giving them to me, putting the stocks in my name as he bought them, and turning the bonds he bought over to me. During 1890 he was buying stocks and bonds for me every month. About two months before his death he purchased $100,000 of stocks for me, and told me it was 1 the beginning only of a great many l large purchases that he would make before the end of the year. and that he | intended to repay me just as fast as he could for the money had let him have which saved the house of Purnell, flag aman & Co. When Mr. Hagaman be- | gan to realize that the chances had in- creased against his recovery he told me that he wished to fix all his affairs at once and give me what he had, so that I there could be no question about it af- ter he died. He said he did not want to make 8 will, as no lawyer seemed to l be able to make a will which another | lawyer could not break. He conse- quently had his partner come to see him, and he told him that he wished I to liquidate his business. This I think was about month before MT. Haga- man died. In the course of few days MT. Hagaman's share was taken out of | the business and it came in the form of a check to the amount of $572,O0 This MT. Hagaman turned over to me. I had MT. Hagaman's power of attor- ney to do anything he might do. in- dorsed that with other checks.
 | I gave Dr. Flower a check for $200,- 900 out of this money, but I did so af ter advising with MT. Hagaman. It was MT. Hagaman's wish that I should do so. With that money Dr. Flower bought bonds of the Blue Ridge Iron company. I also bought one or two other small lots of bonds in the same company. If MT. Hagaman had got 1 well he would have purchased very largely of the bonds and stocks of that company, and would have most likely I l I believe I am the largest bondholder in the company, owning half of the bonds sold. I have frequently visited those property, and have had them ex- amined several times. am thoroughly satisfied that they are of great value. | Dr. Flower did not doctor MT. Haga- man. I think Dr. Flower brought him occasionally, dunring the year, at MT. Hagaman's request, some of the pro- | prietary medicines of the Flower Medi- cal company, but he did not treat him in any way or give him any medicine during his sicgness. Dr. Flower was frequently with MT. Hagaman when the latter was sick, and, think, gave all the time he could from his business to help make it pleasant for MT. Haga- man. He did cheer him very greatly. When Dr. Flower was leaving Mr. Hagaman would always ask him to 1 come again when he could.
 I settled with the Hagamans and got what I believe was a valid and good 1 release, and sent them the amount of money they requested.
 DIR. FLOWERS STATEMENT l Dr. Richard c. Flower also gave out @ statement, in which he denied almost everything that has been alleged against him. He says in part: