New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-27
DOWIE TELLS OF BIRTH.
SON OF ARMY OFFICER.
Mother Married to Shield Son s
Name, He Sans.


Alexander Dowie stood on the platform in Madison
Square Garden last evening. before an audience
Of ten Qlousand people. and told his restoration
host and the strangers present that in truth he
was not the of John Murray Dowie. Of Essex
Iowa from whom he takes his surname, but the
OF q British Army officer of high family. by
a Scotch marriage" He heaped vffcation ana
denunciation upon John Murray Dowie, who, ne
declared had made his mother believe her mar
riage to Dowie's father was shameful and the
army officer having been swept away by MS reia-
tives, his mother had sought to give her son
name by marrying John Murray Dowie
The revelation was made at the end OF an hour
TRADE against the press of this city, ls treatment
Of his work and himself being dubbed CON
spracy of falsehood" Reporters were called vel
low dogs poisonous reptiles which have wrecked
thousands of homes and broken thousands OF
hearts" 'Dowie denounced In the most expressive
adjectives his extensive vocabulary is capable OF
the press OF the city, and in passionate rage de-
clared the yellow dog" should be muzzled by a
censorship law If the country is to be saved.
In this way he led up to the publication yesterday
OF extracts from letters passing between DR.. Dowe
and John Murray Dowie. indicating Dr. Dowie's
remuneration of the latter a parent. and which
responsible for the General overseers partial
exposition of the secret of his life.
Dowie announced that just year ago yester-
day he had addressed a meeting in the Auditorium.
Chicago. at which he had told Of attempt at
blackman by a man writing from Boston. who said
he had certain letters which had passed between
himself and John Murray Dowie. He added:
That man wrote that the letters if published
might cause me annSysnce ana me e oT t
me, instead of TO Chicago newspape,rI CARRIED
paper in this city this morning 1 challenge that
paper to produce the original letters, what was
torted quotation and largely pure concoCuon ob-
tanned either from the man who tried to black lack
mail me a year ago. gotten by him from John Muir
Bu Dow oo e ssN man was So far lost to me as
q letters
his These letters have come either by rop-
berry sin much deeper and more wicked the
The best proof that John Murray Dowie was not ct
him rebuking him for the most terrible sin a man
S4aG fVgr v SS Would care but there is one
the dearest sweetest. purest woman that ever was.
mother.
After Overseer V. V. Barnes. judicial arbitrator
of Zion; Charles J. Barnard, the Zion financial
agent, and Overseer Excel had verified Dowies
statement the General Overseer continued:
Now that this has come before the world. had
better tell the story. / had determined long ago
that If ever il must come out. wherever was, no
matter what the assemblage. should tell my story
beautiful. She was from childhood to womanhoo.o
She greatly beloved by the privates and Officers
of one of the foremost regiments Of the British
army. Our home near the post or the reslrleht;
My people. on side at least, had been connected
Supposed iTp SEQ was the son of John Murray Dowie
who lives in Essex. Iowa, and never ceased
rbde ne v@ry often He WAS mean and hypocritcal
and as the years rolled ne grew worst had
no sympathy for him vas not aIfbin " in eli
my life / never knew what fear was -
l will tell you the naked truth. How many years
had been away from me for many years. Then
ne fell upon ey h a "nT y o S cost from Aus
traIa, and gave him room and living IN Any my
turbing him He quickly showed that he hadn't i1s q
Iuha T hat all I
one day he fell ill., He was afraid to call doc
tor he did dare to ask God to save him, and he
was manifesty dying was passing MS adoT W afd
You will never recover. nor will God ever hear
you because your religion has r You Viii Sp haVe
to confess" he looked up at me feartu!Iy nag
e John aHf bas tTue bu9 anu so Sick eanot tell
YOU now but will Il you walt UNTIL br, I'm f od
accepts that VOW. | am aPundantly willing Wiling .nd
PRAYED t aHu J sne1eTed aS Do"'' was
/ left him and did not again see him until one
John" he said. THE time has come and don't
know how to tell you what you are to know. but
knew then that had been robbed of my birth
that was not his. son. knew that he had mar mar
ried my mother in March; and that had been born
so sood ftra noble motbaT had been tTcked into
Scotch man marriage with British Army Off
Ger of high standing. whose relatives had hurried
hde G Rer shame had married. That Vic seounr
%hP sat Ie5e PetOfT Wd me a beore would have
given my right place in the world For there Is
Murray Dowie invalid. And the Scotch mar
riage could never nave been invaldated, and was
which might have attained is. it is not for to
say. shall never seek It, for if 1t carried with it
would not want to change it for the office I hold
and the ministry 1 minister TO God.
My father was man OF high standing. L nave
looked up his career. He led one OF the great
soldier at the head Of his troops
/ want to say that never wanted this story to
Of the miserable aconndrei who in order to strike
me, sold the letters in which reproached him
There is humiliation. 1 have no name except that
of a scoundrel who is not my father. But am
glad-ohi SO gad-that my mother, my dear, be
loved mother is where that ruffian hunt her
no more. / am glad that my wife and son are on
bear the whole thing alone. am glad God made
as am. But tonight feel the shame and
great city and deal with the dirt and filth and
feeling gives glory to God that he make OF
what he has. One thing / know. and that is
The address closed by Dowie's saying that his
prelude TO his sermon had taken the whole period
Dowie's barouche and fine pair Of carriage horses
seized by Deputy Sherifs Wallace and Alt
man at the Garden yesterday under an attach
ment issued in the Supreme Court of Westchester
County at White Plains last week to Robert G
then the vehicle and horses We're taken by the
an adjudication OF the case in litigation can be
The attachment is for the sum Of soso, said to
ing Of Dowie's healers who had been arrested
Dowie was ANNOYED at the seizure Of his team
and coach and declined to discuss the affair in any
way other than TO declare he would not submit TO
When Deputy sherifs Wallace and Altman were
seen later they said they had had strenuous time
IN seiZng the coach and team.
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