The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1903-10-31
DONIE REVEALS HIS IDENTITY
BEFORE AUDIENCE OF 10000 HE
ACKNOWLEDGES TRUE BIRTH.
Is Son Of British Army offiesr-Name
Is Not Dowie--hie Heaped Abuse on
the Elder poWie-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
tion, 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
Dowle OF Essex. Iowa, from whom he
takes his patronymic, but of British
army officer of high family, by a
Scotch marriage. he heaped yilhh-
cation and denunciation upon John
Murray Dowie, who. he declared. had
made his mother believe her marriage
10 Dowie's father was shameful, and
the army officer. having been taken
away by his relatives, his mother. in
the first hush OF her shame. had
sought 10 give her son a name by mar
rylng John Murray Dowie.
The revelation was made ar the end
Of an hours TRADE against the press
Of this city, its 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 a parent, and which were re-
sponsible for the general oyerseer's
partial exposition of the great secret
Of his life. Shouting one moment in
fit of violent rage at tAe newspapers
Dowie would the next moment speak
in the most gentle voice OF his mother
and his wife. The great audience wa:
moved by his emotion. Women wept
and at times bursts OF applause greet
ed his declarations.
DOwie announced that just one yea
ago he had addressed a meeting il
Chicago, in which he had told Of al
attempt at blackmail by a man writ
ing from Boston, who claimed to hay,
certain letters which had passed be
tween himself and John Murray Dowie
That man wrote" said Mr.. Dowie
LusSt the ACLtEGSs II RGDtA5uEus
cause me annoy ance, and in the gene
rosity Of his heart said that for 500
he would turn them over to me instea
of a Chicago newspaper. Garbled e
tracts from these letters were publish
ed in a paper in this city this morI
ing. l challenge that paper to PR
duce the original letters which. a
printed, are only misrepresented e.
tracts, distortions and largely concot
tions. They were obtained either froI
the man who tried to blackmail me
year ago, gotten from John Murra
Dowie by him A. Essex, Iowa, or els
John Murray Dowie, poor. wicke
man, was so far lost TO shame as
sell the letters of him who he sal
was his SON. These letters have b.
come public either by robbery or
a much more wicked way"
Mr.. Dowie was becoming greatly e.
cited, and tramped the platform wit
nervous steps. his frame Cuiverin
with the intensity of his emotion.
THE best proof that John Murra
Dowie was not my father" he shoutet
''is that he has given up my letters
him. rebuking him for the most te
rible sin a man could ever commit,
nv Judgment"