Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-05
due to Jealous Wife's ACCUSE
tions Against Husband and
Innocent Girl.
Ia,RL LEAVES plrlFuL LETTERS
became Despondent and HumiIiated
Dy Tormentor, and Drank carbolio
Aeld-Dr. Tucker, Who Was Seem
lnsly still In Love With Accusing
Wife, In Despair Shoots Himself
Special to rimes-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines Dec 5.-A jealous wom-
ms accusations Of improper conduct
oetween her divorced husband ana
eheir former domestic, Miss Anna
Clark caused the girl to commit suicide
BY drinking carbolic acid. Despond-
ont and frenzied over the troubles in
his home, but apparently still loving
his accusing wife, the husband, on
bearing the girl had killed herself, drew
revolver and took his own life. He
killed himself after partial reconcilia
ton with his wife. who had, under his
threats Of suicide, agreed to remarry
him. DR.. Tucker. the suicide, was
quite prominently known and was a
man OF some wealth. Anna Clark, the
girl who killed herself, had worked in
the doctors household. She wse' a
pretty girl, and 1t was claimed by the
doctors wife that she had become I'M
duly intimate with Tucker. There Is
reason to believe the girl was wholly
innocent OF any wrongdoing, and there
was nothing improper between her and
DR.. Tucker. The girls name Is Anna
Clark, and her mother. who had been
divorced from her husband, lives in Me-
Nada, Iowa.
It appears that the home of DR.. Tuck
er had been one OF turmoil for many
years and that the wife was !nsauely
Jealous, which finally resulted in ']I-
torcs proceedings. Then the woman
attempted to force the Clark girl TO
marry her divorced husband, in spite
OF the fact that the girl was only is
years old, and DR.. Tucker was 65. The
kirl, who had no home, became de-
spondent and Inundated by the cnarg-
es made against her by the Tucker
woman, determined to end all by taking
acid. She left number Of letters.
one Of them to DR.. Tucker, in which she
pathetically tried to explain that when
had ruined her, she meant that their
influence had been bad for her, and not
that there had been any criminal rela-
lions, as the Tucker woman wished to
construe 1t. All Of the girls letters
were In the same tone. The one to DR..
Tucker follows:
'Kind Friend: feel that life is a
burden to me and that can no longer
stand It. The thought Of being ac-
cused Of something that never entered
my brain. Your wife demanded me to
marry you, so that your life might be
saved. But such thing shall never
do, under any circumstances. AS to
the word ruin. simply meant by that
that you and your wife had me under
your influence, which was Of no good
to me, II anything, q harm, for she
always said that she had an influence
ever me, and that you had also. She
also accuses me Of being intimate with
another, but say that certainly is a
falsehood. simply said that the par
tvs wife was insanely Jealous IS your
own wife. Whether the public believe
we are innocent Of the criminal Of
fence that she charges upon U.S."
yet there 10 One above who knows
false and He alone shall be our Judge,
and we shall never be judged for such.
A. she states thru me her home was
broken up. am sorry for 1t that she
accused me also, for one false accu-
sation 10 enough. Yet 1t was her
mothers tongue and her Jealous dispo-
sition. My shoulders are broad and
j can carry It all. She also says that
you confessed to her that you were
guilty, and I told her that you could
not<tell such, for nothing Of the kind
hassever taken place with myself and
you. However, will forgive her, for
the God in heaven shall Judge her and
not I, but you will see the day where
she has wronged us. / have only pray
ed that you two could go back to each
other, and be one in body and two IN
flesh as before, for after am gone
she cannot accuse me Of such. But
the word ruin did not mean what she
said mean.
Il simply mean that you two hold an
influence over me and it was for no
good. And shall never come before
God with the stain Of such a false ac-
cusation, for God has given ME my
virtue. and that I intend to keep as
long as God gives me my life AS
am out OF the trouble, see that she
is not satisfied resting in peace and
is trying to start something again.
When my conscience is clear, what
need fear? I can face anybody IN
this, and have only the same one story
to tell one and all. Do not think me
and stiok to the woman that loves you
dearly. For actions will speak louder
than words, and my action now show
that am not as she represents me.
But I'll forgive her foA am not her
Judge"