The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-23
r an indefinite period. bought trunks

and travelling bags, said goodby to
our friends and waited for telegram
asking us to meet the party in Chi
cago. We had been toldSthat Thomas
had bought the tickets to Europe, that
he and the sSamuelses were to meet us
in Chicago,2>t the money was to be
drawn, then we were all to- proceed
to New York and thence across the
ocean to England, where we were to
be guests of Samuels in his country
home in Penzance.
A Rude Shock, This. -
These preparations made, and, In
deed, our trunks packed for transpOr-
tation, like a bolt from as"clear sky
came a letter from Mrs. Gates an
nouncing that we would not be able to
leave before Aug. 15. This very same
day / received a. letter. from Mil
waukee man asking .tOcsee me in his
office on important business. He is
remotely related to Mrs. Gates by mar
riage. He bluntly announced to me
that he had sent for me to discuss
Mrs. Gates business with me, but I
Indignantly refused, to say..a word
about the private affairs of one of my
patients. He was the man whom Mrs.
Gates had told me had annoyed her
so much by writing letters to the va
rious institutions with which she ex-
pected to transact business. All of
these letters, SO she said, had been
sent to her or to Samuelss by the in
situations receiving them. This man,
whom we will call Smith, then said
he had evidence that Mrs. Gates had
been indicted for fraud in Minneapolis.
and he tried to persuade me to read
som ething he had to prove his point.
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son to think that his desire to, pros
tect me was not SO great as his desire
to punish her for refusing to conf1de
in the family of her relatives in Mil
waukee. No matter how unjust my
suspicious Of him may have been, they
were present, nevertheless, and We're
sufficient to cause me to reject all his
efforts toward showing her up to the
world.
Here DR.. Madden tells how a Milwaukee
paper got wind of a story detrimental to
Mrs Gates, and how he, by strenuous eff
forts prevented its publication. He then
goes on:
In Search of Light.
A day or two after this I asked Nc
Clellan's advice about going up tc
Minneapolis to see Mrs. Gates and
| find out whether those people in Mil
| waukee could seriously annoy or in
| jure her. He advised it strongly.
came to Minneapolis, saw Mrs. Gates
and was assured by her that it was
utterly impossible for any one tc
make any trouble for her: so I went
back satisfied. <.
After this came Misunderstanding de-
| lays; but Mrs. Gates always had 6
plausible excuse for each. For IN
stance, when the money was not pait
the 10th of July, she said that the
demand had to be sent by mail to the
Bank of England for their O. K, hac
to be acted upon by the embassy ant
had to go to the head bank at Mon
treal before it could be acted upon b.
the branch in Chicago. Then 1T was de-
layed In Washington because OF tn
vacation period, all the officers of TIN
embassy being absent. from the cit.
at the seashore.
| Gave Money by Thousands.
In the meantime, Edwards and Nc
Clellan were putting up large sums o
money upon this pretext: Samuels
draft from England for the quartz
beginning the LIST Of July contained
an error which he must go PERSONAL!
to the foreign exchange to correct
He dreaded to go to. New York, an
his daughter dreaded to have him, d
SO, for every visit to that city was at
tended by an illness o.. from two t
ten weeks in the past. Edwards an
! Mcclellan then began to furnish Mrs
Gates money for Samuels to the ex
tent of $500 to $4,000 per. month
All of this money went. to Mrs. Gate
direct. had nothing to do with he
finances, after leaving the Sherma
house the latter part Of June. wa
consulted frequently by Edwards an
Mcclellan as to when the bushes
would end, but could give ther
nothing more than they alread
knew. Mrs. Gates told me the sam
story she told them. Still, Away
expressed an unbounded faith in tn
woman's honesty and integrity.
The LIST of September; Mrs. Gates
son, a boy of 10, was married. !
short time before this her 15-year-ol
daughter married a street car con
ductor, a decent but crude lad, by tn
way. To her invitation to the girl
wedding my wife and I sent regrets
telling Mrs. Gates very plainly an
honestly that we had not the none
to spend for that purpose. Edward
" ent to the wedding with his wife an
remained in Minneapolis a week. H
told me that Gates invited him to 6
and lunch with Samuels at Lake Mir
: netonka, but he refused to do so.
, Delay IntOlerable.
The delay by this time had becom
) positively intolerable to me. Edward
} and Mcclellan continued to send lare
sums Of money to Mrs. Gates to b
sent to Samuels. She was very strenr
Gus from the beginning, urging he
$ husband should not be told that sh
} was sending Samuels any money {
8 all. so she rented private box in til
3 Minneapolis postoffice, where she r
ceived> many of her letters.
Z Some time in September I advise
: Edwards to send no more money unit
he was entirely sure of his 3groun
:, until he knew that the fortune woul