The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-08-03
THOUGH RICH, He SAYS
LET MOTHER STARVE'
Wealthy Broker Refuses Her
$I2 to Prevent Eviction
by Landlord.
LIVES AT THE WALDORF
James L. Foye, Manager Of Gates, Of
flee, Says He'll Not Give a Gent
Remarkable Attitude of
Prosperous Man.

new YORK., Aug. flames -. -EtOye,
assistant manager of the Charles G..
Gates brokerage offices in the Waldorf
Astoria, n himself a guest of the
Waldorf. said today he would not pay
one cent toward the support Of his pow
erty-stricken mother, who lives in q
bare three-room flat in the tenement
house at 953 Park avenue. She doesn't
know where she is going to get the $12
to pay her mex months rent.
Foye is the man who yesterday hauled
the woman he called mother when he
was a child before Magistrate Wahle
on the charge that she threatened to
Shoot him because he refused to give
her money.
"She did threaten to shoot me-" re-
tterated the son When seen today in his
private office in the luxurioysly fitted
up rooms Of Charles Gates & Co., at
the Waldorf. II am afraid of the wom-
an and she is capable of shooting me
or any one else. 1 tried to tell the mag
istrate yesterday that l wanted her
committed but he refused to listen to
me.
Denounces Mother as Fool.
eff he and the public knew all the
circumstances of the case they would
take a different view Of :he matter. I
know it sounds bad for a son to be talk
ing about his mother as I am but you
don't know her. She's a FOOL
Foye shook his fist as he said this.
I'll never pay that woman 1 cent
he continued, emphatically. She never
has been a mother to me. She never
gave me a mothers love. She never
cared whether I lived or died. She left
my father when I was Is, and since
then have had to shift for myself.
Ten years ago she got a separation
from my father with alimony of $50 a
month. That didn't satisfy her. She
| Y nntc6 SEQ q month SIn ~,,l1 It,.
until he died, a yea ago. Since then
she has been bounding me.
Claim She Drove Father to Death.
For six years before he died my
father was an invalid as a result Of
chronic locomotor ataXia. l had to
support him. He naturally could not
earn money to pay alimony himself. I
was not earning any more than enough
to support us both.
But she kept on bounding us and
sent my poor father to the Ludlow
street Jail for three months because he
could not pay. That three months in
Jail aggravated his disease, which later
developed into paTesis, of which he
died.
"Since then that woman followed me
from place to place demanding money
Of me and telling me what she would
do If she didn't get it. I p now
she Will come here and threaten me
again. If she does, I'll have her ar
rested once more.
Ill? In Want? Doesn't Care.
1.-THE woman is nothing, absolutely
nothing, to me. I don't careei if 1 lose my
job as a result Of this trouble. 1 have
shifted for myself since l was Is years
old n I guess 1 can shift a while Ion
ger"
Your mother is i'll n in want. Are
you going to help her?" asked a re-
porter.
II don't care what happens to my
mother,' replied Foye angrily. "she
ought to be put in a hospital or an
asylum if she can't work."
B u you We're born of her?"
Yes, unfortunately, I was. But that
wasn't my fault. l tell you, I'm sick
and tired Of being annoyed by her"
Say She Is Good.
In contrast to this unpleasant pic
ture Of Mrs. Foye, as painted by her
son, Numerically opposite is the one
sketched by her neighbors. There is
not one Of her fellow tenants who has
not the kindest things to say about
the woman. They desribe her as a
quiet, kindly faced old m who
minded her own business, but who had
a pleasant and ~neighborly smile fol-
everybody.
Shoot any one?" said John schneid-
er, her landlord, today. why thai
woman would not kill a mouse. She is
the most tender hearted old lady 1 ever
saw. She never had a revolver in hel
hand in her life. She's Sc timid she's
afraid of her own shadow
The rejected woman said today:
"When l came to America l possessed
a fortune Of $4,000. At the Crane
Union hotel I met n later married
James Foye. He squandered all my
money. | have paWned my last keep
sake Il have nothing left