The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26
THOUGHT MR.. DEYOEDDYSMIT
WOHAN EXPLAINS WY SIZE FOL-
LOWED (LERGT Wan IROt Nd.
Married Twice since She Was Engaged
20 Eddy, but Nevertheless Wrote
nusheI Of i.CNc Letters TO Man VINO
Look ed Like EddJ i.rt 60 on Parole.

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The Rev. George \. Deyo. curate Of 81.
Augustine's Chapel ON East Houston street.
went to the Yorkville police court yester-
day with his vicar, the Rev DR.. kimber,
10 prosecute the complaint he had made
against Mrs Helen Monohan Of following
him ON the streets and writing letters to
him Mrs, Monohan's mother, Nlrs. Robert
Smith, who lives at 3oi Fast Thirty-fourth
street was in court with another daughter.
Before she was ar1-aigncd. Mrs. Monohan
told a story of a twenty -year-od romance.
She said that she sang in the choir Of Cal
vary Chapel from the time she was eleven
years old When she was sixteen she fell
In love with Edward I. Smith. son Of a
janitor. In 1855 he was arrested on a
charge of stealing letters and was sent to
Elmira. 4 few years later she married
Charles Tanning, but he died about a year
afterward In 1889 she married Patrick
j. Monohan, who was a cork collector, to
whom she bore two children.
Five years ago. while she was playing
ut the organ in Calvary Chapel, she saw
! Mr.. Deyo and took him for Smith, her
hance of the long ago. Then began her
/ pursuit of the curate of st. Augustine's
duI HiAri VI ithN'A VI ANAAAH' A'it
refused TO believe that Mr. Deyo was not
Eddy Smith. Her conduct caused her
husband 10 leave her, taking their children.
Dr. Klmber said that he was satisfied
that it was case of mistaken identity.
He had looked up the whole matter
When the prisoner was arraigned Ma gis-
trate Moss asked Mr.. Deyo if he was ac-
quainted with her.
1.
said the clergyman. Il first met her at
her home when she and her husband lived
come where about Fast 1hirtieth street
Her husband was member OF our church.
Mrs. Monohan has persistently followed
me on the streets and at times would come
up TO me and say that ] could not get away
from her and that l seemed TO be afraid
OF woman. She has written many letters
TO me and in some of them declared that
] was her hus band.
Have you any of those letters here?'
asked the Magistrate.
The clergyman produced a tin box about
two feet long and a foot wide, II was
completely full OF letters in many tinted
"Phe-ew Did she write all those?- in
quired the Court How many are there
Several hundred His Honor picked
MP one epistle at rohdlm ana BEGAN 70
read it.
Dearest -" he read aloud and then
dropped IT,
She came to the church evenings to at
tend the Bible class, resumed the clergy
man. but she came on the evenings de-
voted TO the meu told her TO desist and
come on the evenings set apart for the
women. Then she began TO write to me.
She wrote tina ! re=emblcd the man who
was engaged to be married to her some
years ngo. | asked her in her mothers
presence 10 cease writing TO me.
In some Of your letters to Dr. Deyo
you wrote that he resembled your intended
husband the Magistrate said 10 Mrs.
Monohnn.
Yes, when I saw the Pew. Mr. Deyo
was struck by the resemblance, SHE re-
piled.
But you have husband;' remarked
the Magistrate.
-Yes. that is different man. am
separated from him now
The Magistrate told Mrs. Monohan that
he WINS going 10 parole her but that if she
wrote to the clergyman again or followed
him on the streets she would be sent 10 the
worthouse for six months Then ne sent
her homo with her mother.