The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-27
YERKES.MIlNER
DOVES AGAIN COO
Plot! Conspiracy! Hidden Mil
lions! 81 Love Wilson,
Says Widow-Bride.
Journal Specia! Service.

New York, Feb. 27.--9tIt was con.
spiracy to separate us, but it failed,
said Mrs. Yerkes- Miner last night in
the Hotel Netherland, as she sat look
ing lovingly into big blue eyes of her
athletic young husband at a little din
ner she gave in that hotel, wherein she
had dwelt in the most magnificent suite
for several years with her first husband,
Charles T. Yerkes.
s'They told me all sorts Of dreadful
things about Wilson, she added, and
foolishly credited them until / start
ed an investigation and found they
were all false.
''Please do not say we are reunited,
because we were never separated. we
and I have found out that he is not so
black as he has been painted.
Always Good to Her.
ssDon't let any more of those I'M
kind things be said about him. she
pleaded. HHe was always good to me.
The stories that he abused me and that
we quarreled over money matters are
absolutely untrue. He never asked me
| marriage, and gave me only what L
have found to be the best advice in
regard to financial affairs. All I have
is his if he wishes, for I now know
that but for him I might have been
put in a position where the very roof
could have been sold over my head. -
| With that Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner left
the hotel with her husband ana was
driven back in her own automobile to
her Fifth avenue home, her face beam
ing and looking in every way as charm
ing as the most youthful bride.
Millions! Hidden Millions!
From friend who was present at
the dinner it was learned later that
Mrs. Yerkes- Miner had discovered, in
the scheme to separate her from her
husband a plot involving more millions
than any ever related in the Weirdest
| romance.
"Why, we are finding more. money
belonging to the estate every day. 1t
is reported she said. ''For example,
only yesterday I discovered some keys
to safe-deposit vaults that had been
hidden away by Mr.. Yerkes, that, am
sure will add millions to the value of
the estate. Mr.. Yerkes was a great
things in all sorts Of odd corners, Al
ready we have found clues to large
sums in England, and goodness knows
how much more we shall find before we
are thru. 49,
cit was lucky that, thru the advice
Of Mr.. Miner, [ consulted dlslnter-
ested lawyer before l. finally decided to
withdraw as trustee and executrlx OF
Mr. Yerkes' will. I had no idea what
it meant when I listened to the advice
of persons.
Almost Lost Good Money
"Since then I have learned that such
action on my part would have put me
in a position where almost anything
I should have been powerless to inter
vene.
81 have not had much experience in
the ways Of the world, and believed ii
would be better for me to do as I was
told and withdraw as trustee in order
to save myself all the trouble and work
that office would bring upon me-.
was told that it meant only the signing
away Of 1 per cent. That conveyed nc
asked the advice of my husband that
learned it meant sum Of at least $75,
900 a year, providing the estate was
| worth only $40 900, 900 and not $50,
100000 as I believe. -~~-r 90.
Nagging Her, Nagging Her. ~
"Then I consulted one of the best
lawyers in New York who used to ac1
for Mr.. Yerkes. On his advice I hastily
!
was only just in time. Two days more
and I should have been out.
81 have had a terrible experience
Three persons in Chicago, one here ant
one in Philadelphia have been naggins
me and trying to persuade me to ge
> out, but luckily withstood them all
4 l must, however, thank Wilson that
9 escaped. :. 80.
cat first I doubted him.. I kept re
ceiving such awful reports about hi
past career that I was almost frantic
One would tell me one thing and an
other, another. I didn t know what t.
do. Every person seemed so disinte1
ested and so anxious to be my frien
e that I grew suspicious. I started an in
vestigation Of my own and found tina
= the stories had been vastly exaggel
ated.'' -
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