The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-08
PEACE REIGNS IN
THE YERKES MANSION
BRIDE AND HER YOUNG HUSBAND
SAID TO HAVE CELEBRATED RE-
CANCELLATION wITHA BANQUET

NEW YORK, February 26.-The
Journal announces the complete recon-
cilation of Wilson Miner and his
bride formerly the widow of Charles
r. Yerkes. According to the Journal,
Mrs. Yerkes- Miner gave a dinner to-
night at the Hotel Netherland during
which she looked lovingly into the big
blue eyes of her athletic yolng hus-
band.
1T was all a conspiracy to separate
us, but it failed" Mrs. Yerkes- Miner
said in an interview. They told me
all sorts of dreadful things about will
SON." she added, land fool.shly cred
tied them until l started an investiga-
tion and found they were all false. We
never were separated. We had lit
tie quarrel it is true, but l love him
and have found out he is not so black
as he has been painted. He was al
ways good to me. The stories that he
abused me and we quarreled over
money matters are absolutely untrue
He never asked me for a cent, either
before or after our marriage, and gave
/ me only what 1 have found to be the
/ best of advice in regard to financial
affairs All / have is his if he wishes,
| for l know that but for him l might be
put i'm a position where the very roof
could have been sold over my head"
From a 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 plot involving millions Mrs.
| Yerkes Miner believed her husband,
! Wilson Miner, saved her from great
loss by his advice.
| She is reported to have said: Il
have not had much experience in the
ways of the world, and l believed it
would be better for me to do as 1 was
told and withdraw as trustee in order
to save myself all the trouble and work
that the office would bring upon me. 1
was told that it meant only signing
away l per cent. That conveyed no
meaning to me and it was only when I
asked the advice of my husband l
learned that it meant a sum Of at least
$4,000 year. providing the estate was
worth only $4,000, 900 and not $50. OOO .
600, as I believe.
Then l consulted one of the best
lawyers in New York. On his advice
l hastily revoked my decision to with
draw. l was only just in time. Two
days more and l should have been out
l have had terrible experiences. Three
persons i'm Chicago, one here and one
in Philadelphia have been nagging me
and trying to persuade me to go out
but luckily I withstood them all. ]
must, however, thank Wilson that ]
escaped.
"At first l doubted him. l kept re.
ceiving such awful reports about his
past career that I was almost frantic
started an investigation of my Nvr
and found the stories had been vastly
exaggerated"
Mrs. Yerkes-M Miner declares the
known value of the estate is increas.
ing daily because of discoveries of val.
liable property hidden away by Yerkes
Why we are finding more money
belonging to the estate every day. III
is reported she said, For example, on.
ly yesterday l discovered some keys tC
safe deposit vaults that had been hid.
den away by Yerkes that l am sure
will add millions to the value of the
estate. Already we have found clews
to large sums in England, and good.
ness knows how much more we shall
find before we are through"