The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-15
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lawyer, SHE SAYS
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considered myself as slave.
"I never knew or heard OF Law !;
lcr Rawley until was met on the
street by an unknown party, who
LANDED me one Of Lawyer Rawley's
+ cards and requested me to meet
him at his office. Vi
Three days after I received q
phone message from Mr.. Rawley
himself, and went to his office in
company with Officer NJ. y. Moore,
who was friond OF the family 8
was then living with.
Neither Mr.. Moore nor myself
knew what. lawyer Rawley wanted.
and stated to him that I had been
family. and intimated that 1 would
do well to institute suit for dam
ages against the family through
him. When Mr. Moore asked him
y refused to .divulge any name. i
Both Mr.. Moore and I then
plainly said that we desired no
legal steps taken. wanted the whole
matter dropped and wished to avoid
oil publicity. We then left the Il
we get Mrs. j. T. Martin. with
whom I am now living, to visit him
the next day. THIS Mrs. Martin.
did, together with 6sr husband and
Officer Moore. 81 e
Might Effect ec,promise:
Several dayssl( ~ Lawyer Raw
Manchester. desiring me again to
visit his office. Mrs. Martin ac-4
companied mo on this OCCASION y
when we arrived Mr.. Rawley
once more took up the same sub
ably prevail on him to pay me a b
certain amount of money, by way
of compromise, in which case it
would be unnecessary to sue. He s
asked asks Mrz Martin to g,ye her
replied:nI have no consent to give.
and want to have nothing to do
with the case We then left, and
have not seen him since.
ticles so far written, and purport-
Ing to have emanated from me, I L
desire to state that they are abso-
lutely without foundation in fact.
4 were fabricated, and are utterly
Want. to Live In Peace.
Tho young woman added that he
friends, to-day SO solicltous for he
could serve her now-best wit
silence. It was she who had libernte
Is now perfectly comfortable. and de
sires to be allowed to remain So
Her statement. made In the presenc
II both Officer Moore and Mrs. Martir
was substantinted by each of then
herself was In no way responsible or
party to the publicity growing out q
the ca ~. and that she had been lhersel
falsely quoted in the papers. Hler atti
Eude: said she. was. and had been. til
<S,1~ J,1%t v% = lny
woman, whom she had desired lind en-
leavored to befriend.
i officer Moore condemned what Il
termed IAN exaggerated and dlstorte
account of n ncighborhood row, In tn
country" and deplored that tho animu
recoil on the head of an innocent an
lefenseless girl. @
The statement OF Elennora. obtainedi
to the earlier statement o
any further reference OF. 1t to the at
Her nlrtl, ana Childhood Il.
John Pnlmore, who has in his pos
session the facts concerning the brit
and childhood OF Eleanora. Il, a, Coz,
TO Times Dispatch correspondent
last night he said he will tell Eleanor'
tonight that her mother, Lizzie Nicer
Ing and her grandmo ther came game fron
with him, and in his Eouse the CIR
was horn. Eleanora lived with hlr
until she was four years old when sh,
and her mother went to the roorhouse
tnnate woman died. Palmore then tool
tho girl out of the poorhnuse, and. car
rylnE her back to his home, gave he
the fathers care which she had lacked
sending her to school and to Sunda.
school,, At the age OF thirteen sil
went to the home OF Mr. John Woodfir
and there remained for time. fnall,
to the Palmore home. Eigh
years ago a home was offered To ne
1t the Cawleys, and there she lived an
labored until her coming into tina Mar
lin family, In Manchester. where sh
wishes now to stay In peace. Il