The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-15
f|NAnCIERS IN HER POWER
So Asserts Husband Of Ella RaWIs
Reader
Remarkable Letter READ At TRIAL
SAYS SIR THOMAS Upton AND
SENATOR CLARK SOUGHT
HER HAND.
REMARKABLE LETTER READ At TRIAL

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Athole B.
Reader, husband of Ella Rawls Reader,
who gained some prominence for her
self by asserting that she was the fis-
cal agent of the republic of Santo Do
mingo when President Roosevelt was
trying to make a new treaty with that
country and bring about it's payment
OF it's debts. was arrested by United
States Marshal Henkel on an indict-
ment for perjury handed down on
Jan. 7. by the federal grand jury.
The Indictment is the outcome of
the trial of suit brought by Reader
against James B. Haggin for $25O,OO0
commissions. This case is made inter-
esting by some of Readers letters,
especially one in praise of his wife
which came out in the proceedings.
One of these letters is regarded as
the most remarkable document of its
kind that ever was offered as evidence
in a court room. 1t reads:
Upton Was Suitor.
My very dear Querido Juan: In the
first place, Juan. my marriage.
This is the very best work, Juan,
old man. l have ever done. When you
meet my sonora, as you will do one OF
these days. Juan, you will find her the
cleverest woman you ever struck, and
always a woman. She is acknOwl
edged to be the cleverest and most
successful business woman in New
York She is drawing salary OF
$1,000 month up to February, from an
engineering firm, for getting certain
concessions for the underground rail
road in London. She knows everything
and everybody in Wall street, and hel
great personal friends and hackers are
the principal bankers in New York
She is southern girl and lady, ant
is just what she should be.
Sir Thomas Upton, John Dewar, M
P. and a dozen other rich and proml
nent men in England have asked he
to marry them, and she practically hat
agreed to marry Dewar, the whisk!
Millionaire of Scotland, and membe
of parliament, when she met me. AM
she wired him. asking him to releas'
her before she married me secretly OF
Nov. 9. just before l left for England
She knows the best and richest PEG
pie in London, Scotland, ireland AM
all over America Has had offers o
marriage from a German prince, al
Indian prince and Senator Clark, tn
richest copper man in Montana
bankers. brokers and milliOnaires
Wall street.
Had Vast Interests.
She owns the largest typewrltln
establishment in New York and ma
made as much as $4,000 year out o
it. She is a partner OF the cleVeres
electric inventor in America, r.
Sprague, and has 26 per cent IN IN
Snrague Electric Multiple Unit; ais
owns the rights in new brake Whlcl
will he the brake of the future, 10 D
fitted to all cars, railways, ETC., an
she is now proposing to form an Angl
American Finance company, conSls
ing of the strongest men IN Amerlc
and England, including such men a
Dumont Clark, president OF tn
American Exchange National banK
William Scherer, head of the Ne'
York clearing house; E. X. Chapman
banker and broker, worth $S,OOO,Oo'
Sir William ArrOll. Scottish mliiioi
aire. Sir Thomas Upton, John DeWal
Sir Christopher Furness, werner
Werner Bert & Co., and others
Scotland.
She knows every judge in New Iorf
has command of the press IN Ne'
York and London. She has conce'
sion of land in the Straits settlemeh
from the sultan of Johore, etc., GU
sbe has successfully lobbied the nous
of commons, and has scheme IN nc
be.d for the amalgamatiOn OF all III
underground railways in London an
p.r;s in connection with the hnancis
comnany She knows everybody
England and America. she says Oh
is going to make me millionaire an
the prime minister of England, AM
man I believe she can almost 90 IT,
This may all sound too oig' 'ua'
old man but she is looked upon
the cleyerest and most succe's,'
men in England and America as ~
c,averest woman in the world, anu
roollv think she is.