The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-20
Essex FelIS Resident Claims
Pretty Widow Is an
& Adventures.
''HE LOVED me-" SHE SAYS
Mrs. Cameron, of New York, AL.
legeS She Loaned Vim. B. Nc.
Niece, a Married Man. Va.
rieus Sums--SueS to Re-.
cover SLIGO Loan.

moved there a few days ago from Ar
lington avenue, Caldwell, was made the
defendant today in a suit brought in
the New York Supreme Court by Mrs.
Edna C Cameron, a pretty New York
widow, to recover $1,100 which she
claims Mr.. McNiece borrowed, after
making love to her. Mr.. McNiece de-
mics her allegations. stating that it is
a case of attempted blackmail, and
that the widow is simply making trou-
BILE for him by dragging his name in
the mud.
According to Mrs. Cameron, who
lives at the Hotel Rialto, 149 West
Forty-fourth street, New York, and
claims to come from a prominent Geor-
gia family, she met Mr.. McNiece last
October at the Manhattan restaurant,
New York. being introduced by Rob-
ern Douglass Buchanan, half brother
of Mrs. K. G. Dun. widow of the COM
mercial agency man. She and Mr..
Buchanan, according to her story,
were very intimate. She continues her
side of the story as follows:
NJ McNiece at once paid marked at
tention to me. He subsequently told me
that he represented Robert ID. Buchanan,
VINO ueSlTtu 10 We ItiedHtu ITDIl MS pTOIl-
\ Use to marry me. He said that Mr.. Blu
cha9an mentioned making suitable pro-
visions for ne.
II was heartbroken and at first refused
to hear of any financial arrangement.
But McNiece became so l~nsistent that at
length I permitted Buchanan to go and
j entered into negotiations with him look
ing toward a financial settlement. | had
nothing but what Mr.. Buchanan was Civ
ing me to live upon, my own funds having
been swept away by bad investments.
About this time Mr.. McNiece told me
that he loved me, and induced me to take
up my home in various hotels, where he
paid my expenses. At first he was liberal,
letting me understand that he was wealthy.
Finally he came to me and told me that
he had 50, 400 for me, all the money, he
said, which was coming to me after he
had deducted his own fee of $500. l
asked him If it was customary for law
yers to exact a fee from both sides, and
he said it was. He declared that all the
money he got from Buchanan was $4,000
IL was ignorant. needed money, and &C
cepted the sum. I later learned that Mrs.
Dun gave $4,000 to settle the matter, 1t
being represented to her that I would
otherwise bring about a scandal. There
Was never any chance Of my making a
scandal of the affair, for I regarded Mr..
Buchanan highly, and he had never done
anything mean to me save when he tired
Of me.
'Mr. McNiece. about January last. came
to me and told me that he had temporary
need for $3.50. I drew the sum out of the
bank and gave 1t to him on January q
at 103 West Forty-seventh street.
Again. on March 30, McNiece said he
was in trouble and borrowed $3.50 from me
In the Hamilton Hotel. I thought the man
was only temporarily embarrassed and had
no hesitation in letting him have the
money. Or June 4 last McNiece came to
me and got me to loan him $500 more
I did not have that much money, but went
to my safe deposit box, got all I had and
raised the balance on some of my Jewels.
I gave him the money at 24 West Forty
sixth street.
Immediately that he had stripped me
OF every dollar, leaving me not enough
to pay my board bill. McNiece left me. I
called him up on the phone and requested
him to pay back the SLIGO he had bor-
rowed. but he pleaded that he could not
spare It. I asked him TO pay Il back to
me In the sums he had borrowed It. He
reviled me and told me that Il / gave him
any trouble he would put me In jail. as
he had powerful friends in the detective
department
IT had to leave the place I wal stopping
in and take rooms in the Aldine Hotel,
431 Fourth avenue. There I called up Mo
Niece IN his office and asked him over the
telephone to settle with me. He replied
with a string of abuse and threats. i
then told him that I would bring suit for
the recovery of the money. He replied
that he would send me to the Island.
This was on July 7 or 8, and the next
day there came a ring at the door OF my
apartment. Now. under the rules of the
hotel. no visitor may ring the bell, but
must first be announced over the phone
or by a page. I supposed that a page or
bellboy had rung. and opened the door. I
was en- dishabille at the time and had
been lying down.
men pushed IT open violently and came
into NV apartment. I was dumbfounded
and rang the call bell, intending to de-
n,end the reason for the intrusion. But
one of the men stepped forward and
roughly said: we are Central ONCE de-
t~ectives. We have a warrant for your
arrest
"At first I was terrified. / remembered
the stories I had read Of robberies by men
who pretended to be detectives, and tried
to get to the telephone, but the men
stopped me. Again the man with the black
mnstache said: You had best be quiet.
fell YOU we have a warrant for your ar
rest
II knew l had done nothing to subject
me to arrest. and faced the men. l said;
If you have a warrant for me serve 1t ana
take me before a magistrate. what docs
your warrant charger
Then the spokesman said: You are
trying to blackmail Mr.. McNiece. and you
have got 10 stop it or you will go to the
Island
II broke down and wept. I said that
such an arrest would disgrace Mr..
Buchanan, Mr.. McNieee and myself, and
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