Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-06
GIRL SC0RNS
FAY'S LOVE
BECAUSE MYRTLE GREEN WILL
NOT MARRY HIM, WILLIAM FAY
CHARGES HER With LEWDNEss
v. S, jackson Arraisned on Same
Charge - Nora Thomas Files a
"comeback" Charge Against Fay
Case Is Sequel to Earlier Trouble
Savage is Discharged.

From Thursdays Daily.
The cases of the State against U. 8:
Jackson and Myrtle Green, charged
with lewdness; Nora Thomas for keep
ing a house of Ill fame and William
Fay for threatening to commit a pub
lie offense, one Of which is being tried
this afternoon in Justice G. G. Ayres'
court, represent serious domestic
tangle. The story which is behind the
cases adds further proof that the
course of true love, or any other kind
of love, seldom runs smoothly. The
facts leading up to the present status
of affairs, wound together, make an
unusual story.
MyrtIe's Heartlessness.
The four principals in the affair
first came into prominence early in
the winter, when. it is claimed by
neighbors of the parties, that Fay at
| tempted to commit suicide because
Myrtle would not marry him. Mrs.
Thomas, who is the mother of Myrtle
Green. lives on South Webster street.
Myrtle lives with her mother and Fay
resided in a woodshed in the rear OF
the lot. which he rented from Mrs.
! Thomas.
At the time the suicide story came
! out, the case was investigated and II
was found, that while Fay had threat
ened to kill himself, he had really TAX
en- no such desperate steps. local
physician examined the man and MS
that although bottle of carbolic acid
had been purchased and scattered
around the room. that Fay had not
taken any of the poison. Fay then
claimed that the story was circulated
by Mrs. Thomas and her daughter be-
cause they wanted him to get off the
place He claimed further that he had
paid good rent for his abode and had
a perfect right to stay there, and that
ed him to leave was because he, In a
way interfered with the attention
which was being paid the young lady
by U. S. Jackson.
Myrtle Green, at the time, stated
that she had no intention Of marrying
Fay, although he had asked her to
time and time again. Stories were
rife in the neighporhood that Myrtle
had been keeping house for Fay. but
both Fay and Myrtle denied this re-
port. Later Myrtle admitted that she
sometimes went to Fay's shack to
clean 1t up for him when he was away
and that she also occasionally prepared
Charges Are Filed.
The charges now filed against Nora
i Thomas, Myrtle Green and Jackson
are sequel to the old story. 1t seems
i that Fay had been living in his shack
since the first disturbance and had re-
i newed his attentions to Myrtle. Still
she spurns his love, and Fay has filed
the charges as a last resort.
!, Mrs. Thomas, Myrtle Green. who by
the way is said to be married, and
/ Jackson Were arrested yesterday after
moon and arraigned before Justice
!. Ayres on the above charges. AS, soor
as Mrs Thomas became acquainted
4 with the way the matter stood she inn
!, mediately made charges against Fay
claiming that he had threatened ;c
: shoot Myrtle if she didn't marry him
n She claimed further that Fay haG
) threatened to get some dynamite ant
) blow the house and everything in il
. to hell
:, Jackson and Myrtle are being tried
this afternoon and the. other two cases
will follow later. Tho case is being
holly contested by Lloyd L Duke, at.
torney for the defense, and E. r
| Mitchell, representing the state
: Savage is Discharged.
N. Savage, who was tried severa
days ago before Justice G. B. Melicl
: on the charge of assault with intent X
! kill. has been discharged. The prose
cutting witness in the case was Jess,
: Hulk.
The News From Hiteman.