The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-10-05
OF COURSE EVE DID IT.

Some salacious scalawag, who for
excellent reasons is ashamed of his
own name. writes letter to revile
The Oregonian for trying to hood
wink the people in order to clear the
skirts of an accused official" He re-
fers of course. to the Waymire scan
DIAL. We gather that he is one of the
deplorable gang of degenerates whom
Judge Cameron ordered out of the
courtroom just at the moment when
the case became most interesting to
their CarriOn taste. for he is almost
as rancorous against the court as
against The Oregonian.
When a case like theWaymire scan
dial arises there is always a group Of
Individuals who fairly Wallow in its
filth Being themselves utterly vile,
they assume tina. the man who has
been victimized by the blackmailers is
as guilty as possible in the circum-
stances: and whatever the character
III tiIt NbitltI may rt' II 9IIlo tilNii
purpose. of course, to set her forth as
an immaculate angel. Fortunately,
this class of men is small. If there
We're many of them spouting their
views upon the street and writing
anonymous letters to the papers, il
would be impossible to exist for nau
sea.
a man who is attacked by a woman
is practically almost helpless against
his aSSailant. The better his previous
reputation has been the more difficult
in his defense, so prone are we all to
cry 'hypOcrite." If the case comes be-
fore a jury, the woman, with her
Delilah wiles. has every advantage.
Schooled by her lawyers. she smiles,
she weeps, she sighs she trades upon
her charms. and the jurymen are as
wax before her. God pity the man
who has to deferd his reputation
against one of these women, says the
Oregonian.
Slush! 1t is really too bad that a
man should be attacked by a woman
in this manner. The testimony of
every witness in the case is to the eff
fee khat Mayor DR.. Harry Lanes Of
flee door was locked and the blinds
pulled down while Mrs. Waymlre was
visiting him for the purpose or COM
hitting that terrible attack" In au-
dition she had been visiting the doc
tor for several weeks and he had be-
come sufficiently acquainted with her
to have known better than to have
given her 50 many excellent opport--
mites to make such vicious attacks
OF course a physician and the chief
executive of a little town like Port
land could not be expected to know
any better However, assaults by
women upon men are so scarce that
this particular one is worthy of notice
After Handsome Harry had called
pretty little Mrs. Waymire all those
nice names and had given her his con-
fidence it was a shame ard breach
of confidence for her to attack him in
the way she did especially when the
door was locked and he could not get
away. How fortunate it was for inno-
cent Harry that those men broke in
the door and saved him from the ter
rible fate which awaited him.
Certainly the big newspapers of the
Rose city should stand by the mayer
and condemn the woman who has
told a straight story from start to
finish. Even the sweating and all other
secret and effective methods known to
detectives and police, and the most
searching eross-examination by able
prosecutors and private attorneys, have
failed to shake the testimony of the
woman. If she is not telling the truth
she is far more shrewd than all those
men who have had years of training
and experience and who have all kinds