The Washington herald., 1907-08-17

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sergt. Arthur 5. Lee. who says he is a
fourth or fifth cousin Of ex-senator Henry
/ Gassaway Davis. is the most persistently
purgued-by-fa fate young cook IN New
York. Hardly a week passes that Lee
is not sandbagged, stabbed, or shot at,
and occasionally he varies the monotOny
/ by nearly drowning. And yet, 70 look at
/ him, you wouldn't think he had so many
| adventurous possibilities in his system.
! Lieut.. Ice came into public print again
/ Wednesday. when he was twice arraigned
/ in Yorkyille Court, before Magistrate
/ Crane. The complainant both times was
young woman named Helen Kane, who
/ said she was a Mrs, although Kane
insists she is single.
4 ought 10 know. I've been keeping
company with her Tor four years he
added.
! The young woman charged that Lee
/ had annoyed her by repeatedly calling
! her up at her place Of employment, n
1 the Office Of John T. Stanley. 642 West
| Thirtieth street. and that he had capped
the climax by threatening her with a
revolver at his home. which was then IN
/ West TWenty-siKth street
Not Soldier, but Cook.
Magistrate Crane hardly had dismissed
the charge when the fair complainant
brought another charge-that Lee was
/ deserter from the regular army at Fort
/ Leavenworth. Policeman LAWYER escorted
/ Capt. Lee TO the Army Building from
which he was switched TO Governors ISL
and. After a short detention he was re-
leased by the officers. who certified that
as Ear as they knew he never was a sol
I der, but a cook, as he insisted
| To-day the adventUrer appeared in an
/ evening newspaper office, weighed down
with clippings concerning his exciting
I past With becoming modesty Maj. Lee
/ filed in the spaces which had not been
printed.
These two charges against me yester-
/ day are all part Of the plot OF certain
parties to separate Miss Kane and me-"
/ he said They found out quick enough
I that I wasn't deserter. The only pow
/ der I ever smelled was baking powder
/ Yes and face powder"
/ Lieut. Col Lee is quite the lady's man,
| as this remark discloses. and IN his
/ kitchen-soldier career has won many
hearts and succumbed 10 many soft
! smiles. IT'S this which brings him into
so many perils.
Only Twenty-Five, and Yet
/ To-day he told his fateful history. as fol-
lows
I am twenty-five years old. and came
from Savannah. Ca. don't know what
my relation 10 Senator Davis is. I an
I relation se--oraT +Fv,.- -,--,r-.5 +r,..-t-
never went around 10 be removed. Four
/ years ago. in New York, I met Helen
I Kane, and fell in love with her. We kept
/ company, and I was al right IN her es-
timatiOn until this other man became my
rival. / know he IS a desperate man, for
sne received letter from him while I was
out Of town. saying he had killed a man
/ in a gambling house in Frisco. The time
I was the same as when my life was at
tempted out there.
Anyway, I went away from here and
was year in the West. The first time
they tried 10 plant me was IN MCClOud.
/ Cal, little lumber camp. where ] was
/ cooking. This lnan came for me with a
carving knife. and tried 10 do me. 7
drew q gun and fired at him, ard he
/ faded into the redwOOds. That was IN
September, 1906
L had a comparatively dull life until
either the end Of November or the first
! Of December last year, when I was sand
/ bagged in Weeds. Cal, a camp Of about
a hundred population. Whoever did the
job-and I feel positive it was this same
I fellOw-robbed me. but 1 only had q few
dollars on me.
Woman 20 the Rescue.
In March OF this wear I met two fei-
lows in Sacramento. They fell across my
way and worked up an acquaintance. sug-
costing we go camping together. was
! knocking about foCt-loose. and agreed 10
60 along. After we had been camping
three weeks-and / suspect that all that
time they were trying TO put me out OF
the way-I started out fishing toward
/ Frisco on the night Of March 26.
zone Of the fellows was IN the boat
with me, AID I must have been drugged
or something. for the last I can remember
he was rocking the boat, trying 70 tip me
out. He must have succeeded all right.
for I went overheard and would have
drowned if I hadn't been thrown I'D on
Golden Gate Beach. A woman named Mrs.
Cram, who was camping on the beach IN
a tent. dragged me out OF the water and
nursed me back 70 life.
Now, you might have thought that
was an accident if this fellow VINO was
with ne last hadn't notified the San Fran
cisco papers that I had committed sui
eide, and also sent a letter signed with
my name 10 a soldier acquaintance named
Burns, telling him was going 10 commit
suicide.
She Is Not Like Arthur.
II laid low until I was well, and then
went 10 San Francisco. I was walking
down KeaTney street on the night OF
April 5, when this rival Of mine took
a shot at ne. There was a lot in the
Frisco papers about It at the time. but
I lost the clippings If you telegraph
out there you will find out all about It,"
Unfortunately, the wires weren't work
ing very cOpiOusly at the moment. and
no message went to the Golden Gate.
There was an expectant pause as the
reporter who had been eating It up looked
at Col. Lee for more The human target
seemed mortified at the few escapes. and
said:
The next one was when they gave me
knockout drops on the 10Th"
Cant you remember any more at
tempts on your life2''
We'll, there were a few which I have
my suspicious Of. but you could hardly
be sure about them. That's about all Of
the real ones
Gen. Lee rose to his full six feet two.
and after posing for his photograph,
withdrew. Tightening up his steel shirt
and looking for a place where they sell
cast-iron hats. before his next hair
breadth escape.
When the young woman in the case
was told about his charge. and was asked
II It was true, she replied;
Il am not talking for publication"
Which can't be said Of Arthur