The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-21
SPECIMEN BATCH
OF DISGUSTING
YELLOW
Graves epson Story in the
Sunday American
is LURID PAGE OF LYING
Imaginary Details Supplied to List OF
Events That Never Took
Place.

Bennington people who read the
New York American on Sunday got a
good idea of what this kind of Sunday
papers are made of In reading the
illustrated page of trash relative to
the marriage of Irene Graves and
Forrest Jepson and their subsequent
separation.
Aside from the fact OF their going
to White Creek In an auto to get mar
ried and that she has since applied
for a divorce there Is probably not a
particle of truth in the whole page OF
tommyrot and cheap slosh.
The history of the case is well
known to most Bennington people A
| spoiled self.willed boy. lacking In
moral restraint and not over-blessed
with brains, induced an immature sen
| timental girl. unschooled In the ways
of the world to marry him without
either of them considering the serious
nature of the step they were taking.
Any person of experience or mature
| age could have foretold the result
They did not live happily together.
| Young Jepson was in no position to
| support wife and his bride was un-
fitted by health, strength and expert
ence to endure the struggle which a
union of that kind entails. They soon
separated. His wife has asked the
courts for divorce and Jepson in the
dime novel, braggadociO style for
which he has always been notorious
sued his wife's father, Fred o.
Graves, for alleged alienation of her
| affections.
The article in the Sunday Ameri
can painted lurid and absurdly un.
| true picture of the commonplace
tragedy of the unfortunate affair
| Fred Graves is referred ID as the ex
president OF the First National bank
with more money than he knows what
to do with. 1t states that Forrest
and Irene eloped in Mr.. Graves auto
mobile. II pictures Forrest as young
hero who has saved many lives and
| tells how he kidnapped his wife from
her fathers home after they were
| married and when she was alleged to
| be restrained by force from going to
| him. 1t gives the detail of how he Is
| Alleged to have been arrested on a
| false charge and other lies and details
| chat never happened
| The article was illustrated by pic.
| lures of Irene. Forrest and the back
side of Mr.. Graves house. These were
from photographs which must have
been furnished by Forrest or some
other person. There were also sew,
eral drawings of events that never oc.
Cured and as Enthusiastically false as the
| article itself.
The strange thing about 1t is that
people will continue to read the Amer.
lean and Journal. No person of sober
sense can fail to understand that this
is merely sample of what the paper
is filed with, Some of the articles
have little truth but only little and
that so covered up with fabrication
and substantial lying that the truth is
lost sight OF.
The American and the Journal
| which is the afternoon issue of the
same paper, are fitted only for circula
ton in disorderly resorts, gambling
houses and the lowest class OF saloons
There is where they circulate mostly
in the cities. Respectable people any,
where ought to be ashamed to have
one In their possession