The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-14
C0RD0VA, FREED
EXPECTS BOVINE
GIRL TO JOIN HIM

heard from him. Cordova had a mys-
FERROUS visitor late yesterday, and one
of the keepers declared this visitor
looked enough like him to be his
brother. Cordova declared his visitor
was q friend.
Cordova declared that while in
Mexico with Miss Bovine he had sent
his wife over $500. He produced re-
ceipts to prove this statement.
Despite the fact that I sent her
money" he said. she had me indicted
for n%on-support. The other charge was
that l struck her with a tin pieplate.
For that alleged offense I was sem
fenced to serve three years. Is that
justice7' ,
The Rev. Gamble said he Is assisting
Cordova for humanity's sake
This minister made this statement:
When Cordova's case was in the
public eye l paid little attention to it,
believing that he was an impostor.
When 1 first visited the prisoner he
seemed to be glad to see me, and 1
promised to do all in my power to aid
him. Believing he realized his error,
l advised and comforted him. During
this time he seemed restless, and I
asked the cause Of this ~uneasiness. He
told me he a something on his mind
which he wished to confess. / believed
for a time he was insane.
Il continued to tell him that he
ought to drive from his mind thoughts
Of Julia Bovine and replace them with
thoughts of his wife and three chill
dren.
For the first time l realize that Cor
dova, whose name was considered q
disgrace to the ministry, Is a sincere
man. For the first time since I've
known him and learned of his crime /
realize that his beliefs are as firm in
his soul as the moral and religious doc
trines are in our souls. He asked me
for advice, telling me fully of his
hatred for his wife, of his love for the
three little children, of his love for
lula Bovine and her child.
II knew he had wronged his wife and
blighted the young life of a beautiful
girl. What was I to say in advising
this man? In my career 1 have been
a lawyer, a Journalist and a minister.
and have always considered that l
rave understood human natures as we'll
as any other human being.
az told him tina I thought II wa best
for him not to go back to the woman he
detested, but to take that young life
he had ruined and care for 1t as long
ms God gave him strength.
Many may think that my advice
ill-becomes a minister. Let them con-
slider what they would do If they were
asked to give advice in such a case"
1t is feared that the great mental
strain that J. Conover Bovine, the
father of Miss Julia Bovine, mas been
under will drive him insane. For the
past two months he has acted pecu-
liarly and his visits between here and
his adopted home at North Asbury
Park has beer marked by most erratic
conduct.
Girl Keeps Inside House.
His friends have noted the wonder
full change that has come over the
once congenial Con" Bovine, as he
was called.
The fact hat his daughter, a favorite
child, would again be brought into the
limelight has caused him considerable
distress.
The girl has refused to appear on
the streets of Asbury Park during the
day, and her brother has accepted the
task of taking little Oliver Bovine, the
unfrocked pastors child, out for a
daily walk.
The father has urged his daughter
to forget Cordova and the distressful
affair, but she seems to have become
thoroughly infatuated with the man
who has just stepped from prison
walls.