The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-13
LOGAN
TELLS Of
TUCKER s
N|SDEEDS

Topeka. Kas. Nov. l3-Mrs John
A. Logan, in a three-column commun,-
cation printed in daily paper here.
gives her views OF he life OF her SOD
! in-law, Colonel William r. Tucker.
now critically ill iu the army and
navy hospital at Hct Springs, Ark
! After discussing i'm detail his habits
and declaring him addicted TO whisky
and cigarettes. and the viotim of fire.
quent attacks OF delirium tremens
| Mrs. Logan recounls how she has tried
| to reform Colonel Tucker and how she
wert 10 presidents and secretaries o.
war and appealed for promotion for
him and easy assignments. In Wash
| ngton Tucker S associations were so
bad. she says, that he was sent to ST.
Paul. TO which place Mrs. Logan made
several trips TO "straighten him out
| Mrs Logan continues:
"Finally Tucker was sent to Manila
whore he added to his excessive drink
| ing and cigarette smok.Ag a fondness
Il for Mrs, Myrtle Plat, With whom he
associated when not on duty.
Final Letter Abusive.
Tucker had written affecrlonate let
ters TO HIS wife. but one day she re.
celyed an abusive one. and that was
the last one the family received from
Tucker Tucker and Mrs. F.att were
planning to return to the United
Stbtes, buj the paymatser would not
permit them TO come on The same boat
AIRS Plat preceded Tucker. who
cabled Masonic friends to meet her
al Honolulu
His wife al Washington was not
advised of fuckers coming although
she had offered to meet her husband
at San Francisco. This privilege
Fucker refused her When Tucker
arrived AT san Francisco Mrs Plat
met him and embraced him. He had
spent nine days in the ships hospital
with an attack Of delirium tremens.
OF the Pacific slope esoapade be.
tween Tucker and Mrs Platt Mrs. Lo.
gan sayc
He accompanied her to her hotel
but for prudential reasons pretendec
70 live at another hotel during the six
J days that he remained In san Fran.
: cisco. He secured 4 leave OF thirty
, days ard, accompanied by Mrs Platt
went to Portland, Oregon. They stay
ed In the same hotel; We're constantly
together during his leave, and, bear
In mind al of this time he had not ir
any way communicated with bis fam
| lily or with me- who had been his
guard Ian and devoted mother all these
! years, nor with h.g son. an officer In
the marine corps His son has never
( heard a word from him since he left
Washington in January, 1906
After having very delightful time
motoring and disslpating In Portland
he reported IN Chicago May Il, 1907
TO enter upon HIS duties ss chief pay
4 master OF he department Of the lakes
Learns ooings on Coast.
In the em8ntimc hsd gone TO SaT
q Francisco to te quite sure that We
were doing him no injustice. and / hat
obtained he facts Of his willful deser
y ton of his wife and OF his constant
\ association with this woman In Man
Ia, which became a pubNc saanda
there.
Mrs Tucker her son and mysel
met in Chicago, May 30 1907, anC
tried n every known way through
frierds ard appeals TO see Colone
3 Tucker 20 ascertain II IL We're no
4 possible TO do something 20 bring hin
i'll 10 "a IfNlAfdl'hN hl Mudl ne WIS uNlN'
Il and OF the ruin that WAS sure 10 fol
y low his course
Failing absolutely In seeing hin
n we returned 10 Washington aud Mrs
q Tucdev, through official channels. an
q lpHed tO have him investigated by th'
u war department askihg that his men
q tai physical and moral condition hl
n thoroughly examined We were unde
a the impression that he was not re
4 spuns!hlo on account OF his contlnu
Il Gus dissipation and the effects OF
N tropical climate
b The department has for some an
II known reason failed 70 make dec
n sion In his case otwithstanding th
B fact that they sent out inspectors
q upCn whose report WAS written tha
II his conduct was hlameworihy and In
3 discreet since which time he ha
q added insult 10 injury, and while IA
= der Investigation I'm August. 1897, h
took another leave from neadquarter
m Chicago and vert TO Ration ~ N
= where Mrs. Plat lad been for shOr
dime by bis arrangement
Scandal Given Publicity.
The papers all oyer the country a.
reared announcing their intimate a,
s0ciat.ons in Ration, and we had IA
humiliation OF seeing their name
coupled together on the bullet.