The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-10-30
DEFENDS HUSBAND
SENATOR GoRMAN's DAUGHTER
WILL PLEAD FOR pEsERTER.
LOVE IN CONTEST WITH NAVY
Young Masness Under Guard In phila.
delphia Awaiting His Trial
BY Court-Martial.

Washington, ID c.. Special: He's
mine now and they cant take him
away from me. He belongs to me.
When they attack Charlie they attack
me- and that means that | will fight
for him, for ! am German"
With tears streaming down her
cheeks and her face twitching with
emotion Mrs Ada German Magness.
wife OF the deserter from the Dol.
phin, arrived in Washington TO plead
with the officials OF the Navy Depart
ment 10 pardon her husband Young
Charles Magness was with her. guard
ed on either side by the two detec-
tiyes who arrested him In Louisville
He is on his way to PHILADELPHIA
where he will be tried by Court.mar-
tial Title Magness. the ffteen-year-
old sister OF the prisoner, also accom-
panied the party as far as Washing
ton.
Magness left the train, entered a
taxicab with his guards and was
whirled off TO see the sights OF Wash
ington, while his wealthy wife took
his sister to her home in Baltimore.
Nobody knows the suffering have
endured as the resul; of this affair"
said the daughter of the late Senator
from Maryland. Il wouldn't care if
they would only print the truth. Some
papers have been cruel enough TO say
that Charlie married me for my mon.
ey IL is not true. We were married
because We loved each other. and we
would be living happily in our beau
tiful little home in Louisville this min
ute If II We're not for the treachery OF
man who pretended to be our friend.
IL was he who told the detectives that
my husband was a deserter from the
navy, and he did it all for the paltry
reward offered by the Government for
the arrest of deserters."
Mrs. Magness's emotions were var
led One moment she was in a rage
at the newspapers. the next she was
scoring their treacherous friend. and
in moment she sOftened and smiled
as she spoke of her boy husband, OF
his manly qualities and Of his love
for her. She said she has not read all
the letters made public by Miss
Georgianna Happier her husbands
former sweetheart, and expressed the
opinion that they We're fakes When
asked about the truth OF some partic-
ular passages she suggested that the
letter be read TO her IL happened to
be the most affectionate epistle which
Miss Happier alleges her sailor boy
sent to her. II breathed of love and
boyish devotion, told how the writer
longed for his release from the navy,
in order that he might live in his own
cozy home instead of the humdrum
life aboard ship. and closed with the
assertion that you are the only girl |
ever could love- As the words were
read Mrs Magness's face was a pic
ture of suffering She tore at her
handkerchief. bit her lips and strug-
gled valiantly 10 control her emotions
but 10 no avail. The tears trickled
down her face, and finally she burst
into tears
ITS not true" she said. THE let |
ter isn't true He doesn't write that |
way. She wrote IT,"
But. suppose" il was suggested.
1T should develop that he really did
write it?"
II would not make any difference
to me- | love him and he loves me
now His relations with that girl are
things of the past He is mine now
my husband. and intend TO stick TO
him, no matter what happens. He is
he only man ] have ever really loved.
and the only man ever want to love.
When my dear father was alive no
nan came into my life. | gave none
II them serious consideration. | idol
zed my father. | was with him all
he time. wrote for him. looked after
lis mail and when he was sick /
lursed him. When he was alive had
10 thought of men We were com
'anions and men never entered my
mind. After he had gone I was lone
ONE And then ! met Charlie"