Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-11
COROOVA IS FREE ON FRIDAY
WILL BEGIN LIFE ANEW WITH
ABOUT $25.
Earnings Spent for Education-Silent
About Plans-Expected to
Join Miss Bovine.

TRENTON, n. j., August Ill. Frank
Cordova, the unfrocked Methodist Episco-
pal clergyman, who twice deserted his
wife and their little children and as many
times eloped with Miss Julia Bovine, his
South River choir girl. is spending the last
days of his four years term in the state
prison here.
He will leave the prison next Friday
morning and what he then intends to dt
only he himself knows, unless he has In
some way unknown to his keepers trans
mitted his plans to Miss Bovine. who
with her child, is now living with her pa
rents in Ocean Grove.
1t has been freely reported that the dis
graced clergyman will go at once to New
ark, where vile will be Joined by Miss
Bovine. and that he will marry her as soon
as he can be divorved by his wife. who
is now keeping a boarding house along
the coast. But of this report Cordova
has nothing to say to any one. he refuses
absolutely to see any one from the out
side.
Protected From Visitors.
The head keeper, George o. Osborne,
has made 1t rule not to allow convicts
to be approached against their will. To
such of the prison guards who have ven
tured to question him on his plans for the
future the unfrocked pastor has either
turned a deaf ear or told them that what
he intended to do after his sentence was
none of the public's business.
II have been harshly death with by a
prejudiced and unsympathetic public and
l have paid the penalty which the law
exacted." he said some time ago, land
now | want the public to leave me and
my life alone. I expect to attend to my
business and l want other people to do
the same
The prison authorities expect however.
that Cordova will get out Of New Jersey
territory as speedily as a railroad train
will take him after he leaves the prison
doors Friday. 1t is believed that he will
go to New York and then probably TO
Mexico. where he formerly lived and
other relatives.
He is equally uncommunicative regard
ing the financing of his immediate future.
but 1t is thought that his brother will ad-
vance him funds to enable him to reach
Mexico and begin life anew. When the
have less than So in his possession. in
Guiding the five-dollar bill which is given
to each discharged convict by the state.
Has Been Buying Education.
During the four years Cordova has been
confined in the prison ne has worked al
most steadily in the contract handkerchief
shops. and his industry there has Melted
him considerable money. but the bulk of
this he has expended for a correspond
ence school course in stenography and
typewriting. He is able to take dictation
at a fairly rapid rate and is a skllfuI
manipulation of the typewriting machine.
In his studies and work Cordova has
received the encouragement of the keeper
and his deputies. but to them he has
given only the merest thanks for their
friendly interest. His one desire has al
ways been to be left alone as much as
possible.
The one bitter disappointment of Cor
dova's prison career has been the re-
fusal of the court of pardons to grant
him restoration to citizenship. He want
ed a parole or pardon at first, but later
was willing to foregO any reduction of
his prison time If he could only leave
the institution free from the sting of dis
Reimbursement But this was refused him
by the state authorities. in view of the
seriousness of the Offense.
CordOvas only recent request of his
keepers Is that he shall be kept at work
until the night before his liberation. He
says he wants no favors of any kind.