The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-26
CHOIR SINGER IN
SECLUS|ON TALKS
At ASBURY PARK
Waiting Until COrdOya Is Out of
Jail Before Making Their
Plans for Future.
SCORNED BY HIS WIFE,
GIRL SEEMS STILL LOVING
''If Suffering and Remorse Purge
Sins, My Daughters Mistake
Is Atoned,' Mother Says.
LspeeIal % lhe EyenIns star.l

AsBURY PARK, March 2s.---"Tf I
hope to marry Mr. Cordoya. would
not tell of my plans just yet. when
he is free ! will be better able TO dis-
cuss our futurc.-
Miss Julia Bovine. the pretty young
choir singer. for love of whom J. Frank
cordova, former pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in South River
abandoned his wife and is now serving
IA term in State Prison. thus expressed
herself at her home. 924 Sunset avenue,
today
Won't Discuss Mrs. CorIova.
Miss Bowie would make no further
comment on the news that Cordova
would leave State prison in July. When
Miss Bovine made her remark little p
year-old Arthur Bovine. the 'living
image" of the unfrocl1ed dominic. was
playing at her feet No amount OF
persuasion could make Cordovas "af-
finity' discuss the burning statement
issued by his wife yesterday, in which
Mrs. Cordova declared that under no
circumstances would she ever lake back
the husband who deserted her even
more brutally than did the Rev. Jere
Cooke. of Hampstead, l.. l., who aban
doned his wife to flee westward with
young Floretta Whaley.
'My husband is free to marry Julia
BOVINE" the former preachers wife
said. ~ know TINT he still loves her.
and when he leaves state prison at
Trenton In July he can go to her, she
added.
''No power on earth would ever be
strong enough TO make me take him
back" continued Mrs. Cordova, talking
to her interviewer. He has disgraced
our children; ruined my life Let him
marry the girl. Let him give their child
d name He can eondone at least in
that respect for the sorrow and shame
he has brought into so many lives"
When Cordova was first sent to
prison their youngest child was Just II
months old. Today it is sturdy little
lad of years. The oldest girl is IA.
and the other child-a boy--is II.
Mrs. Cordova was found yesterday at
her little dwelling in Atlantic High
lands. Very sadly and with infinite
pathos she told Of her future plans and
of the struggle she has had for fonr
years to maintain the home disgraeed
by the Bovine girls lover She said,
when I found myself alone after the
disclosures which proved to me the un-
faithfulness of the man | trusted and
loved and of the sin of the girl l looked
upon as one of the best and most trust
worthy among my women friends,
was ready to die of grief. | was III
from suffering. Not robust at best |
lost flesh until I weighed only ninety
pouRds. My sister and her husband
took me to live with them. but / could
not bear the thought of being a bur
den upon them, and I determined to do
something for myself. | took q house
and advertised for boarders."
COrdova in Jail Ignored Wife.
Mrs. Cordova said that she had writ
ten to her husband that il at any time
he wished to see his children she would
send them to Trenton. or that if at any
time he wanted to see her in regard to
them she would go to him.
Il have never had word asking 60
sec the little ones, and he once loved
them devotedly." sighed the mother
The Bovine girl lives a life of absolute
seclusion in Asbury Park She has con-
versed with no one save her mother
and father. She spends most of her
time through the days in walking along
the long stretches of the beach She
never attends church or social func
tions. Frequently she drives about in
n little pony carriage with her baby
boy
Her mother said today:
"If suffering ard remorse purge one
of sin, then my daugh htcr's mistake hns
been wiped out.
"Of course. We hope for a righting Of
wrongs before the world when the tune
comes. but we must wait.