The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-22

Lockers counsel, In fighting the eN-
tradition of his client to New Hamp-
shire. and TO add to Mr. Lockers dis
comfort, Governor Charles M. Floyd,
of New Hampshire, has accepted it as
a valid defense, and Mrs. LOCKER may
not be taken to Concord for trial.
Papers are all in the Governors Of
flee in Concord, but according to Mr..
LOCKER, he refuses to make out the
final requlsition papers until he investi-
gates Mrs. Lockers story.
Il have affidavits from the prosecutor
of Carroll county, n. H., where the
Indictment was returned on December
10 last, declaring that the papers are all
in Concord awaiting the signature Of
the Governor, who is In Manchester"
Mr.. Joker said to an EVENING
STAR reporter. LAS far as DIR. Coburn
hypnotizing any one, 1 saw him and
talked with him for some time and 1
cannot see how he could hypnotic
any one.
S far as 1 have been able to learn
there was a mutual misunderstanding
by each. DIR. Coburn thought my wife
was a wealthy wont and | know he
told friends that he expected to gel
F-o'VVV nun iti III Three months. SnG
thought he was wealthy, whereas he
has a small farm in Wakefield In which
he has an equity of only $500. Wake
field Is a place of about ten inhabi-
tants."
Her Romance with poker
Mrs. LOCKER admits clipping with
LOCKER, and declares thai they were
married In 1902. They lived together
but a few weeks when they separated,
Mrs. LOCKER returning to the home of
her parents in Brooklyn. A year ago
LOCKER brought suit for divorce in the
New Jersey courts, and the trial, which
was held before Vice-Chancellor Emery
here. proved sensational and resulted
In the husbands petition being de-
MED.
Mrs. LOCKER further admits marrying
William F. Coburn, a patent medicine
man and travelling evangelist, who
conducted a sanitarium in East Wake
field, N. H., in September, 1907, with
out having been divorced from LOCKER,
whom she knew to be alive.
This second marriage was
performed when 1 was completely un-
der h mental domination of DIR. Co
burn" declared Mrs. LOCKER in an in
terview with a reporter for THE EVE
MING STAR today. II remember
nothing that happened on September. lf
last, when l am said to have married
Coburn, except that we went for q
drive. l do not remember leaving the
carriage at all, but they claim to have
records to show that the marriage was
performed, so l suppose there is no use
of %disputing that fact.
when Coburn showed me the mar
riage certificate the following day !
made immediate preparations to leave
his sanitarium. but he had taken my
purse and would give me no money
He intercepted my mail, n his house
Keeper assisted me in getting a letter
to my mother. In this letter I asked
for money to return home, and as soor
as 1t was received / left East Wake.
field"
Waits Full Inquiry into story.
These statements have been put in
he hands of Governor Floyd, and he
has delayed issuing the final requisi
ton papers until the allegations can
be further investigated, according to
Mr.. O'Reilly. DR.. Coburn my~steriously
disappeared from East Wakefield sew
eral months ago. and Is now believed
to be somewhere in the far West. ac-
cording to Lockers counsel. George
Robinson, of 90 Nassau street, New
York.