The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-02-05
Preachers Warm Love EpistIes
Are Cause of Downfall.
HUBBY NOW SEEKS DIVORCE
Cipher Was Discovered, Hence Case
Which Is Now In Court jus
tice In New York.

New York, Feb. 3.--When the suit
Boynton against the Rev. Edwin +.
Hard for $4,000 damages for alienas
ton of wife's affections comes to
trial, some perfervid correspondence
will be put in evidence by Mr.. Boyn-
ton. Mrs. Boynton is young woman
of independent fortune, being worth
$l50000 in her own right. The hus-
bands means are extremely moderate.
At the time of the alleged aliena-
ton Mr.. Hard was pastor of a congre
CATION of Newport, this county, and
the Boyntons were members of it.
Later Mr.. Hard moved to Dunkirk and
it was there he was arrested Such
was the feeling against him that even
with his wide acquaintance none could
be found to 90 on the $4,000 bond re-
quired for bail and he had to go to a
surety company for it.
Boynton's counsel are Steel & Pres
colt, of which ex-Assemblyman Steele
is a member. Hard has retained for
mer Senator A. M. Mills.
In the complaint filed it is alleged
that Hard, in writing to Mrs. Boynton,
used in part sort of code, compris-
ing initials and dots and dashes. At
the top of one six-page letter, un-
dated was drawn a clock. The letter
begins with MY Dear B. B." and
closes with well my dear little black
kittie, you and | won't dispute. Mac"
In another letter dated Sept. %, 1905,
the recipient is called an. O. B. O."
(My Own Beautiful Queen), and sd.
S. H." dear Sweet Hearty
The Code Letters.
''You will never know" it runs, chow
much NJ. d. S. H. is to me nor how
long to look into those dear road
lights again. They are the stars that
have, oh, SO often, spoken joy and
cheer to my heart. / have certainly
never had doubt of the reality or
quality of my attachment for you, but
| have come to realize more fully how
completely it possesses my whole be-
ing"
Then follow lot of code dots and
words, followed by the words Don't
you think so?" Then some peculiar
marks and long dash followed by
you may have to study awhile on
this page, but / wanted to say all this
and more to you today, feeling as L
do; yet | do not care to enlighten
even possible outsider into whose
hands you know this might perchance
fall"
"My Dear Girl"
In another letter, without date OH
the paper of the New Cumberland ho-
tel, Plattsburg, the recipient is adj
dressed as "My Dear girl" and also by
a term in code. The writer says that
being disappointed in business, he has
recourse to ''but one thing that can
afford satisfaction-tha is talk with
the mainstay of all my work." At the
bottom of the page he writes: eff you
ever fail Newell, that settles all"
In the same letter he appoints a date
for meeting ner OH his return from a
trip. Further along he writes:
SIN my pocketbook is one of my
fondest treasures. 1t is beautiful
face that looks back into mine, only
it is sient--a silence eloquent with
memorials of days and hours when a
language uttered all | can ask to hear.
am waiting patiently for the voice
again" The letter is signed "Mac,"
with the admonition Surely destroy
this letter" UNDERSIGNED.
Some of the letters relate to trips
by the two into the woods, both
being dressed in mems clothes.