The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-23
EVE GAVE ADAM
The FORBIDDEN
FRUIT AGAIN
The Wife of Derelict Husband
Says the Girl Was the
Tempter
KANSAS PREACHER FINDS
FORGIVENESS AWA|T|uG H|M

FORGIVENESS AWAII|nG hIhl
Deluded Girl Is at the Home Of Her
Parents While Her Paramour Is in
jail Awaiting Trial ON Charge Of
Abduction.
Ottawa, Kas., Sept. 23.-The Rev.
Wallace NJ. Stuckey, in Jail here upon
a charge Of enticing from home a girl
member Of his congregation, bowed
his head last night and made the first
payment Of bitter tears upon his debt
Of sorrow for sin. It was the first
time he had wept since his arrest
with the girl in Waukegan, Ill. The
tears trickled between the outspread
fingers that covered his face, and his
shoulders heaved with sobs.
It was a message of tender love and
trust and loyalty from his wronged
wife that brought his collapse.
From her home in Williamsburg she
had called up friend in Ottawa, and
told him to go to Jail and see her
husband and tell him that she and
their children would be there Monday
to see him, and that she had forgiven
him and would stand by him, no mat
ter what happened.
The clergyman had a look of utter
weariness as he came to his cell graf
ing.
Tears When He Heard It.
II have a message from you wife, 50
the friend said, and told him. The
prisoner hung his head. as he stood
clinging with one hand to the grating.
Then he staggered to his cot. sat
down upon it and his face dropped to
his hands. After awhile he said.
brokenly:
Il thank you. ! think you know
III cannot say anything now"
The friend said that Mrs. Stuckey
was weeping as she sent the message
over the telephone: 1T was:
."Tell him that I and the children
WILL be there Monday to see him. And
am not coming to give him q tongue
lashing. / am coming to forgive and
forget and to stand by him always in
all his troubles. He cannot do any
thing that would make me forsake
him, and when he is in trouble he
needs me most"
Miss Lorena Sutherland, forgiven
lshy her family for her escapade with
her pastor, was In her own home last
night helping to nurse her sick faith
er.
There is one who withholds forgiv-
eness. That one Is the wife of Mr..
Stuckey. Her voice shaken with sobs
she said tonight:
No Forgiveness for the Girl.
Its too bad to let that girl come
home while my husband has to stay
in Jail. She Is too brazen. She comes
back here when she knows she has
broken my heart. She is the more
guilty Of the two. She has caused
suffering that cannot be told in
words" -.
Lorena Sutherland was not locked
up in Ottawa. Her mother was await
ing her in the sheriff's home when she
reached here today. AS the girl went
In at the door her mother ran to meet
her. Not word was spoken as they
rushed together and fell into each
others arms. The girl hid her face
on her. mothers breast and the moth
er bent down and kissed her neck and
patted her shoulder, while both wept.
Then they went upstairs together
and talked 1t over.
A half hour later Lorena was eating
q luncheon from a box she brought
with her on the train. She crumbied
a piece of cake in her fingers Aand
picked the currants out and ate them,
letting the crumbs drop into the box.
Anxious to See Her Father.
I'm just anxious now to see papa
and get his forgiveness. too," she said.
The motor car Of M. f, Getchell,
mayor of Williamsburg, was awaiting
her at the door. She and her mother
got into 1t and an hour later she was
at the gate of the home where she
was born. She was the first out, and
she did not stop moment. She ran
into the house. The mayor said that
as he left he heard her sobbing IN
her fathers aims.
Mr.. Stuckey denies that he wronged
the girl. He talked rather freely this
afternoon as he stood in his cell. He
looked detected. dispirited and de-
pressed.
II am absolutely not guilty Of
wronging her." he said. I'VE did not
sin together"
do you mean to say you have done
no wrong?"
mo. no. not that. have done
wrong. It was wrong for me to leave
my family. And 1t was wrong for me
to let her stay with me after she
came to me in Chicago"
you deny that you made love 20
her in Williamsburg before you went
eway?"
Denies He Made Love to Her. {.
II do. never made love to her.
When went away there was no IN.
derstanding that she would come 20
me. was surprised when she did
come"
How did she know whore to nnd
lyou7.