The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-21
Exhibits Returned HuSbandtO
Prove He is Alive
AND SHE NO MURDERESS
Those Who Suspected Her Ask Forgive
ness--She Hasn't Pardoned Man
Who Fled IA Years Ago and
He Must Woo Again.

Phillipsburg, n q, Aug. 2l-up and
down the Pohateong and the Museonet-
cong valleys and over the hills between,
drove George Frey and bis wife. al day
Wednesday through the pouring rain,
that all the countryside might see he
is alive and know that she was not
bis murderess, also that all might know
he believed she had been true through
all the fourteen dreary years since he
ran away and left her and his son. On
Thursday they went to the annual picnic
Of the farmers at Belvidere to further
spread the vindication Of the long shm-
ned and suspected woman and the news
Of the husbands return
After that Frey perhaps may have
his first kiss from the wife be aban-
doned, but she will not even grant him
handshake until She feels that every
man, woman and child in Warren coun-
ty, n. j., from the Delaware back to
The mountains, knows that she il guilt
less Of murder and inadelity and the
man who came out Of oblivion with all
the anticipation Of woocr admits that
her decision is right and is willing to
bide his time.
Frey, who was prosperous farmer
in the village Of Broadway. n. j.. drop.
ped out Of sight fourteen years ago as
completely as if Jenny Jump mountain
had opened and swallowed him up. On
Wednesday he told the reasons for his
disappearance and his wife. after four
teen years Of silent suffering from the
most cruel suspicion, delivered her mind
She viii be the heroine at the farmers
picnic and county gossips who have
pointed her out to strangers as woman
Of dreadful mystery will beg her for
giyeness Many Of them have begged
forgiveness already. As the pair drove
in their buggy from farm to farm they
stopped at every dooryard while the
wife called out 70 the women folk whom
she had not spoken to for fourteen
years.
Here Is George Frey, my husband
He is aliveis
And the farmers wives, foreetfuf Of
the storm. rushed bareheaded % the
roadside 10 look at the man brought back
from the dead. and farmers left their
threshing floors and rainy day jobs ia
woodsheds to shake hands with the
sheepish looking Frey
II am alive" be said, simply Ny
wife Is good woman; abandoned her
she was true 70 me- The stories you
have told about her are Iies!1
Frey made this speech many times
and it should be said to the credit Of
the men and women who heard It that
they extended their hands to the woman
in the buggy and begged pardon. She
forgave them She has forgiven her hus
band, but She does not love him and
has told him She cannot. So he win
begin all over again to WOO her as he
did the FIRST time, thirtg.on years ago.
If he succeeds she viii return with nmt
to Illinois, where he has acquired means
as building contractor II be does not
succeed in revising tile love killed by
neglect. he viii return to the West alone.
In that case Mrs, Frey viii ask for
q divorce, for there Is another man who
loves her, who has defended her name
and has waited as patiently as Philip
ever waited Tor Enoch Arden's Annie
This Is not Emmanuel Marlatt, the man
with whose name that Of the woman was
30 cruelty and maleiously coupled four.
teen years ago Incidentally this strange
home coming is a good thing for Mar.
latt, who has suffered too, from sus.
picion that he and Mrs Frey were &C
completes in killing the husband and
hiding bis body on the Frey farm.
TO get back to the cause 81 all this
tragedy it was Jersey apprejack When
George Frey and Mary Butts, then TWEEN.
~ years old were married in 1873 at her
fathers home in Monroe county. Pa, and
made their wedding Journey into Jersey
with tie two cows that were her bridal
portion, there wasn't a better 81 kinder
man in the two states than the BRIDE
groom. But prosperity was too much
for him. The fame Of bis stock spread
III over the northern Jersey and he
irove to distant villages and county
seats I'd sell his horses and cattle. And