Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-01
MAY invoke LEGAL
ACTION To STOP
LETTER WRITING
Recipients of Missives Engage
Lawyer, and Sensational Dis
closures May Result.

Ovidio Bianchi. an Orange attorney.
has been engaged by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Brewer, who live in Lakeside
avenue, that city, to look after their
interests and stop the writing of let
ters to them, which have caused con-
siderable 1t is limited that
legal proceedings will follow If the
writer does not stop her work.
As the EVENING STAR told exclu-
siyely on Saturday, a number of mis-
sives have been sent to several resi-
dents OF Lakeside avenue demanding
that certain ~neighborhood gossip about
the writer must cease or Chief of Po-
lice George P. Washer and Judge
Joseph B.. Bray would interfere. The
only evidence of the writer is con-
tanned in the signature Edna which
was attached to some of the notes.
The story back of the letter-writing,
ca recited by residents of Lakeside
Is a criticism of "Edna's"
demonstrative exhibitions of affection
for a certain man residing in that
section. The gossip of the women fol-
lowing the alleged clandestine meet
ings of Edna who is said to be mar
ried, with a married man. whose name
has not as yet been given, caused the
writing of the letters. 1t is claimed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brewer were mystifled
as to the reasons for sending them
notes, as they have not paid any atten-
tion to the gossip, and the other folk
in the neighberhood are equally angry
over the notes. The peculiar feature
that has occasioned so much comment
is the fact that the letters were all
sent out in the envelopes used at Or
ange police headquarters, bearing the
address No. 26 North Centre street, and
the writer has mentioned Chief Washer
and Judge Bray as likely to visit dire
punishment on the gossiping folk.
Mr.. Bianchi today declined to discuss
the affair at all and denied knowledge
OF the names of any other recipients of
misslves. although he said he was told
other residents along Lakeside avenue
had received the Edna" letters.
There has been no report to me of
the letter-sending," said Chief George
P. Washer today, when asked if he in
tended finding how the stationery of
his office leaked to outsiders. Until
there Is formal complaint" he said. 81
will do nothing in the mattery. Plenty
of envelopes go out of here every day,
so you see 1t would be an easy matter
for them to get in the hands of out
siders.'
1.-THE case is one for the postal au-
thorities," said Judge Bray, in stating
he had received no complaints.
The recipients of the letters are disln-
clined to talk about the case, and from
the ne~ighborhood talk 1t has been
learned that one of the women who got
a letter promptly notified the police and
the next day Edna sent along a
clumsily written apology. She has de-
cided to pay no further attention to the
case, the ~neighbors say. as the apology
evidently satisfied her that the writer
does not include her In the list of talk
ing ones.
The letters are scrawled in lead PEN
ell, the writer evidently anxious to
conceal her identity. The residents
who have received the notes do not
hesitate to mention the name of the
suspected writer. but are not DESTROYS
of ~precipiating trouble upon her family.
1t is a certainty, however, that any
further notes win mean an exposure
of the whole affair, and it Is said the
notoriety will cause amazement, W
ing to the prominence of the parties
involved,