New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-27
MORE TALES OF CRUELTY
Pastor Gets Letter Telling How
Alice Randolph Was Beaten.
GOvERNESSES MAY TESTIFY
Mrs Evers Also to Have Women
in Court to Defend Her
Treatment of Child.

when Mrs T.. Virginia Evers appears ia
Social Sessions she viii have many
r,r,on. II is said. 10 tel that only love
,rs consideration had Influenced her in
r. treatment OF Alice Randolph, her
,c.6,vc-vear-od ward. Mrs. Evers, a
,orsewomsn and an automobiles of Ford
lam Heights. lives iu No. "A East lsoth
street Sho saws that she had picked up
Aii~s in san Francisco several years aso.
Tho child. insistent upon knowing her
narontagc, has invoked the assistance of
49, Row Dewitt Pelton, of tho First
rrosbytcriau Church, The Bronx. and OF
,.rsons who have from time 70 time been
virI her a. Eovernesses.
p- Pelton received letter yesterday,
reading as follows.
pcrerend Sir. As 7 read an account in
,hi, morning. paper about this Mrs.
,~..o would Ike as a man Of your
III. ~ church. ~ acouaint YOU with what I
lrovy about this woman and the way She
treated the child On the past Ny cousin,
Miss Adelaide Hart, was for seven wears
"a eoverness of the child At the Hotel 81
Ce0rce. The stories she told my mother.
Ter aunt, about the treatment the child
cot were something awful II any one
~orrlG call on my mother No. l24 Fulton
street Brooklyn she viii gladly tell all
sho knows about the affair, as We ali
rfiaC the child. She was such a good lit
ID girl II would not be safe 10 let that
child go back 20 her mother.
Tic letter was signed by James z. Walsh
or so. 1914 Fulton street. Brooklyn. He
and his mother, Mrs. Mary Walsh, said
that Miss Hart now was a governess In
Lakewood y o.. but that II she were
wanted she would appear as a witness In
fhe Eyers case. Mrs. Evers, who was
known a. Mrs Price i'm the Hotel st
George Brooklyn. said last evening that
she was not afraid Of the outcome Of the
case
Adelaide and T." said Mrs Walsh last
evening. saw an advertisement I'm a
newspaper for a soverness, signed by Mrs
Price. as Mrs. Evers then was known. We
went 90 the s.. George and met smiling
gracious woman. who. after a talk, hired
ADELAIDE who often went out with Alice
for a walk. 7 noticed that we never could
get Alice TO talk about Mrs. Price. Ny
niece often told me that after she had q
day of Alice would complain that she
had been beaten savagely and she showed
her little body I'm confederation OF he'
story. She said that upon it her mother
had made the stripes. 4 year and a hall
ago Mrs Price said she was going 20 take
Alice 90 Germany with her, and Adelaide
found another place"
In 1913 Mrs Price registered in the Hote
ST. George under the name Of Mrs. Esther
line Virginia Price With her was Alice
who also was known by the name OF Price
After Frederick w Evers, who was stay
ing at that time in the Hotel St. George
had married Mrs. Price. the party moved
10 their present address IN Fordhau
Heights There, according 10 the story
told by Alice. Mrs. Evers informed her thai
she would be known as Alice Randolph.
Mr. Evers said his wife had a friend ir
san Francisco named Alice Randolph anc
her little girl Alice was adopted by Mrs
Evers Or Pelton and all the rest oil
them are against my Wife he said. "bu
when the case comes mp the public vii
hear q different story from that which
seems to appeal so strongly TO DR.. Peltor
and the public generally ar the present
tnc''
Alice few DAYS ago went TO Or. Peltor
and told him that she frequently had beer
beaten mercilessly by Mrs. Evers. He go
Tire Chldren's Society interested I'm The
case Mrs. Evers was arrested. Her hus
hand furnished $1,000 bail After hearing
the chiId's story Magistrate Butts heh
Mr.. Evers for Special Sessions.
Adelaide Hart may come up from Lake
wood 90 boar witness. DR.. Pelton and hi
wife also will be- in court. Two agents o
the Chudrens Society stin are gathering
evidence Boo the case.