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Sad Plight OF ]. E. Singer
And Wife OF Newark
Newark Advocate)

gret by the many friends OF both par
ties named, as they are we'll known In
Newark:
u. e. Singer and wife, formerly OF
Newark, now of Little Rock, Ark,
were sent Thursday to the county in
frmary by the infirmary directors,
while their 13-year-old daughter was
placed In care of friends OF the fam
lily. Both father and mother admitted
they were victims of the drug habit
and said they had lost their all"
This clipping 1t develops, needs
some explanation, and in endeavor-
ing to clear it UP, an Advocate report
er uncovered most distressing state
Of affairs. 1t was found that ]. E.
Stinger and wife had registered at
the Warden Hotel Thursday night, and
the two circumstances did not seem
to gibe, so that it seemed necessary
to get some light on the subject. Ac-
cordingly the clerk was asked to send
up the reporters name to Mr.. Stin-
gers room, after short delay the lat
ter telephoned down that he would re-
ceive the news man.
When the latter was received by
Mr.. Singer, it did not seem possible
that such a change could come over a
man physically as that noticeable in
the man, he was pacing the corridor
in front of his room, smoking cigar,
when he greeted the reporter with his
old time cherriness, but that was the
end of the resemblance to the Stinger
of several years ago. He was pale,
emaciated, and so nervous that he
could hardly articulate distinctly,
and his mind would leap from
one subject to another without any
close sequence of thought suggestion;
yet the main idea was ever prominent,
viz. that he had been robbed Of his
daughter through the Vaccinations OF
those in league against him and his
wife. He smoked necessarily while
talking for an hour with the reporter.
Mrs. Stinger lay in bed suffering
from dislocated hip, sustained by a
recent fall, and a chronic hernia
which for couple of days has become
acute, causing her great pain, which
of course, she allays with morphine
Upon reading the above clipping Mr.
Stinger said the entire story was ex'
aggerated and part of it untrue. He
said in substance:
what you see here Is not the be.
. ginning but hope near the end of a
series of prosecutions to which and
my wife have been subjected for
years, which eliminated in the steal
ing of our little jewel, Justine. These
prosecutions have been emanating
from my own family, especially one
sister living in Mt. Vernon, who new
er could get along with my wife, and
always blamed me because | would
not desert her.
my wife began the use of morphine
before the birth of our first child
about 18 years ago, and the drug was
prescribed to her by prominent
Newark physician She has at times
been broken away from it, and al
times has stopped it's use on her owl
intuitive, but something has always
come about to take her back to 1t.
ITS ali foolishness about me TAX
ing the drug. Then, don't believe
| that" said Stinger, and at the same
moment he was trembling like an as
pen, and was as white as chalk.
Continuing Mr.. Stinger said:
"Three or four years ago when
| left Newark, l accepted fine posi-
, ton with large jewelry house in Lit
tie Rock, Ark, and moved my family
there | was converted, Joined the
Baptist church, and lived as near al
: exemplary life as it was possible
taking an active interest in the churcf
activities, and also being an officer
Last September ] quit my position
and came east. Our life until the
week before Christmas need not bt
, gone into, but that week l began worl
for Columbus store, but only worked
two days when / was taken Ill ant
had to resign. We were stopping at
hotel there and as my funds were low
we had to get cheaper lodging, which
/ we did.
: Last Friday our little daughter
} Justine was taken from us by the
: Juvenile court in Columbus, and giveI
> to some one, don't know who, bu
suspect it was to my Mt. Vernon sis
: ter. At least ] have not seen ne
t since, and have no doubt that the pro
ceedings emanated from that source
"Well, there we were, practically
stranded and yesterday my wife made
! an appeal to 81 old friend of he
D mother and father, and he told us t.
Inject him at the Chittenden hotel an'
! he would see that we received aid.
with every confidence we wen