Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-06
PAID HIM 10 PER CENT
FOR CASH ADVANCED
Also Gave Him Bible to Elevate HIS
Mind-peniss That She Ever Per-
naittsd Tommy to Kiss 'Asr-Fou'kes
Had Ambition to Guido Osler-Miss
Miller On Witness Stand.


pourri of romance and finance known
to Chicago as 1.-THE Adventures of
Sentimental Tommy Foulkes," or
.-That woolng Farmer From Danbury,
H."
These new elements were contribut-
ed by Miss Lodavaine Miller, joint de-
PENDANT with her brother, Attorney j..
Marion Miller, who gave testimony
yesterday. The Millers are accused of
having Swindled Foulkes out OF ap-
proximately $4,000.
Sentimental Tommy" heard his re-
signed flance contradict nearly every
point of his testimony. She admitted
the receipts of money from Foulkes,
but declared she spent most Of 1t as
his agent: the balance she borrowed.
paving interest at the rate Of 10 per
cent.
Deals She Put Thru For Him.
The business relations between her
and Foulkes as told by Miss Miller
were:
She sold Foulkes her fifty shares in
q San Bernardino mining company at
$50.
Endorsed one Of the checks for Ss5 in
Los Angeles, explaining 1t was merely
a. Darlk 1dentluCatIOF.
Paid $500 for two lots at Tropico.
Cal. for Foulkes.
Paid 5000 for one lot at Glendale.
Cal. for Foulkes.
mot a cent from Mr.. Foulkes went
INTO any Of my purchases she in
sisted, after admitting she owned prop
erty adjoining his in California
It was In 1902, she said, that she
first got money from Foulkes. She had
written her uncle in Ames. Iowa, for
loan, needing money to prosecute a
suit against the street railway COM
pany. Uncle wrote back that he was
broke" but his good friend F'oulkes.
would advance the cash, he felt sure.
And Foulkes did Miss Miller identi-
fled numerous drafts and letters Of a
business nature
Says She Paid Him 10 Per Cent.
'NThe drafts were loans, were they"
Attorney Stedman inquired.
EVERY one Of them. And paid him
back at the rate Of 10 per cent a year"
Miss Miller denied having urged her
farmer friend to court a certain rich
widow In Los Angeles.
II did reconnrnen that he should
leave iowa. go to Los Angeles, and join
the Young Mems Christian Association,
tho she added. "And I gave him a
bible to elevate his mind"
did he ever talk to you about his
business p
YES. He used to carry some gold
nuggets in his pockets. He told me
they were from a 100000 mine he
owned in Tonopah. New. He also said
he owned q squad farm in California,
and that the squads loved home life
and never got divorces"
Ambitions to Guido osler.
Miss Miller brought a roar Of laugh
ter from the jury and crowded court
room and blush to the face Of the
"unkissed' when she told Of Tom
1ny's" ambition to become a second DR..
Osler.
Tommy came to me last year and
told me he had mania to kill every
man over rs years of age who had iron
gray hair" said Miss Miller. showing
her dimples HE said he believed Os-
lers theory was correct so far as It
went, but it ought to include gray
haired men also. He said he wanted to
begin on Mayor Busse and Judge
Baldwin"
HAS former Mayor Busse gray hair,
or is he bald?" asked Assistant States
Attorney Erickson solemnly.
Miss Miller frowned inpatiently
when the jury and court room yelled
its delight at the Joke The dimples re-
appeared when her attorney leaned
over and explained the physiognomy
of Buses dome and its lack Of cover
ing.
Miss Miller declared that never in
her long acquaintance with Tommy
Foulkes did they discuss anything but
stocks and squads. Instead OF his CIV
ing her 1000, she indignantly de-
clared that he loaned her whatever
money she obtained from him and
charged her good stiff rates of interest
for it.
Talked Stocks and Squads.
Miss Miller smilingly denied every
thing that Foulkes had told the jury
from the witness stand. She declared
that he never wrote her asking for her
hand and that she never sent him a
letter saying she would marry him.
Also she declared that there was moth
ing doing in the kissing line between
Tommy and herself.
'sDfd YOU ever receive a 800 draft
from Fou1kes with which to buy a we'd
ding ring or an engagement ring?''
asked Attorney Seymour Stedman OF
Miss Miller.
Miss Miller looked at the uneasy
~Tommy' with smile and then an
swered that she received draft for
800, but 1t was sent to her to buy
Tommy gold watch. She said the
next time she went to Iowa he was
wearing It.
Miss Miller said that F'ou!kes told hex
that he had a large SQUAD farm in Cali
4oYnia.
sS4uahs Never Divorced"
s.. s.Ize told me that squads love home
slsan and never get divorces" said Mics
!1kule, stu smiling.
81 ssVVhat was your usual conversation
With IouUces p she was asked.
about his business" was the reply.
was It mostly about the squads he
zt0NAed p
yes, We talked good deal about the
birds" admitted Miss Miller glancing
again toward Tommy"
1 What was the gist Of the correspon-
,Aeuce carried on between you and
l1oulkes?' asked Assistant States At
1orneyl Loves.
About business matters"
And the only reason Foulkes ever
ssn.sav 10 youE- nome was to raK auoui