The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-05
ALDERMAN JAILED
AS bLACKMA|LER
Of A RICH WIDOW
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all. Detective Regain got In closet.
When We came In even Florence was
not In sight. though did think heard
groans now and then from the bedroom
where Mr. Maher was.
IL explained TO Mr.. Davis that 7
should make out the chock dated ahead.
so that II the papers were not delivered
10 me ] could stop II at the bank. He
said that was all right. | had him
make out the check and he was so ner-
vous he made the date Aug. Q. twice. be-
fore he got II right handed him the
SIS for Mr.. owens. the bills had been
marked by the detectives.
NOV, friends. lir. owen said, be
fore va close this transaction let us
kneel In prayer
He got down on his knees and Mr..
Davis got down and 70 did i. MT.
Owens prayed for all OF us and that
the Lords blessing might DO upon what
we were about TO do. Now and then
Mr.. Davis said Amen
'whn we got on our feet again Mr..
Davis caught me around the whist and
did O waltz step before ! could stop
him. and while was pushing him Off
he kissed me. U-ug-r-rh!'
Mrs. Carroll scrubbed her plump lips
with dainty handkerchief and went on
with the narrative.
Just then there was q tremendous
| noise In my bedroom. 1t was like an
! earthquake. 1t was Mr.. Msher trying
to get out from under the bed. II 10 a
narrow single bed and rather low. Then
| there came n crash and the bed went
over and 30 did a lot OF the other fur
nlture. Mr.. Trayer and MT. ftegan ran
In and held Mr.. Davis and Mr.. owens
Mr.. Maher did not get out FOR some
| time. tainted. The last ] remember
is that Mr.. Owens. who had been hum
ming hymns again while I was fighting
Mr.. Davis was saying: why this IL
| terrfblel This In all wrongr'
PEsTERED BY NUMEROUS SUIT.
oRs, CHE SAYS.
Mrs. Carroll. explaining her acauaint
ance with Davis and Owens. safe
that soon after she came here last
year she met q man named John u
Carroll and married him. They dit
not live happily from the start. She
felt that she could not trust her hus.
band with her business affairs. Car
roll brought Owens homo one night
and soon afterward Owens volunteered
to take the husband to = sanitarium
From Carroll. she afterward learned
Owens learned all the details OF he
property. The treatment OF Carroll a
the sanitarium was not effective an
marriage to him.
Owens continued to visit her. Whe
she had some business for n lawys
owens introduced her to Fowler. A
Fowier's once she was introduced
two men, who at once became sutton
They bothered me almost to death.
. she said. when they were not trytn
to get me to marry them they were M
vislng me to trustee my property I'M
their hands and 10 away for n res
which they said needed. I didn't, ar
finally made them understand thi
= they were not getting ahead any"
n Then came the incident of Aug.
| when Viola Dawson confessed In Gei
| erai Sessions to forging Mrs. Carroll
name and was allowed to 20 on a su
pended sentence at Mrs. Carrolrs r
. quest. Owens had been greatly Int
y ested In the girls case. APPARENT
;, During the court proceedings he intr
II duced Mrs. Carroll to Alderman Davl
When the girl was discharged owen
the police say. took her to a Broa
way office, where they met Davis. q
= | went with him to Lawyer Fowler
!, office. There the afYidavit was dra,
up. Mrs. Carroll understood It W
forty-two pages long and WAS We
N | scandalous.
PRETTY YOUNG WARD IS AIS
ARRESTED.
The police arrested Viola Dawson
: No. 1857 Fifty-fourth street. Brookly
o before daylight to-day. She told the
q | that there WAS nothing IN the documer