The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-29
THREATENED LIFE
UNLESS SHE WOULD
LIE To SAVE HIM
Third Wife of Lord Blake
Tells of Her Relations
With Alleged Biganist
TELEPHONE TALK
DISCLOSES TRUTH
Miss Grace Brown, of East Clay
Street, Relates Story of How
She Learned of Other
Marriages

Seated in the humble but well-kept
and comfortable home of her mother,
at ToS East Clay street, Miss Grace
Brown, one OF the three victims OF
Philip G. (alias "Lord") Blake, told
last night the story of her unfortunate
experience with ale alleged higamtst
His seductive wooing, his proposal
of marriage, made in ten cent thea
ter. their trip to Washington and TO
Hyattsvilie. Maryland. the supposed
marriage, his efforts TO keep their
relations secret, the real marriage in
st. Peters church, his threats to
make this another Beatde case
the whole story OF seduction, faith
1essness, bigamy. discovery and ar
rest-all were related at length with
many pauses due to embarrassment,
but clearly and with evident sincerity.
Feared For Her Safety.
Miss Brown received the reporters
and Sergeant Wrenn, who has been
at work on the case to whose efforts,
partly, is due the fact that his lord
ship now rests In Jail awaiting grand
Jury action, in the living room OF
their home. With her was her moth
err, who was born and reared In
Louisiana. and who remained In the
room while her daughter told her
y
the truth and the right
Mrs Brown declared at the close
of the interview that she felt as II
removed from the shadow of great
danger when Lord" Blake was ar
rested. as she had feared for her
daughters safety for days, especially
after ne mad told her over the phone
that ne intended ito make this an
other Beattie case" and told OF his
attempts one night to enuce her
daughter into the hallway, an at
tempt which met with failure through
her vigilance.
Miss Brown received the reporters
politely and with evident reluctance
began her story. As she proceeded,
however, the memory of the manner
In which she had been treated was
TOO much for her. and she lost her
diffideut manner and completed her
story as II glad TO relieve her feel
ings Prefacing her remarks with the
statement that she is twenty years
old. and educated at st. Joseph's
school and attended st. Peters
church, she sketched her life at Fred
erickshurG. told OF her employment at
"a Ave and ten cent store here. OF her
employers willingness to recommend
her TO the managers of the Richmond
hotel. and of her first days as cashier
at that hosiery, where she met
Blake.
The Acquaintance Begins.
This Blake (she called him that
throughout her story told me that he
was assistant manager of the hotel
she said "a few days after I first
went on duty on March Sth. Shortly
thereafter he asked me II he might
walk home with me that night. and
thinking him gentleman. and know
ing that though my mother has al
ways been particular with whom /
keep company, she would offer no OBJ
fections, consented. little later he
invited me to go to the theater with
him, and / went that night and on
several other occasions
"On the night Of March 25th Blake
and / were attending a vaudeville
show, and while the lights were out,
preparatory TO the beginning OF the
moving picture performance, he whis
pered to me that he loved me.
Grace" he said, you and I get
along we'll together. and love you,
why can't we get married2 / told
him that we would think IL over, and
the next day we became engaged. On
March s0th he proposed that we go
10 Washington and be married. We
left on the 1901 train. Leaving the
train in Washington he told me to
wait while he went to get the license.
On his return he held piece of paper
in his hand, which did not look like
a license to me. but l only got a brief
glance at it, and as he, immediately
suggested that We go to Hyattsyille TO-
be married at his mothers church, I
gave no further thought to the mat
ter"
Was Not Suspicious.
Here Miss Brown paused and blush
you see" she said, as II fearful
lott IA n
not been as careful as she might have
been, II loved Philip and was not
suspicious"
She then continued with her MARIA
tive telling of the ride to Hyattsville
on the cars, of the supposed mar
riage by Rev" A. D. Carr. and the
return to Richmond, where she Inn
mediateIy went back to work at the
hotel.
This Blake did not seem to care
for my mother to know of our mar
riage, as / supposed it to be-" she
went on, land once or twi"e asked me
if was going te tell. Ny reF-lr al.
each OF these occasions was that II
was his duty to tell her This he
never did and l began to get uneasy
as the weeks and months passed"
Here Miss Browns mother took up
the story, telling when she first be-
came suspicious AHA OF writing TO her
husband, VIII was in Nor-h Carolina
SIZE questioned he daughte-. she said
who showed her the marriage ccrtfi-
cate. Immedia tely her oldest broth
er declared:
THAT is bogus certificate"
This decided her to write to her
husband, who came home. This was
In December. Mr.. Brown questioned
Blake, who told a rambling story that
did not tally with the'account of the
supposed marriage as given by his
daughter. Mr.. Brown thereupon ad-
dressed a letter to ''Dr. A. d. Carr
Hyattsville, Nd" asking for particu-
lars as to the marriage. The letter
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