Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-01-31
Out on Bail

later employed here as an uDder
takers helper following his arrest OF
on two charges-on of obtaining S3(
by means of a worthless check an6
the other of illicit cohabitation-has
been released on cash bail in the sun
OF S4O0, to appear here before Justice
May. Levy was arrested Friday al
Manassas.
The accused was married last De.
cember to Miss Lillian Williams OF
Capon Road. Prior to that time he
lived here with highly esteemed wo-
man, who passed as his wife, by
whom he had five children. He now
denies that he was married to this
woman, who. together with her chill
dren, left here recently and is said to
be prostrSted as the result OF the
mans conduct.
Levy was brough there Friday even
ing by Chief of Police Lipscomb, who
later went with him by auto to Capon
Roads, where Levy procured from his
bride the $500 necessary to procure
his temporary release. The officer re-
turned to Stanton yesterday at 4 a.
M, leaving Levy at Capon Road.
Stanton, Va, Jan. 27.-The Staun-
ton Daily Leader, referring to the
now noted Levy case, says.
An act approved March II. 1910,
provides penalty of fine not ex-
ceeding $4,000 or Imprisonment in
Jail not to exceed sixty days or hard
labor on the roads not to exceed sixty
days, or both, upon any person who
shall neglect to provide for any child
under IA years of age of age of which
he shall be the parent or guardian,
or subject any such child to vicious
or immoral influences.
Such in briefs the law of Virginia.
1t has been claimed here that no
statute could be found under which
Malcolm ]. Levy could be punished
for bringing helpless children into the
world as outcasts and then DESERVING
them and their mother and marrying
another woman.
THE CHARGES AGAINST LEVY.
The charge of Illicit cohabitation
lies against Levy, on which he will
probably plead guilty and accept a
fine of several hundred dollars. He
cannot pe imprisoned on this charge
if he pays his fine. The charge OF
larceny will hardly be sustained.
But there is hardly man in Staun-
ton whose sense of decency is not out
ragged atthe conduct of the miscreant
and the Leader believes that he can
be made to pay at least measure of
expiation for his crime against moral
ity and humanity. Let the proper
authorities look into this. It is not
for the newspapers to make out the
case
A TALE OF TEARS AND WOE.
Levy may go free and in short
time all will De forgotten and he will
be left to live his life with his new
love Or casting her off as he has done
two other women. But what of the
mother of his e-than-fatherless
children?
Alpha Harris could tale unfold
that would wiring tears from a hear
of stone. How, as a young girl, she
ran off with Levy and expecting to
hear the glad tidings of wedding bells,
she was met with the story that her
prospective bridegroom was already
married and was then suing for
divorce, but would set her to rights
as his wife as soon as he was free.
Ard in this way he put her off from
time to time. When they returned
from the west to visit her people, she
coald not tell the awful truth.
ALPHA'S BOLD FRONT.
With bleeding heart, though a
bold front, she playing the part of a
happy wife. And in this way, as man
and wife, they were everywhere &C
cepted for nearly fifteen years.
Their first child was born over
twelve years ago. He is a fine look
ing boy, now, doomed to hang his
head in shame the rest If his days, So
is the little girl of ten, another
about eight, and the other less than
four.
A miserable story! Far too miser-
able 10 make pleasant reading, and
the Leader only intends publishing
enough of it to see that justice is done.
The man is free, but should he be?
The woman who now signs herself
Mrs. M. j. Levy, but who was Miss
Lyllian Williams, of a prominent
Shenandoah Valley family, claiming
to her friends that Levy told her all his
past life; that he had married in early
youth, and that while his wife wa.
living had lived as a man and wife
with a woman here, but did he tell
her all?
She has expressed uneasiaess abou
her marriage; that will probably hold
The first wife is dead, the sec. nd de
serted and the third giving of he
means to furnish bail for the man whit
has brought but shame and misery tt
the first two and can bring hardl.
less to the other. And little sym
patty will she get from her fellow be
ings.
Public opinion is thoroughly arous
ed in Staunton and it wants to sc
justice done without any more trif.n
or favoritis m.
/ Miss Martha Allen Dead
Miss Martha Allen died at the hon
oil her niece, Mrs. Jacob ShultZ,