Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
New York Governor Calls
Hopkins Charges
BIackmaiI.
WORK OF HIS ENEMIES
Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall
Accused of Being Behind
Conspiracy.

Gettysburg, Pa, July S.-Governor
Sulzer of New York yesterday after
noon issued an interview in connection
with the suit for breach of promise
filed against him by Miss Mignon Hop
kins, cloak model. in Philadelphia
Tuesday. The interview follows:
"Yes," Governor Sulzer said yester.
day at Gettysburg, Il read about that
Hopkins frame-up in Philadelphia.
There is nothing to it l am afraid OF.
The whole thing looks like poor con-
spiracy and seems to be stale and
| fshy
THE fact is, the suit Of this Hop
kins woman is blackmail, and more, 1t
| is instigated by my political enemies
and Is part of the plot of Boss Muir
ply and his political conspirators to
/ discredit me because they cannot use
me for their nefarious schemes to loot
the state of New York.
| 'If l were willing to be Murphy's
kind of a governor, no one would have
heard of this or other matters he Is
using about me. That goes without
saying. But because l am fighting
for good government, and fighting for
direct nominations Mr.. Murphy and
his hirelings are doing everything in
their power to destroy me politically.
MANY THREATS MADE.
"They have been threatening me
ever since became governor because
I would not be a tool and a proxy
governor
81 defled them all to do their worst.
Their efforts to injure me with homes.
people will be abortive. shall go
forward without fear. l never did
thing in my life of which am
ashamed.
, Sufficient to say, that knew this
Hopkins woman years ago. l was a
| friend of her family In it's distress.
But deny emphatically that ever
agreed to marry her; that. Lever
wronged her; that / ever lived with
} her or that l ever held her out to be
my wife.
Miss Hopkins sued me in New
/ York for breach of promise some time
: after l married, about six years ago.
} She could not sustain her charges and
admitted she brought the suit for ul-
terror purposes.
That case was settled, and my
lawyer has a general release from this
woman to me. My reason for settling
then was on account of the precarious
condition of Mrs. Sulzer."
YOUNG WOMAN TALKS,
Miss Hopkins has retained Theodore
Cuyler Patterson, an attorney of
standing at the Philadelphia bar, to
represent her, and yesterday he swore
to an affidavit accusing Sulzer of hay-
ing lived with Miss Hopkins for sew
eral years at various places in New
York city.
In an affidavit Miss Hopkins de-
clares that she has been seriously dis
tressed and affected on account of
broken contract with William Sulzer
of New York.
She states that she became engaged
to him on Sept. Is, 1909 at. on
that date. he asked her 10 a ha.ors hts
wiie and to kee6 the enraeen.( ~
secret until he could marry her
she AYERS that she complied v,f,i
MS request, and lived with him xon
time TO time and for peris.l of sew.
eral years, and accopegsnied him on
trips and lived NTH him in varions
hotels, and tnat he introduced her y,
his friends as his wife.
Miss Hopkins then declares that sba
was much distressed to find that IN
: Jan. 8, 1908. William Sulzer was MAJ.
ried IN Atlantic City. N. j., to anotbar
woman, and that since that time sha
has not seen or heard from the mar
5 who' she claims. promised to make bar
g his wife. her