Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-26
MAY PROSECUTE
MRS. POLLARD
County Authorities Defer Ac-
ton on Confession of "Poison
Pen" User.
special to the Evening Star.

special 10 the Evening SUR.
ELIZABETH, Oct. 26.-Prosecutor
Alfred A. Stein still is undecided to-
day whether he will lay the confess
sion of Miss Anna j. Pollard before
the Union county grand jury or
await developments by the postal au-
thorities.
AS told in Saturdays Evening Star,
Mrs. Pollard, wife of Nelson Pollard,
confessed that she has written num-
Der of "poison pen" letters since her
acquitaal last March.
Mr. Stein said the letters confined
matter that cannot be printed and
even TO include them in an affidavit
and force these persons attacked to
come into court would subject them
to notorlety of such an unpleasant
character that they strongly object
to it.
my position is most delicate.
have the confession and it was OBJ
tanned while Mrs. Pollard's husband
and her attorney were in the Court
House, and they had access to the
room in which the examination was
being made. This will deprive her
of the defense that she was forced
to make the confession while under
duress.
"Of course she may repudiate the
confession if she goes before a jury,
but | believe it will not be difficult to
establish its authSnticity, / was more
than five hours questioning Mrs.
Pollard before she admitted writing
the first letter. She continued to
make denials as each additional let
ter was shown her. but finally adj
mitted writing all that were shown
her."
1t was said last night on good au-
thority that Mrs. Pollard's confession
embraces admissions concerning at
least five letters. Social jealousy, Mr..
Stein said, caused Mrs. Pollard to
write the letters.
1t was learned today that Mrs. Pol
lard organized the Ladies' Aid So
ciety of the Christ Episcopal Church,
and became it's first president. She
was refused reelection. She also be-
came a member of the Colonial Danes
and the Daughters of the Revolution,
and members of those organizations
failed to give her more than passing
recognition.
Frank A. Butler, postofIice inspector
of the Philadelphia district, trapped
Mrs. Pollard by sending to her home
letters addressed to Mrs. Charles r.
Jones, who lives in the house adjoin-
ing that of Mrs. Pollard. These let
ters were kept In the Pollard home
and Butler obtained them as soon as
they were remailed, and alleges that
they contained matter that had been
added after they were first mailed.
The persons assailed, it was learned
today, have held no meeting yet. but
at least two of them are determined
that Mrs. Pollard shall be prosecuted,
and if Mr.. Stein does not bring the
confession before the Grand Jury to-
day they will appeal to the Federal
authorities.
Mrs. Pollard said last night to a
reporter for The Star: IL have moth
ing to say now. / shall have enough
to say at the proper time and place"
Mrs. Pollard was indicted and tried
last March for writing scurrilous let
ters, but was acquitted. The first OF
the new series of letters, which, it is
alleged, have been traced to Mrs.
Pollard, was received early in May. q
little more than month after she
was acquitted.