The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-04

clan, as an objection to the final mat
ing of the pair
Her Father TmpIacabIe.
There was much talk Immediately
/ after the shooting that the Newman
| lad had been inclined to be wild and
| a WastreI, but against those asper-
| Sions there arose a storm of protest
from the friends of the dead lad. They
pictured him as a genial, lovable,
| rather ingenious youth, and pointed
out that as soon as he graduated from
| high school in Haverstraw he struck
out for himself and secured a posi-
ton as clerk in a Southern hotel. And
| his father came forward to declare
| that what had brought him pack to
Haverstraw were Miss Cleary's own
affectionate letters planning their
marriage.
When he did return it was to meet
the implacable opposition of the big
town boss ut the twenty-year- old
girl and the eighteen-year- boy de-
cided that they had now waited long
enough-that four years of courtship
which still found them steadfast in af-
lection was a test sufficiently long
to prove that their attachment was
no more whimsical experience of early
youth. They went to Hoboken, n.
J., and there the Rev. Frederick a.
LIGHT married them on Saturday, July
1s. The young couple left asking the
clergyman to forward their marriage
certificate by mail.
Did Cleary Know?
A holly fought question at C1eary's
trial will be: Did Cleary know when
young Newman entered his office on
n
made his daughter legal wife?' Dis
trict-Attorney Gagan declares that
he proof will be forthcoming that
~,leary did know this. Gagan says
hat Mrs. Cleary on the morning Of the
ragedy had called up young Newman
It his grandmother's home in New |
York and told him to come to Hav-
erstraw and see Cleary and be sure to |
bring with him the marriage certifi- |
cate.
It is declared that the boy went to |
Haverstraw that day in full confidence
shat the way at last had been paved |
for him to be received into the good |
graces Of his father-in- law, that !
Cieary, in the face of the fact of the |
marriage, meant to withdraw future
opposition and was ready to extend a |
friendly hand to his daughters hus-
DanO. 6V0n the three IrlGnQS OF |
t2leary who sat in the boss's office
that afternoon have said that the
youth entered Clearys presence with
a smile on his face and his hand ex-
tended in friendliness.
The Tragedy.
The Boss, according to the story the
state intends to unfold to the jury,
nodded CURLY to the youth to take a
chair and then arose and walked to
a safe at the side of the room. His
back was toward the boy as he swung
open the safe door and cropped into
one Of the compartments.
Suddenly C1eary wheeled and faced
the boy, his eyes glazing, his cheeks
white. his lips snarling. The lad saw
with horror the revolver Cleary held
and tried to rise from his chair. But
he never did. For in rapid SUCCESSION
four bullets entered his body. He did
not utter sound. His small body
sagged slowly sideways and then
dropped to the floor.
Cleary's friends say that his wife
had made such revelations to him re-
garding his daughters condition on
the night previous to the murder that ;
he was maddened to the point of in ,
sanity; that he left his New York City I
home for Haverstraw the morning of ,
The tragedy in his shirt sleeves; that |
worry over his daughter had caused !
him to drink heavily for weeks, SO
that at the time OF the shooting he
vas suffering from acute alcoholism.
He protests, from his cell, they say,
hat he knew that the lad and his
daughter had been married.
The state declares that Cleary was
prompted by vicious spite against the
- i. \
opposition and outwitted him by mar
-ying the boss's daughter.
Young Widow In Quandary.
On this crucial point, of course, the
testimony of young Mrs. Newman
night prove important. In her tragic
Iuandary she has said of her problem:
ST dare say my father was so furious >
o think Gene and had run away and
,een married that he absolutely lost