The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-12

Mrs.. w. n. Ewards. the Bride, and
Miss Ada M. Cox, the ereaeh-of.
Promise Girl.
CHICAGO, H., Dec. I2.--'I will
ruin him socially. mentally. phys
iealiy and financially"
Such was the threat attributed to
Ada NJ. Cox. stenographer. against
William Rufus Edwards. St Paul
iumborman.
''She has made good" declares
Mrs Edwards. the beautiful young
bride Of the man indicted ms q
white SLAYER"
William Rufus Edwards. his bride
says. IL n wreck In a private sana
tarium In Hayden Springs. Wash.
Here In his condition:
SociALLY--indictrnent under
the Mann act has ruined his
reputation.
mENTAllv--He 10 insane.
His mind 10 . blank.
PHYsicAILy--He 10 a ner.
vous wreck. In five months HE
heavy black hair has turned
snowy white.
FiNANCtALlv-Miss Cox 10
living on breach OF promise
judgment against him.
So have the words OF the prophet
esq., II they are hers. come true.
Then up from the miro OF scandal
rises a heroic figure--the faithful
young bride.
SHE WON'T BELIEVE 1T.
She married Edwards when tho
shame 81 an alleged violation of the
white slave Law was upon him.
Sharing the stigma OF crime
that the world views with upliftet
eyebrows. she has made his fishi
her fight
ehe faced the accusing wisncei
OF the people OF st. Paul with .
fortitude that was inspiring.
Instead OF avoiding the women oi
her city. she vent among them.
she appeared before the women,
clubs and told them what she be
iicved to DO the truth about her hus
band. They argued with hcr--aI
first.
Finally they were convinced.
Now no one In St Paul believes
Edwards guilty. Tho United Slater
district attorney refused to prose
cute the case.
Bu, the federal officials In Chi
cago thought different.
They would prosecute.
That In why Mrs. Edwards. o
niece OF Senator Moses Clapp OF
Minnesota. now has filed affidAviu
with tho federal officials. with the
request that tho Indictment be 20,
aside.
Tho case dates back to 1910
when Edwards. ms a single man
came 10 Chicago 10 close some deal
with the Mogg Coal company.
There he met Miss Cox, q stenog
rapher for Mogg.
After repeated refusals. she final
~ took lunch with Edwards.
A few weeks later Miss Cox went
10 81. Paul for a visit.
She testified Edwards sent her O
ticket from St. Paul.
His testimony was that he gnv,
her 81 for incidentais. but no ticket
Miss Cox told a story in he;
breach Of promise suit OF going TO
fashionable st. Paul restauran;
with Edwards. and waking up the
next morning In a disreputablt
house.
Edwards did not deny this, but
tho government needed evidence
that he paid her way 70 another
state to obtain the indictment.
Tho breach OF promise suit was
instituted In st. Paul before the
white slave Indictment was forth.
coming.
The case was remandcd for a new
trial.
In the second trial Miss Cox won
Judgment OF si7.500.
In the interval between the two
trials Charles DE Woody. an lnyesti.
gator for the department Of justice
looked into the case for its bearing
on the Mann act.
The United States district attor.
ney refused to prosecute.
II In alleged that DE Woody OBJ.
tanned a confession from Miss Coy
in which she told OF intimacy with
several other men before meeting
Edwards.
This. II ia said, for some reason
was suppressed.
This confession. II true, might
have defeated the woman's breach
OF promise suit.