The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-03
GIRL WIDOW MUST
TESTIFY AGAINST
HER OWN FATHER
lrate Parent Shot SoninIaW
Who EIoped With Daughter,
When Lad Came to
Ask Forgiveness.
TO PLEAD DRINK MADNESS
Young Mrs. Newman In Pitiful
Dilemma AS She Faces Sc
quel Growing Out of
Her Sinful Folly.
TO PLEAD DRINK MADNESS

Haverstraw. N. Y, Dec. 1.-Uniaue
In dramatic situations that murder
trials brought about is that which will
arise when William V. Cleary. the dem
ocratic boss and town clerk of Hayer-
straw, comes to trial early next month
for the killing of his 1~S-year-old SON
inlaw, Eugene NJ. Newman.
1t lies in the narrowing position in
which the dead lads girl-wife, Cleary,s
daughter, Will II herself. TIC appear
upon the witness stand in defense of
her father involves the necessity of
aspersing the memory of her youthful
husband: to ignore her fathers des-
perate plight and remain away from
the court room, or TO take the stand
ana be forced TO give evidence against
him. obviously carries with it poignant
distress, the torture of filial affection.
Newman was shot dead in Clearv's
office last July.
Boy and Girl Lovers.
Eugene Newman and Anna Marie
Cleary were first attracted to each
other when he was in knickerbockers-
a lad of IA, and she at IS had lust as
sumed the dignity of shoe top skirts.
Both Were good looking, lively and
spirited. There was nothing of the
foolish languishing or morbid senti-
mentality about their love. They frank
" admitted their attachment to their
group of boy and girl friends ' and
went on actively in all the games,
sports and dances and other entertain
ments in Haverstraw.
The only shadow on it all was
Cleary,s attitude. He didn't like the
boy. There wasn't the objection Of
their being so youthful, for thew did
not ask to be allowed to marry imme-
diately. They said they knew thew
were too young and We're willing to
Walt. There was a difference of re-
liglon. But as far as can be learned,
mat was V advanced by Cleary,
mai mating of the pair.
Her Father impIacabIe.
There was much ak Immediately
after the shooting that the Newman
lad had been inclined to be wild and
9 wastrel, but against those asper-
sloEs there a storm of protest
from the friends of the dead lad,
They pictured him as a genial, low
able, rather ingenious youth, ana
pointed out that as soon as he grad
uated from high school in HaverstraW
he struck out for himself and secured
a position as clerk in a southern hotel.
And his father came forward TO de-
clare that what had brought him back
to HaVerstraw were Miss Cleary's own
aifectionate letters planning their mar
riage.
When he did return it was to meet
the lmp1acable opposition of the big
town boss. But the 2~0-year-old girl
and the ~1S-year-old boy decided that
the" had now waited long enough
mat tour of courtship which still
found them steadfast in affection. was
a test sufficiently long to prove that
thelf attacnnent was no mere whimsi-
cal experience of early youth. They
went to Hoboken, N. J., and there the
Key. Frederick A. LIGHT married them
on Saturday, July IS. The young couple
left, asking the clergyman to forward
thelr marriage certificate by mail.
Did Cleary Know?
A hotly fought question at Cleary's
trial will be: Did Cleary know when
young Newman entered his office On
Thursday, July %, that the youth made
ms daughter a legal wife?' District
Attorney Gagan declares that the proof
VIII pc Forthcoming that Cleary did
know this Gagan says that Mrs.
Cleary on h morning of the tragedy
had called up young Newman at his
F~randmother's home in New York and
toid MN to come to Hayerstraw and
see Cleary and be sure to bring with
MN the marriage certificate.
1t IS declared that the boy went to
Haverstraw that day in full confidence
that the way had at last been paved
for him to be received into the good
graces of his f~atherinlaw, that Cleary,
In the face of the fact of the marriage, |
meant to withdraw future opposition
ana was ready to extend a friendly
to his daughters hus and. Even
the three friends of CIeary who sat in
the boss's office hat afternoon have
SAD that the youth entered Cleary's
presence with a smile on his face ard
ms hand extended in friendliness.
The boss, according to the story the
state intends to unfold to the jury, |
nodded CURLY to the youth to take a
nT1 jonr ot,cGa.opI .yyrD Had fn ., /
safe at the side of the room. His back
was toward the boy as he swung open
safe door and CROPPED into one of
compartments.
suddenly Cleary wheeled and faced
the boy. his eyes g~laring, his cheeks
with horror the revolver Cleary he'd.
and tried to rise from his chair. But
ne never did. For in rapid succession
our bullets entered his body. He did
not utter a sound. His small body
sagged slowly sideways and then drop
PED to the floor.
Cieary's friends say that his wife
lad made such revelations 20 him re-
sardlng his daughters condition on the
niSht previous to the murder that he
vas maddened to the point of insanity;
he left his New York city homo
or Hayefstraw the morning of the
tragedy in his shirt sleeves; that worry
oVer his daughter had caused him to
rink heavily for weeks, so that at the
line of h shooting he was suffering
rom acute alcoholism. He protests,
rom his cell, they say, that he knew
nat the lad and his daughter had been
married.
h state declares that Cleary was
prompted by vicious spite against the
10Y because he had overriden Clea:S's
opposition and outwitted him by mar
wing the boss's daughter.