The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-09
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TIP FOLLOWED
BY OBSCENE NOTE
accusing Letter Came After
Warning From Mrs. Me-
Cready, Witness Declares
hrs. EVA WEINIGER ON
STAND FOR PROSECUTION
lays Missive Made References
to Matters Known Only to
Defendant

Mrs. Eva Weiniger a witness for
be prosecution in the case OF the gov
rnment against Mrs. Margaret Nc
ready. widow, of Ypsilanti, charg-
with having mailed obscene letters
score or more prominent citizens
that place, testified in the federal
burt before Judge Tuttle and jury.
tuesday morning. that. when Mrs.
cCready left for California on a
sit, she told the witness to watch
be mails"
At noon that day she testified.
here came an obscene letter address
b to her husband and containing mat
pr similar TO that in two other let
brs, also addressed to her husband,
hitch she had intercepted and kept
idden. The letters accused her OF
harital inhdelity. she said
Mrs Weiniger said that she
knew" when Mrs McCready made
bis remark, that another OF the let
prs would show up soon. She could
ot, however, assign any basis for
bis knowledge.
Intimating that Mrs. McCready
Frote the letters, Mrs. Weiniger tes-
fled. over the objection of the de-
ense, that the three. only one OF
hich her husband received. contain
u references TO happenings IN the life
the witness which were known TO
% one but Mrs. McCready.
On direct examination by District
ttorney Clyde l. Webster, Mrs. Vein
ger said that she had been chum
I Mrs. McCready for about three
ears, and that she had been with
er on different occasions when Mrs.
hcCready had entertained men call
re-, especially ed" Lease. Ypsilanti
veryman, She had also gone riding
gith Lease and Mrs. McCready. she
aid.
On cross-examination by Frank H..
he witness denied that she had wit
lessed any improper conduct by the
defendant. She said, too, that despite
he fact that she said she knew"
hat Mrs. McCready alone knew of
+ome OF the things mentioned in the
fetters received, she admitted that
|he did not cease to be friendly with
her. did not tell her husband OF her
Suspicions, and continued TO write to
Mrs. McCready, then lii California
She testified that FL Lease. with
whom, IL is alleged Mrs. McCready
|vas infatuated had told her, in Mrs.
presence, OF having been
put riding with Mrs. Lewis Kfrlian. a
triking blonde who was H. the court
room. and Mrs. Bisbee
After her husband received one or
| he three obscene letters written TO
him, Mrs. Welniger said she turned
bver TO him the others, which she had
Intercepted. She said she told him
her suspicious of Mrs. McCready. She
fould not explain, however, why her
husband went TO James Clark and en-
gagged In a violent quarrel about the
letters
A letter written by Mrs. Weiniger
10 Mrs. McCready while the latter
was in California contained the infor-
mation that he had done so. however,
Ind that Clark had denied having
to do with writing the OBJ
scene notes, saying. You probably
won't get any more Of 'em while Mrs.
McCready is out OF town" The let
ter advises Mrs. McCready TO forget
about Jim Clark, because he doesn't
love you"
Clark is the man who at first had
been suspected Of writing the letters
which form the basis OF the charge
against Mrs. McCready.
Mrs. Weiniger proved very unsat-
isfactory witness, her memory desert
ing her at critical times and her voice
being SO low that Judge Tuttle was