The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-03
GIRL WIDOW MUST
TESTIFY AGAINST
HER own FATHER
lrate Parent Shot SoninlaW
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. ", Dec. Unique
In dramatic situations that murder
trials brought about is that which villa
arise when William ". Cleary, the DEM
ocratic boss and town clerk of Haver-
straw. comes to trial early next month
for the killing of his 1S-year -old SON
inlaw. Eugene NJ. Newman. w.
az lies in the narrowing position In
which the dead lads girl wife. Cleary's
daughter, will find herself. To appear
upon the witness stand in defense of
her father involves the necessity OF
asperstng 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
and be forced to give evidence against
him. obviously carries with it poignant
Distress. the torture of filial affection.
Newman was shot dead in Clearys
office last July.
Boy and Girl Lovers.
Eugene Newman and Anna Marie
Cleary were first attracted to each
other when he was in knickerbockers-
q lad OF IA, and she at 16 had just 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
ly 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 .. 1851
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 they did
not ask TO be allowed to marry imme-
diately. They said they knew they
were too young and were willing to
wait There was q difference of re-
ngion. But as far as can be learned,
that was never advanced by Cleary,
the politician, as an objection TO the
final mating of the pair,
Her Father InnpiaeabIe.
There was much talk Immediately
after the shooting that the Newman
lad had been inclined to be wild and
e wastrel, but against those asper4
sions there arose a storm OF protest
from the friends Of the dead lad.
They pictured him as a genial, low
able, rather ingenious youth, and
pointed out that as soon as he grad
uated from high school in Haverstraw
he struck out for himself and secured
q 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 Clearys own
affectionate letters planning their mar
riage. 49,. s... -. .... ....
When he did return 1t was to meet
the implacable opposition of the big
town boss. But the 20-year-o girl
and the 1S-year- old boy decided that
thew had now waited long enough
that four years of courtship which still
found them steadfast in affection was
a test sufficiently long to prove that
their attachment was no mere whimsi-
cal experience Of early youth. They
went to Hoboken, N. J., and there the
Rev. Frederick A. LIGHT married them
on Saturday, July IS. The young couple
left, asking the clergyman to forward
their marriage certificate by mail.
Did cleary Known
A holly fought question at Cleary's
trial will be: Did Cleary know when
young Newman entered his office On
Thursday, July %. that the youth made
Attorney Gagan declares that the proos
will be forthcoming that Cleary did
know this. Gagan says that Mrs.
Cleary on the morning OF the tragedy
had called up young Newman at his
grandmother's home in New York and
told him to come to Haverstraw ami
see Cleary and be sure to bring with
him the marriage certificate.
1t Is declared that the boy went to
Hayerstraw that day in full confidence
that the way had at last been paved
for him to be received into the good
graces of his fatherinlaw, that Cleary,
ia the face of the fact of the marriage,
meant to withdraw future opposition
and was ready to extend a friendly
hand to his daughters tus md. Even
the three friends of Cleary who sat In
the boss's office that afternoon have
said that the youth entered cleary's
presence with a smile on his face ard
his hand extended 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 }
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
tho compartments.
Suddenly Cleary wheeled and faced
the boy. his eyes glaring, 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 drop
ped to the floor. .... ..N.
Clcary'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 insanity;
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 was suffering
from acute alcoholism. He protests.
from his cell, they say, that he knew
that the lad and his daughter had been
married. .
The state declares that Cleary was
prompted by vicious spite against the
boy because he had overriden CleatS's
opposition and outwitted him by mar
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