Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-11-11
WRIGHT, ACCUSED OF
LOVE PLOT, DENIES
A ChiteCt Makes COunteTChsr[es
Following Those Of Mrs.
Nellie Breen.
Chicago Daily News)
(From El iday's Daiiy.)


complaint which. told to federal officials
caused thern to begin Mann act liz
vestigation in which Mr.. Wright and a
we'll known sculptress were central
figures. The Mann act charges were
made by Mrs. Nellie Breen, formerly a
housekeeper of Wright's Spring Green
wis. home, in which Mrs. Mamah
Borthwick Cheney and three of her
children we're tlain by a crazed negro
employe as tragic ending of the ''love
hegira" of Wright and Mrs. Cheney.
AS q result Of evidence presented by
Clarence S. Darrow the federal officials
followed up their white slave law inves-
tiQation with one which centers about
alleged violations of the postal laws.
Nothing in the Charges.
MRS. Breen was domestic in my
employ - said Mr.. Wright, land was
disgruntled because of her discharge.
The woman she names in the letter has
been staying at the home of myself
and mother and there ia absolutely moth
ing in any charges she may have made
to federal authorities
Attorney Darrow took several letters
received by Wright recently to the fed
eral authorities.
THE letters stated in part that Mrp.
Breen had been approached by federal
officials and by newspapers, and thet
she was trying to put them eff -th' t
she wanted some confederation for so
doing Mr.. barrow said He denied
that the women asked for money.
L arrow Sees Some Jealously.
In my opinion, he said, what she
wanted was to run the house. | THU k
that there was some jealously in the
matter,
Mr.. Wright said the scrulptress in
question still is at Spring Green.
''She is widow and has grown chill
dren. he said.
Story Mrs. Breen Told
Mrs Breen story is:
II went to work at Spring Green for
MIR. Wrigh with the express under
standing that there would be no repe-
tition of the Mamah Borthwick Cheney
affair. Everything went along we'll I'M
TIL Mr.. Wright sent to Paris and asked
the sculptures to come to his home In
Spring Green and cheer him in his sor-
row. His mother and the Wright chill
dren were at bis home when she came
and they Immediately resented the Wis
it and left. Several times | stopped
the sculptures from going into Mr..
Wright's room, and when it was an
nounced that she would be mistress of
the home, left Wright and the sculp-
tress went on trip to California last
summer, she as his nurse. She is of
Russian descent, lived in Paris and
came to Spring Green at the solicitation
of Wright.
Inquiry Along Taree Lines.
The story told by Mrs. Breen is re-
ported receiving the attention of three
separate departments of the United
States government in Chicago. Hinton
&. Clabaugh, superintendent of the in
vestigation bureau of the department
of Justice, has the charges under in
vestigation, while Michael L. Igoe, as
sistant United States district attorney,
is passing upon the evidence to decide
if it is worth while to take the matter
before the grand jury. The immigration
department. also is reported looking
ntO feature of the charges.
No definite action has yet been de-
termined uLon by the government 1t
is declared it is important that the gov
eminent learn whether the woman in
question is an American. 1t is declared
by her that she is an American and she
has offered to submit certain proofs to
the government.
(Fr0m Saturdays Daily
The bottom fell out of the Fran k
Lloyd Wright Mann act investigation to-
day when one of the government Off
cials who has taken part in the investi-
cation told reporter for The Daily
News the status of the investigation.
1--WE have sifted thoroughly the
charges made by Nellie Breen," said
the official, and have also made thor
ough investigation of the counterchsrges
scanning the evidence presented, and
we cannot find any violation of the
law.
THE main evidence so far Is that
Miss Breen prevented the sculptress
mentioned in the case from going into
Wright's room.
'The government cannot say
who shall or who shall no
go to the home of Mr.. or Mrs
Wright, hig mother, for visit unless