New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
HER BONDS WOOED
AWAY BY POETRY
SpinSter FicrCee Accuses
Silver Tongued Doctor
of Interior Motives.
TRANSFER CUTS
ROMANCE SHORT
Physician Refused to Return
Them by COusigning Her to
Warm Home"

Sublime and superlative was the
prose poetry that Or. Robert F. Clarke,
Of Poughkeepsic. poured into the will
ing ears Of Miss Amy Perkins. Of 80
East Thirtieth Street. Il mattered not
that the physician was sixty years old
younger She was a spinster; he 80
he said in his poetic way. was lonesome
without lifemate.
When they first met they were living
at the Thirtieth Street address. II was
p boarding house romance Like many
another romance its d8nouement was
staged in the Supreme Court.
Ii is not breach of promise suit.
Miss Perkins has no desire 10 make
Or. Clarke pay for her anguish of
mind. or even force him TO keep his
promise 10 her All she wants IL TO get
back three 81, 900 bonds of the United
States Rubber Company which. Miss
Perkins says. the doctor obtained from
her under fraudulent representations,
including tales of a large fortune, a
large estate at Poughkeepsie, and
practice among the elite. All the fut-
ure Mrs. Clarke would have TO do would
be "to ride around in your automobile.
dressed in silks and decorated with dia-
monds and give orders 10 your retinue
Of servants"
Sad TO narrate. these things came not
TO pass. When Miss Perkins decided
that the whole thing was only night
mare and the golden words OF her
elderly worshipper had won the bonds
from her, she demanded the return of
her property This was refused and
she herself consigned "to the warm
home where all abandon hope who
enter"
Doctor Free as Air"
The romance began with Miss Per-
kins as a patient and the physician
Miss Perkins is an English woman and
inherited property IN England She
has studied at the Boston Conservatory
Of Music and has also done some writ
ing.
Last October saw the romance begin
The affable and poetic physician told
the receptive patient that he was sin
gle free as the air" as he expressed
II. Miss Perkins told DR. Clarke of her
faith in spiritualism; that the couple
could become kindred souls.
DR.. Clarke's specially was curing the
ills Of the human body by directing and
dissectine the preconceiyed thoughts OF
others and controlling their minds in
obedience to his will and applying an
infallble remedy 70 eceh sickness or
disease"
On October 20. amid the romantic
boarding house setting, the doctor and
Miss Perkins agreed to become husband
and wife. Being a man OF wealth. 1t
was immaterial 10 him whether he set
tied in Chicago or in Pasadena. On
October 80 he induced Miss Perkins TO
intrust the three bonds to him, she
says. She was TO go out 10 Pasadena,
where he would meet her and make
her his wife. The physician made a
will. making Miss Perkins his sole bene-
fciary. He also made out note for
$4,000 in her favor.
Miss Perkins went TO Pasadena. Dr.
Clarke did not. When his neglect 70
meet his hancee in California was men
toned 10 him, he refused TO marry her.
Also. he refused to give back the bonds,
saws Miss Perkins. Miss Perkins now
alleges that the venerable love lorn
physician has no estate in Poughkeep--
sic. that he has a wife, that his viii
and note are worthless and were made
only 20 conceal "the fraud and impo-
sition practised upon the plaintiff.