Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-10

! Crozier Lewis $500 on q note In 1910 on
which he had been unable to collect.
Peterson today put into the Ananias
club every one who has denied any part
Of the story OF his life that he told yes
terday. This includes Mrs. Cord. widow
of the murdered man, and Mrs. Josephine
Copperneld, OF g21 North Broad street,
sister Of Mamie sullivan, in whose mur-
der Peterson igured as a witness In 1895
at Paterson. n. j.
"If Mrs Copperheld continues to olrcu-
late such slanderous stories about ne"
said Peterson, deliberately, w~en her
statement that he was arrested In the
Sullivan murder was put up to him, ''1'll
take LEGAL action against her. ! know I'm
I'm jail hut even a man In jail has rights,
and she Is mistaken II she thinks she can
say anything about me that is not true
and get away with IL.
''she lies when she says l was arrested
in that case,
INSISTS THERE Is WOMAN.
AS for Mrs Cord. she is mistaken. She
ought to know, and | am positive that
there was another woman with whom her
husband was infatuated.
why this strange woman called up
only a few days before Cord disappeared,
and answered the telephone. She talked
to him for some time, and he was quite
nffectionatc with her"
peterson = Wllt VIII bNlCh W lAlll Atkdifi-
less Of the outcome Of the Investigation
being conducted by Prosecutor William J.
Kraft, of Camden County.
Mrs Peterson, shocked and stunned by
the revelations made by her husband in
an hours talk with reporters, said today
that she has not lost faith in him.
II do not care what the police bring
forth against him." she sobbed. 81 am his
wife. II is my duty to remain loyal to
him. and have not lost faith. If neces-
sary l will go to work myself to raise
money for his defense.
He has been a good husband. and l
shall not desert him"
KEPT WIFE IN DARK
More light on the curiously blended
character of Peterson was thrown by his
wife, who is still staying at the home
of a friend near Shibe Park. In all
the Il years of their married life, ac-
cordng to her story, she never knew that
he had been arrested although he spent
II months of this period in the Essex
County iail.
Peterson is man of iron" to the
Camden authorities They have not been
able in nine days to shake his nerve or
poise. Occasionally he has shown slight
traces of impatence, but he has never
lost his head Efforts to surprise him with
an upA huNSNAOhi biOhBhA
from him.
To his wife, Peterson always has been
mysterious. She is now more puzzled than
ever. When the full story of his life, as
told by Peterson himself, was placed in
her hands she read II from beginning to
end, absorbed and surprised. Most of it
was absolutely new to her.
He told me he was going away on a
business trip about 1902" she said today.
He was gone IL months. When he re-
turned I could not make him tell me
where he had been. He always turned
my questions aside with a Joke"
This was the year, according to Peter
sons own admission that he spent IL
months in Jail for passing worthless
checks at Newark. N. ]. His wife also
said she never knew of his arrest in
Clearfield County, Pa, or IN this city, or
at Paterson, in connection with the mur-
der of Mamie Sullivan In 1896
THE authorities seem to doubt that
my husband washed some clothing the
Monday afternoon Mr.. Cord was mur-
dered." said Mrs. Peterson. "It was not
the first time. He always helped me
about the kitchen. He thought nothing
of doing any kind of housework to help
me out.
He is not guilty of this crime He