New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-06
COE ASTONISHED
WHEN INFORMED
HE IS A FATHER
Denies in Alaska He Knew
Babe Was Coming When
He Fled from Boston.
WIFE'S FATHER ANGRY:
THREATENS VIOLENCE
No Move to Extradite Husband
and Bride Will Not Prose-
cute Him for DesertiOn.

The following dispatch was received
yesterday from a Tribune correspond
ent in Fairbanks, Alaska. where Henry
Clarke Coe, ir.. who deserted his wife
and unborn child in Boston on January
80 last, was found few day ago:
Fairbanks, Alaska, via Seattle, May
5.Henry Clarke Coe very much sur
prised when informed OF child. Denies
knowing vie was to become a mother.
Does not believe birth story
Goes story follows:
"My coming 70 Alaska was not sud
den plan. ! thought it out months be-
fore. 1t was due 10 personal differ
ences between Us. and the only way 10
settle il was to leave. | love my wife
and hone some time in the future to be
reunited to her. will never live in the
East but want the West. My future is
uncertain. but | will probably remain
here this summer
81 do not intend to return East for an
indefinite time.
"Tne trouble is like to roam around
and work for myself, have no social -
clnations and am therefore in the
wrong place at home. My folks tried to
get me 10 90 to college, but ! refused. |
have worked for myself ard intend to
keep doing so. | have written letter
10 my wife and she should have re-
ceived il a week ago. Ny folks know
where am and communicate with me.
81 think il unfair to say too much
which NAV worry them and my wife.
There is something wrong about the
report Of baby TO my wife. II such
a thing had been expected | would
have known. ! know that she has had
no baby
ut is evident that my boy is out Of
his mind" said Dr.. Henry Clarke Coe.
in his home, ct s West Seventy
Street, last night, after reading this
telegram. "SiX weeks before he vent
away my wife and | received letter
from him, in which ne said his wife
was with child, and told OF his great
happiness over It, There is no doubt in
my mind that he is mentally unbal-
anced. Will m j. Burns has this let
ter or | should be glad TO turn It over
for publication"
Couple Happy, Father Says.
When asked whether the married life
of Young Coe and his wife had been
happy, DR.. Coe became indignant. The
had been deeply attached to
each other, he said. They had not
cared for society, and were almost
stingy in the way they saved money.
Mrs. Coe had refused to keep a ser
want and did all Of the housework her
self. -
"Tt is an outrage" he insisted, "to
say that the relations between my son
and his wife were anything but happy
before he left"
Friends in Alaska, Dr.. Coe said, were
going to take care Of his son and observe
his mental condition carefully. Young
Coe had always been a highstrung
bov. he asserted, and il was only rea-
sonable TO believe that his disappear
ance had been caused by some hallucl-
nation. The father denied report
that his son had once suffered injuries
to his head in a fall. ,,l
Nothing of the kind ever occurred
he said emphatically.
Boston. May 5.-"Coe is a liar" an
nounced Allan Ainsle, father OF the
young mans wife, who recently became
o mother, when confronted with the
dispatch from Alaska last night. Say
that for his wife and for me, and make (
II empndtlC. u ne Sdlu II, anu uol I
doubt that he did, it's not his first lie.
Wife's Father Indignant.
"By God, wish ! had been the one
TO locate this fellow, or the first one
tcld where he was. The papers would
not have had the stories they've had,
believe me. i
what do I mean? Exactly what I
say. You can guess what ! mean"
Too sick 70 see reporter herself, 1t
was through her father that Mrs. Henry
Clarke Coe, jr., made brief but EN-
phatic answer to her husbands denial
that he knew she was TO become a
mother.
Excuse my temper" Mr.. Ainslee
said. "but there's a limit TO everything. /
Here's my little girl upstairs sick, pros
trated by these developments of the
last few days, coming after all her
worry of weeks and her suffering, and
this fellow comes along with a state
ment like this. It's too much.
"Of course Coe knew Of his wife's
condition; knew it as soon as she did.