The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-25
GIRL, FACING TEACHER, STILL
STICKS TO POISON PEN STORY
Sunday School Pupil Repeats That Miss Everson Die
tated Letters She Received-Woma Denies
Truth Of Child's Tale-Plot, She Says.

Miss Maria Ncrsor, the sunday
teacher who In accused Of dicta,-
ing Infamous letters to u girl Of IL. was
brought face to face with the child yes
terday IN her home Al Little Neck. While
Miss Everson denied the girls story the
child repeated her charge u~nfinchirgly.
\ family Bible shares with 4 grand
fathers clock. ancestral crayon portraits.
hand painted bric-a-brac and q new talk
ing machine the places ~ honor In the
parlor ~ the home At Little Neck. On
this Bible Miss Everson rested her right
hand yesterday afternoon and said fer.
vently
AS God Is my Judge I had nothing to
do with writing those letters. and 7 hope
He may strike me d. ad right now " I
am telling a lie. Hut I do not lie. and
no one can make me. My mother used
10 say to me Maria. | hope you never
have to he a witness In court against
my one that YOU ar. fond Of. for you
can't tell a lie"
The girl Alvena Waite. self-confessed
writer of the forty ugly letters now in
the possession Of the Childr,n's society
and accuser of Miss Ev,rson. was
brought into the pc rlor TO face her
GtrI Accuses. Facing Teacher.
"Alyens,' said her sunday school
teacher. why have YOU told these lies
about me- You know they are lies.
What is the matter viii you?"
Nothing Is the matter with me said
Alvsna. They're not lies. You had me
write the letters. You stood over me
right out there In our dining room and
told me what TO say"
"Alvens, you are wickediy untruthfui."
II am not"
You are
II am not
so 1t went on for an hour. The girls
glance never wavered from Miss Ever.
on's face. nor Miss Everson's from the
girls. Three agents of the Children's
society. who had zone to Little Neck
from Brooklyn with the int. ntion OF
making n more serious charge than that
Of writing poisoned letters against Miss
Everson II certain things Alvena Waite
! told them were verified. couldn't for the
lie Of them make UP their minds whether
AIvena or Miss Everson was telling the
truth. Finally they took the girl back ~
Brooklyn. where she is to be arraigned
as a material witness to-day. blu left
tn. sunday school teacher alon, In hei
mid-Victorian par,or.
Miss Everson Is "A spinster, 30 years
old last May. Her mothers family. the
Cornells. is we'll known on Long Island
Her cousin. George Cornell. has a publ,
garage on Floral park road. Little Neck
she was born In Manhattan Her father
Brazellai Everson, dropped dead twelve
years y Her mother. from whom Miss
Everson inherited New Jersey real estate
valued'a about 100000. has been deac
seven wears. Miss Everson says she
has lost u good deal OF this fortune. bu'
has enough 10 keep her comfortably II
her gray frame house on Jackson avenue
the main street Of the spraying villag'
Of Little Neck.
Active IN church Work.
For wears she was a member of tn
spring street Presbyterian Church. Man
hatan. Miss Everson says. Then sh,
went to Jersey city. Joined the Elmer,
street Methods, church. and worked IL
the PEOPLES Mission ~ a volunteer. She
moved ~ her Little Neck home. owned
nv George Cornell. about tour years az
and became teacher Of the intermediate
class of girls in Mon Chapel on Flora
Park Dad. which Is = branch ~ tn
Dutch Reformed Church Of Manhattan
She also organized the Club NJ Littl
Hslpers-thirte.n girls who met AT he
house on Monday afternoons and r.
hearsed hymns II recitations, as vel
as learning to sew,
Aiyena Waite. one OF the seven chill
dren OF william Waite, a ga'eman o.
the Long Island Railroad. wh" died thre