The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-12
GIRL STICKS TO
POISON Pen
STORY
Sunday School Pupil Repeats
That Miss Everson Dictated
Letters She Received.


Letters She Received.
< NEW YORK, Mar. 1l.--A family
Bible shares with ErNndfathcr's
clock. ancestral crAyon portraits. hand
painted bric-n-brNc and a new talking
machine the places of honor in the
plrlor of tho home ut Little Neck OF
Miss Maria Everson, the Sunday school
teacher who Is accused OF debating
infamous letters to girl Of IL. caus-
ing the girl TO address them To Miss
Eyersnn herself and then procuring
tho arrest as their author OF II woman
who used to live next door On this
Bible Miss Everson rested hCr right
hand and said fervently:
''As God Is my judge had nothing
to do with writing those letters. and
hope He may strike me dead right
now II urn telling n lie. But do
not lie. and no one can make me. My
mother used to say 10 me, Maria,
hope you never have to he n witness
in court against any one that you are
fond OF. for you can't tell lle"
Tho girl, Alvena Waffle. self con-
fessed writer of the forty ugly letters
now in the possessions OF the chill
drun's society and aCcuser OF Miss
Eyerson. was brought into the parIor
to face her.
Girl Accuses, FnCing Teacher.
"Alvenn." said her Sunday school
teacher. why have you told these lies
about me? You know they are lies.
What is the matter with you?"
Nothing Is the matter with me"
said Alvena. They're not lies. You
had me write the letters. You stood
over mo right out there In your din
ing room and told me what to sHy."
"Alvena, You IRE wickcdly untruth-
full"
II am not
''You are"
81 am not"
So it went OH for an hour. The
girls glance never wRvered from Miss
Bverson's face, nor Miss Eyerson's
from the girls. Three agents of the
chLldren's society, who had gone to-
Little Neck from Brooklyn with the
intention of making more serious
charge than that OF writing poisoned
letters against Miss Everson IL certain
things AlYena Waffle told theme were
verified, couldn't for the life of them
make up their minds whether AlVena
or Miss Eyerson was telling the truth.
Finally they took tho girl back 10
Brooklyn, where she Is To be ar
ralgned as material witncsa" but
left the Sunday school teacher alone
in her mid-Victorlan parlor.
Miss EYers0n Is spinster, go years
old last May. Her mothers family,
the C0rnells, is we'll known on Long
Island. Her cousin, George Cornell,
has public garage OF Floral park road
Little Neck. She was born in Man
haitian. Her father, Bra2ellai Ever
son, dropped dead twelve years ago.
Her mother. from whom Miss Everson
inherited New Jersey real estate vail
ued Mt about 100000, has been dead
seven years. Miss Everson says she
has lost q good deal Of this fortune,
but has enough to keep her comfort
ably In her gray frame house on Jack
son avenue, tho main street of the
sprawllng village of Little Neck.
Active In Church Work.
For years she was n member OF the
Spring Street Presbyterian church,
Miss Everson says. Then
she went to Jersey City, Joined the
Emery Street Methodist church, and
worked in the Peoples Mission as
She moved to her Little
Neck home. owned by George Cornell.
about four years ago and became
teacher Of the intermediate class of
girls in Union Chapel on Floral Park
road. which Is a branch of the Dutch
Reformed Church OF Great Neck. She
also organized the Club OF Little Help
girls who met at her
house on Monday afternoons and re-
hearsed hymns and recitationa, as
we'll as learning to sew.
Alvena Waffle, one OF the seven
children of William Waffle. q gate
man on the Long Island, railroad. who
died three years ago, was among these
girls. She lives at the end OF o lane
back of Miss Everson's home. Miss
Everson played her old piano and sang
for the Little Helpers. She is a menl-
her OF the, Church Alliance. the Kings
Nearly everybody in Little
Neck thinks well of her. 'So finer
woman living" said George Cornell.
ON the other hand, Miss Anna Brett,
principal OF the Little Neck public
school, where Alvena Waite got her
diploma, last June, recalls her as the
..best girl In school"
The forty letters which Miss Ever
son handed to the Queens county au-
thorities last week and which caused
the arrest Of Mrs. Gabrielle Croyetto,
n netghbor of Miss Everson until De-
cember "a last, but now living in Ma |
N. ", are mostly written with
q pencil. Only two went through the
mails, postmarked at Duuglaston and
AS they are in the hand
writing OF Alyena Waffle and she adj
mits she wrote them and says Miss
Everson dictated them, Mrs. Crovetto
was freed OF all suspicion.
Nearly All Unprintablc.
The salutation OF some OF the LETT
tiers Is "My Dear Miss Eyerson,r Of
other "My Dear Friend" and some
begin ''My Dearest Alvena." These
are the notes written by A1vena to
Miss Eyersonts dictatinn.
she says. Nearly all the sentences are
More innocuous samples
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