Evening star., 1922-07-23
WOMAN IN ACID
MYSTERY TAKES
BLAME FOR ALL
Ibid 1t Myself" She Tells
Mount Rainier Police in
New Confession.
PLOT ONLY THICKENED
By "COMPLETE FACTS"
Mrs. Cavey and Sister-in-Law Held
Under Bond Pending
Hearing.

Her sightless eyes bandaged and
her frail body shaking with emotion.
MRS. Louise Brooke, the victim" in
Mount Rainier's murder plot" mys-
terry. yesterday evening unfolded to
Prince Georges county authorities a
remarkable version of how she came
by her wounds and disfieurements-
a story designed TO clear of ali blame
the wife and sister-in-law of Bradley
Cavey. the man in the case" but
which served only to further tanEle
the threads in one of Maryland's
strangest criminal cases
Every one you have arrested is
innocent" she declared in starting
what she termed her Complete con-
fession' at private hearing in
Mount Rainier before Justice of tn,
Peace Robert f. Joyce and Constable
Thomas H. Garrison. "An i told
Bradley Cavey about the acid throw
ing and attempts on my life was ab-
solutely untrue. He told YOU only
what l told him: he thought I was
II
scare him into stopping his atten-
tions TO me. I hoped to rectify the
wrong he was doing his wife and
baby and that / was doing my hus-
band"
Although the woman's story was
recounted firmly and quietly. as she
frequently bit her lips to control her
emOfionS avi<a,t H..
ber of points in her account. given
with much hesitancy. did not satisfy
her listeners. After she had asserted
that she burned both of her wrists
with I've applied with a clothespin.
the bandage from one of her wrists
was removed, disclosing cruel marks
such as would be left by tightly
bound ropes.
Says Life Threatened.
What the authorities considered
her most significant statement. OBJ
tanned by careful griliinz, was: Yes.
Mrs. Cavey threatened to kill me-
later declaring she would get some
one to do it for her." Realizing that
much interest was being manifested
by the officers in this statement, she
hastened to add that she supposed
Mrs. Cavey lost her temper"
The private Confession" of the in
jured woman followed a public hear
ing before Judge Joyce. in which Mrs.
Cavey and her sister, Rosie Bradio.
and $1,000, respectively, furnished by
o. F. Rye, a friend. Constable Garri-
son had asked that bond of $4,000
be asked of each. The women have
technical warrants against them
charging assault with intent TO
kill" The trial was set for August
at request of NJ. Maurice Meyer Of
ants.
Il suppose I will be asked why /
did all this" Mrs. Brooke said in
opening her talk. Il tried to make
redress for my wrong. but / couldn't.
1t has come about just 1 told Mr.
Cavey when / was urging him to
stay away. He has his wife and
family. l have nothing. They even
took my boy away from me today.
adopted him seven years ago. and now
the authorities have taken him back
Beginning of Letters.
81 will start at the beginning. Four
years ago Mr.. Cavey threw out of a
train window a Saturday Evening
Post on which was written his name
and address. / wrote to him and
mailed the letter to the address given.
We exchanged letters. After a while
ne came to my home and had a talk
with me. We meant no harm. yet I
knew 1 was doing wrong and tried
to break Off from him. 1 realized [
was doing a great injustice to my
home, but Mr.. Cavey insisted there
was no harm in his writing and talk-
ing to me.
$50 this state of affairs went on.
Mr.. Cavey never was willing to stop
Then Mrs. Cavey came to see me. She
said she mad found the paper with the
ADDRESS which her husband had given
me and also some nf my letters TO
him. She told me he was married
and that 1 was married and said we
must break UP. 1 promised that I
would. When Mr.. Cavey first met me
he told me he was not married, and
for three years I thought he wss
single i asked him why he didn't
tell me he was married and he ex-
plaified he knew / wouldn't write TO
him in that event.
"Afterward Mrs. Cavey' and her
husband came over to my house and
we both tried to persuade him not
to write to me, but he wouldn't
listen. tried to effect a reconcilia-
ton between them-I wanted to rec
tify the wrong l had committed. I
told him that when the end came
would stand it out alone, and that's
what I'm doing today. He refused
to go back to his wife. and shortly
after they left my house together,
but a few minutes later he came back
to me.
Visit to. Baltimore.
"Somet:me after this 1 went to Mr..
Cavey's home In Baltimore-not to
break up his home. but to set him
to promise to stay away from mine.
My pleading was futile. The longer
1 tried the wo1Ee it got. Yes. die
ask the way to- the bay, but want
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