The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-07-12
VAMPIRE GHOST
IS BLAMED FOR
HIS DOWNFALL
Accused Ex.Pastor Claims
Phantom Matron Haunt
Him INCREASINGLY
H. JACK JUNGMEYER

posthumous love more powerful
than the lure Of living women.
Desperate efforts through drug:
and amours to shake off the ghast
ly infatuation.
This is the weird defense Donald
d. Stewart, one-tlme clergyman and
prominent moral crusader OF Cali
fornia. will make when he Is
brought to trial in Boston on
charges OF bigamy. grand larceny
and conspiracy.
Stewart and one OF his alleged
wives. Mrs. Ethel osbaldeston Stew
art. were arrested near Los An
rcles BY Pinkerton detectives on
eastern warrants.
This woman, while proclaimins
him Jekyll-Hyde. Is standing 10y
ally by the former pastor. corrobor-
ating his tale OF occult terror and
saping. His laDf three marriages
all were performed while he was
under the influence OF drugs"
Haunted by Lovclorn Ghost
For seven years. Stewart asserts.
he has been haunted by Mrs. Maud
Hendricks. Hayward. California.
who he declares committed suicide
because OF unreguited love for him.
Explanatory notes were left. and
the scandal that ensued resulted In
the then fighting pastor being dis
missed from the Presbyterian
church.
"llcr spirit has fitted between
me and happiness" explains the
cultured, fascinating heartbreaker.
as he is pictured by those making
the charges.
Every night since that tragedy
the womans wrath has trooped
with stealthy. accusing footsteps
outside my door.
Women used to say had fasci-
mating ways. They were the ways
OF desperation. Anything to coun-
teract that creeping presence. II
followed me everywhere. There
was no peace. II was while SO
haunted that ! went from bad to
worse In marriage ventures"
There II is, a tale told In the Los
Angeles iail-one OF intrigue the sue
cessors of Edgar Allan Poe as well
as to interest the law.
At the time he was unfrocked.
Stewart, Il is charged. was married
and the father OF three children. He
left them to go east and in Will
mington. Delaware. married again.
he asserts. seeking forgetflness."
Wcds Again In New York
Then In New York ! met Mrs.
Ethel Obaldeston. the most inspir-
ing inflence in my life. whom I af-
terward welded. I married three
others.
The asserted wife who was ar
rested with Stewart Is declared by
detectives to have posed as his Sis
ter and secretary. to have abetted !
his subsequent marriages and to have
conspired with him In wheedling
money from various brides, as is |
charged.
Psychologists who have had Stew
art, alias Brown. alias McGregor. /
nder observation declare his to be |
a striking case OF dual nature: One
a Jekyll of honor. integrity, brains
and honest desire to uplift his fel-
lows; the other Hyde OF sinister
promptings.
Perhaps am" says he. "If |
80 IL was because OF the woman
who haunted me-"
Ex-Pastor's Dual Nature Analysed
BY HERBERT LAPHAM
Character Analyst and Psychological
Investigator
Donald ID. Stewart has two dis
tinctly conflicting natures.
In both these selves there IL the
Characteristic which has predomi-
mated throughout his life and which
is responsible for part Of his pres
ent difficulties.
That is an agyressiveness which
knows no rest.
II must be directed against some
thing all the time. II not outside
himself. then within. He wants to
fight. to reform. But In contrast to
this Is counter inclination for
one shielding affection. domestic
peace and loyalty to one woman.
To battle and to rest. these war
within him.
Tho attractivcnoss Tor women y