The day book. [volume], January 17, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 32

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WOMAN TO STICK TO HUSBAND
WHO SKIPPED TOWN
In a sad little home at 6262 Jack
son Park avenue, Mrs. George M.
Walsh is nursing her sick baby and
trying to arrive at herGreat Decision.
Her husband skipped Tiiesd'ay. The
nt day representatives of the Pack
ard Automobile Co., where he was
employed as auditor, came to the
house and informed her that her hus
band was short $1,200.
The company's agents took $50;
all the money she had. Now the girl
wife has nothing for herself or the
baby. She doesn't know just who to
blame.
She has before her the example
set by Mrs. Frank Hfenning, wife of
the young Schaumberg banker, who
turned her back on her husband the
moment he got in trouble, and on
the other hand she has the example
of Mrs. Angela Whelan, who stuck to
her husband after he had gotten into
trouble.
"And do you know," said Mrs.
Walsh through her tears, "I believe
I'll stick."
SAYS WOMAN'S STORY DROVE
HIM TO ATTEMPT KILLING
Somerville, N. J., Jan. 17. That a
woman's story of her wrongs and
her offer of $400 inspired him in his
attempt to kill Monroe P. Ellis, presi
dent of the State Lumber Ass'n, and
of the Conkling Lumber Co., by fir
ing nine shots through the window
of Ellis' home while he sat at dinner,
is the story told by Paul Carl, ar
rested after two years' persistent
search by private detectives.
The boy says he did not know and
had never seen Ellis before the shott
ing, but that he was approached by
the woman who declared she had
been mistreated. He says he went to
New York to hire a gunman, but he
was laughed at and resolved to do it
himself.
After the shooting, he went to his
home in Stroudsburg, Pa., but de
cided he. would be safe.r near the
scene of the crime, so- he went back
and worked for six months' as a clerk
in the office of the man he tried to
kill.
One- of the private detectives sus
pected the boy, and when .-he was no
longer abje to stand workingin Som
erville, the detectve followed him to
Stroudsburg and became his frieiyi
and confident until he wormed
enough of the story out of , the boy to
arrest him.
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"It's not everybody I'd rent this
room to," said the sad-faced land
lady. "This room is full of tender asso
ciations to me. My first husband died
in that bed, with his head On that
very pillow. My dear father passed
away on that sofa under the window.
My poor nephew Williah fell dead
with heart disease right where you
are standing. He was studying to be
a doctor, and there are two skeletons
and six abnormal livers preserved in
spirits in that press yonder, while
that bottom drawer is full of odd
bones and skulls.
"Well, good night, and pleasant
dreams."
WEATHER FORECAST
Generally fair today and probably
tomorrow; somewhat colder today;
moderate northwest winds, becoming
variable.