The day book., November 19, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 29

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Miss Florence Lacase, with whom I
used to go to school in California. We
recognized each other and it was due
to her efforts that I was released.
"When I was freed I discovered
that I lovedjiie girl who had saved
my life anJBtatwere married and re
turned toHaa?'
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FEDERAL JUDGE LANDIS TAKETMcCORMICK
ADAMS CASE UNDER ADVISEMENT
vince them that I wasan American
citizen. Getting back in Prance I was
arrested for the third time and again
sentenced to death. I persuaded the
officials to send me to Paris where I
was sure I could prove my identity.
"While I was being marched
through the streets of Paris I saw
Federal Judge Landis took under
advisement the petition of involun
tary bankruptcy filed by Robert R.
McCormick, "publisher of the Chicago
Tribune, against his cousin, Edward
S. Adams, member of the Board of
Trade.
The petition was entered in Judge
Landis' court after Adams, had sued
McCormick for $300,000, charging
that the newspaper owner had alien
ated the affections of his former wife,
Mrs. Amie Irwin Adams. The
Adamses were divorced last March.
Though bitterly fought by McCor
mick, the story of the shattering of
tfie Adams home in Lake Forest and
in Tower Court, Chicago,, by the es
trangement of Adams and his wife
was allowed to creep into the hear
ing before Judge Landis.
McCormick made his home with
Adams for ten years. At the end of
that time came the divorce. McCor
mick paid no board bill at the Adams
home. That is admitted. But he
loaned Adams during that time $43,
000. And when Adams named Mc
Cormick the latter took steps to col
lect it
Before the divorce prQceedings last
March McCormick promised to de
stroy the Adams notes. Evidence
was introduced by Adams to show
that he had even said that he had
burned the notes. But he still holds
them. Hence the bankruptcy pro
ceedings. In their final arguments the attor
neys for Adams and McCormick took
different paths. Michael Gesas for
the Tribune publisher clung to his old
argument that Adams owed his client
$43,000 and that no matter what he
promised Adams, nor no matter what
had happened, Adams should be com
pelled to pay or shut up shop.
His argument was that even
though McCormick had promised to
discharge the deb'ts that promise did
not mean that the debt was dis
charged. Edward Adams was placed on the
stand again. The McCormick attor
neys sprung something new on him.
They brought up a time when deal
ing with a client namer Turner the
firm of Adams & Co. had failed to
list the McCormick debt as a liability
and had also failed to list $51,00fl that
they charged him with owing Harold
F. McCormick and Cyrus McCormick.
Adams defended the Robert Mc
Cqrmick debt by the evidence of Mor
rill Dunn, Cyrus Adams, Sr., and Cy
rus Adams, Jr., and the letter, all of
which showed that McCormick had
sent word to Adams "that the "notes
were in ashes" and also of the prom
ise that they would be either torn up
or sent to Adams.
His attorney, Julius Moses, also
dwelt on the evidence introduced ty
Cyrus Adams, Sr., of the talk he had
with Robert McCormick, in which
Cyru Adams told McCormick that he
thought that McCormick owed
Adams something for his board and
lodging at Adams' home for a period
covering ten years.
Gesas centered a great deal of his
attack on the cost of McCormick's
board. He said that, even if it were
true, it was a past consideration and
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