WIFE MADE HIM
i BECOME BURGLAR
'Detroit Man Tires of Robbing,
Kills Woman and
Himself.
LETTER TELLS OF LIFE
“Stay^Stralght and Don't Fall in Love
With the Butterfly Type of
Woman" Is His Advice
to Others.
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* Detroit, Mich.—That his wife made
him become a burglar In order to pro
vide her with more money than he
was able to earn honestly, Is the asser
tion made in a letter by William New
ell, who shot and killed his wife Violet,
26, and then ended his life with a bul
let. The woman was strikingly hand
some, having won beauty contests m
Detroit and Buffalo.
“I hope my experience will be a
lesson to other young lads,” Newell
laicised in the letter. “Stay straight
and don’t fall In love with the butter
fly type of woman as I did.”
The letter, which was addressed to
the chief of police, follows:
Wife Ran Away With Another.
"Dear Sir: Just a few lines to let
you know why I shot my wife and
killed myself. Four years ago today
she ran away with a gink in Buffalo
and went to Pittsburgh. I have always
had a good reputation until I married
this woman. I had a clean divorce
from her and the judge told me to take
♦good care of the little girl. Later 1
took her back on condition she would
live straight; then I quit my good job
and came to Detroit so I wouldn’t hoar
the people say ‘Bill, you are a fool to
take her back.’
“As for the last two weeks she has
done nothing but lie to me. I have
caught her and - in a million
lies, and believe that if Mrs. ---
(the^ther man’s wife) saw what I saw
Saturday morning she would be look
ing for a divorce also.
Goaded by Wife's Taunts.
“I’ll tell you what I’ve done for her.
She said: ‘Bill, if you don’t quit your
job at the Detroit Trailer and get more
money, some day I’ll leave you and
take Marie and you never will see
either of us.’ So, like a fool, I listened
to her. She knew a crook while she
was in Pittsburgh and he told her how
easy it was to open a safe, and she
„.iot and Killed His Wife.
Said: ‘Bill, if you haven’t got the
nerve, I’ll get a game guy.’ But I, like
a fool fell for what she said.
“On the night of Feb. 11—but I am
not sure it was on the 11th—I did my
first job in Detroit.
“I came home with a suitcase full
of money and had enough to paper the
Dime Saving Bank building, but it
didn’t last her very long. She must
have eaten the bills and spent the sil
ver. When she was broke she would
say, ‘Bill, make one more job and we
♦ will go and live straight.’ But it would
be the same story all the time. ‘Do
another, Bill, maybe you will hit it
rich.’
“I have not drank in 11 years, and
now she is not satisfied. But the rea
son I am going to do this is because I
won’t serve time for the woman I
served as burglar for.
“But I hope this is a lesson to other
young lads; stay straight and don’t
fall in love as I did. Tell my mother
and sister and brothers that I am sorry
to disgrace them by Showing Bill was
a Iteirglar. They always thought I was
a good fellow. Tell little Rea daddy is
going away forever, for God knows I
love Vi and baby.”
JAILS HER SOLDIER HUSBAND
Wife Gave One of Her Toes to Mate,
Then Had Him Ar
rested.
Tacoma, Wash.—After giving one of
her toes and a piece of her jaw bone
to her husband Mrs. Gertie Graham of
Tacoma swore out a warrant for his
^* arrest, charging nonsupport.
The husband served overseas and
was wounded. His wife furnished the
missing members in order to assist his
surgical reconstruction.
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Missing New Yorker Found in Overalls at Avalon
SAN FRANCISCO.—Clad in overalls, Jordan Lawrence Mott III, is said to
have been discovered at Avalon, Catalina island, with Mrs. Frances Hewitt
Bowne, with whom he eloped from New York in 1912. Before his elopement
the grandson of the founder of the
Mott Iron works, New York, occupied
nearly a whole floor of the Ritz-Carl
ton hotel. He was attended by a
valet and a squad of chauffeurs, and
lesser functionaries. Since his elope
ment with the beautiful wife of Wal
ter Bowne, a wealthy resident of
Flushing, L. I., Mott is said to have
received $947,508 from his father’s es
tate. Nevertheless he is making a liv
v Ing as a boatman for tuna fishermen.
For his boat lie gets $20 a day.
Mott married Miss Carolyn W. Pitkin, South Braintree, Mass., by whom
be had a son. When he met Mrs. Bowne he forgot his family ties. In May,
1912, he and Mrs. Bowme fled for Gibraltar in a British freighter. Mott signed
as purser on the boat, the Indradent, and Mrs. Bowne as stewardess.
The young man’s father, then living, was furious. He gave his son's
closest friend, Hector Fuller, a letter of credit for $10,000, with instructions
to follow the pair to the ends of the earth. Luck was not with Fuller. He
was delayed in Paris and arrived at Gibraltar after the lumbering freighter
had left. A chase to Hongkong was fruitless. When found Mott flatly re
fused to return home.
Mrs. Bowne’s husband is said to have divorced her at Trenton, N. J., in
September, 1913, while she was in Japan. After Mott appeared in New York
at the settlement of his father’s estate all trace of him was lost.
When he was found at Catalina island he is reported to have said he had
reformed and was devoting his spare time to writing.
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