Show YOUNG WIFE OF CHECK KlIER WATKINS WILL CLING TO HIM TO THE BITTER END Girl Who Married Him at f j Ogden Says ys H Hb lit Is Too j i Good and Kind lind to Be Guilty of Forgery OMAHA Sept 10 My I husband was the soul cf of honor to me kind loving 10 and generous I love him and now In his Ills ho hour r of I shall not desert leSert but him shall return to him as soon as possible So said Mrs Phillip D. D who was Maud G. G Last June Maud was going to Ogden Osden Utah Ulah on 0 a Union Pacific train single Ingle pretty vivacious h clous and Innocent T 4 On the train was a 0 young oung man nn named Philip PhIIp D. D on Ron O of Dr Wal- Wal ono one of or the wealthiest citizens o of Montclair N. N J. J and now president of the the- National 1 Association of or Den- Den J. J lists r The twenty four four hours' hours ride which t they the were required to make resulted In an an engagement and this culminated In six Ix d days ds s 's later at O Ogden Miss I visiting her sister In the In- In Thc rite young oun couple Imm immediately departed departed de- de parted upon a wedding tour tOut This Is S MIs 1153 story of it Young Youn Wife's Story We Ve went from Ogden to San FranCisco Francisco Fran- Fran f 1 Cisco where we were received ed Into the best houses Then we went rent 10 to San to Catalina Island to Santa Santa Sany San- San y ta Cruz and several se other points In California It was a 0 continuous round C or of happiness for we Se loved each other c Wo Y w. tired of ot California scenes and my my husband saying he had business In Alaska I accompanied him there there We Ve visited several cral mining camps camp ascending the White pass took Look steamboat excursions up the rivers ers and I around the bays bas my husband never beIng be- be Ing at a 10 loss 1055 5 to carr carry out an any proposed excursion no matter what the expense Finally he said ald his business was con- con eluded and wu we returned to Seattle August August Au- Au gust Just We Ve were vere entertained wherever wherever ever er we went vent by the best of oC people eYer every one appearing to respect m my husband husband hus lius- band because of ot his apparent wealth and personality Was Not Hypnotized Was as I hypnotized by m my husband 1 Certainly not No necessity existed for or ex exercising nn any such Influence over o me for I love him He treated me kindly kindly kind kind- ly affectionately and I willingly went vent with him wherever he wished That stor story from Los Angeles that I was hypnotized hyp hyp- and aud would sing but one song sonS sounds to me like e a 0 dream I sang and andI I laughed and I enjoyed life liCe for tor was I Inot Inot Inot not happy I I never dreamed of trouble ImpendIng Impending impendIng Impend Impend- ing over o him He was too generous not on only to me but to lo others Why h on the boat were some poor lOO people who needed financial assistance lie He started started- a subscription subscription subscription sub sub- I for or them heading It with from himself lC and raised another among amons the other passengers I had hail no noi i thought of difficulties until the night we wc stopped at Billings Mont tont on our return We Ve were then bound for tor New NewYork York He said he wanted to go to Newcastle New- New castle and left me at the hotel at nt DIl- DIl lings I thought It a little strange yet yetI I suspected nothing of or the real cause Then Ihen I suddenly learned that he had been arrested at nt Newcastle I could not believe It U. U yet ct how could I doubt it It I i for he did not return to me Then he was brought h back to Billings and I saw hIm behind the bars har I went to him and ind clung to him lie He told me he had been arrested o on the charge of ot forging f some papers I do not believe belle he is 15 s guilty for he Is la too good and 1 kind to commit a n crime If It he cashed checks at nt Ogden Osden or elsewhere I did lid not know of ot It He lie always had plenty of or money and his parents are wealthy wealth so 80 It was not nol necessary for him to do such a thing I r- r I I will stand b by him to the end and believe belle that he will yet be set free A Strenuous Dude I It was It-was was In January Januar- of ot last year ear that Philip D. D Watkins first came camo- Into public public pub pub- lic lie notice He lIe went to Boston and became be le came employed In a 0 Chauncey Chaunce street brokerage house He lie borrowed a 0 sum of or money mone- from his employer and went vent I to Amesbury Mass where he be became me manager of or the Amesbury File Works through the assistance of Clifford A. A Moore loore o of Lo Low well we'll ll the owner At Amesbury Ames Ames- bur bury he was considered quite the proper thing thins setting the fashion for the gilded youth of ot the vicinity antI and beIng being be- be I ing accord accorded d the title of oC the shirt shirt- walt walEt man of or that vicinity He lie became became became be be- came engaged to Ethel Boardman the laughter daughter of a a. tugboat owner of ot New New- I reputed to be a millionaire the engagement being announced Engaged to Heiress Mr Moore suddenly discovered ered one payday paday that the employees s were minus their money An Investigation In ensued and WatkIns was discharged rl The en- en to lo Miss Boardman was wa withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn and nd i a went t to now Held Chicago o n next reported him and there rc he Is Js sald ld to have ha pasq parsed worthless c cheeks checks eCk Omaha next felt cit his presence Watkins representing himself here and further westward nl as a n representative rn athe of ot the Boston Fruit exchange It was wasn on n his leaving Omaha that he hc met Miss and th their lr engagement and quick marriage followed Checked on Bridal Trip On their wedding trip Watkins Is said to have pursued d his course of or passIng pass- pass lug Ing worthless checks On the he road Mr and Mrs fell In with the Berkeley team to members of which lie hi represented himself as a nel nephew hew of or Thomas W. W Lawson the copper king Watkins managed to get Copt Capt Hussey to Indorse two ch checks each for OO which were subsequently returned with No o funds stamped upon them A warrant for his arrest was 81 Issued but hut he was out of sight From Oakland Cal he departed without taking the thc trouble of paying his weeks week's board bill ThiH was before he lie and his bride went to Santa Cruz On their return to San Francisco met T. T V Wesley Wright a former resident of or Montclair Mont Mont- clair N. N J. J and induced him to Indor Indorse e checks which proved worthless s as os the others It Is believed belle by friends of or Mrs Watkins Watkins Wat- Wat kins and md those who are arc acquainted with the standing of Watkins's relatives that his obligations will be liquidated b by them and th that t no Prosecutions will wilt follow |