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Show o NEGRESS RTTFR A HARVARD PROFESSOR. Not in recent years ha.-. Harvard been involved in a scandal so sensational sensa-tional as that which recently led to the resignation of Professor Phillio Marcou as nrofessor of modern lan-truaecs, lan-truaecs, following the filing of a breech of promise suit apainst him bv Annie Mnnley. a negress of unmixed un-mixed African "descent. Marcou w.'is highly popular with both faculty hild students and the explosion of a bomb H upon the Harvard campus cuuld hard- H ly have caused more consternation. H The charges against him read like a B Jcykill and Hyde romance, and many H people believe that the elderly pro- H lessor is the victim of a conspiracy. H Professor Marcou indignantly denies H that he has ever been intimate with 1 the ncgrcss or has promised to marry 1 her and will fight the case in the H The Mauley woman is about 35 m years of age and is as black as the Htt proverbial ace of spades. For years A she has resided in the South end, KH where she owns a handsome and lav- HH ishly furnished house at 28 Holyokc H street. Among her neighbors she is H reputed to be wealthy, and merchants H in the vicinity declare that until re- H cently she always seemed CO be well H supplied with money. It is declared H that for the last ten years she has had H a frequent visitor in the person of an H elderly white man, who called once H or twice every week and at times ap- H parcntly passes the night at the home H of the ucgrcss. Shortly before the H ncgrcss filed a breach of promise suit H against Professor Marcou it is said H that the white man ceased his visits H and Miss Mauley's source of income H was suddenly cut off. It is understood H that if Professor Marcou is successful H in defending the suit he will resume H his former position at Harvard. H |