| Show THE allson MORN MOEN CASE THIS celebre has been more talked about in the press than any other of late the celebrated campbell divorce pr proceedings and the boodle trials in new ew york being el inferior to it in point or of general interest and those details which while not repulsive are so peculiar and even romantic it eclipses in apparent improbability some home of the most extravagant g sensational sat sati ional drawas dramas and yet the whole story is not yet known to the general reader leader the details are briefly told A wealthy citizen of rhode island named moen has been subjected to blackmail at the hands of one wilson commonly known as doe dac tor several years the amounts thus extorted it has not yet certainly ceifie come to aig light what the basis of the strange power exercised by wilson over his victim was but tile the payments were becoming so 80 notorious that questions were asked regarding reg aiding the proceeding edine the only reply received being that he be moen was conscious of nothing lotom notom detrimental to his character but could nol afford to be drawn into public notoriety by means of a rupture and legal fight with a blackmailer some borne men are so constituted that they will submit to a great deal of injustice and oppression to avoid a conflict of whatever nature but the idea of permit permitting ting tina a villain to systematically and periodically rol rob a person with no grounds whatever to stand upon except audacity was a little too much for those who talk first and then investigate to digest but they might despite their pertinacity tina city have gone to the graveen grave entirely unsatisfied had not wilson in an unlucky moment for him brought suit snit upon a note given him by moen then after the strange proceedings occurred in in cour court tithe the blackmailer himself gave a statement of th whole affair he said in brief that he be is the son of moen born after marriage his mother died years ag ago and moen married a second wife 60 by y whom he has sons and daughters to inherit his vast wealth rhe che child of the first wife was given in infancy by the father to 0 one jonas wilson who received payment tor for rearing it ir and keeping the secret on his death bed jonas revealed to the youth the truth concerning his parentage thereupon young wilson went to his father recited the story of his toll and poverty his exile from a home where he had the right to dwell his bis claim as an heir to the wealth in which the father rolled and he be demanded acknowledgment and reparation after hot contention and many repulses and threats by the younger man to force the elder to conless less him his bis son moen yielded so far as to buy his silence and for years wilson bled him freely the family of his reputed parent the wilsons Wil sons knowing the secret of the young mans birth and learning of his success with the millionaire proceeded proceed ed to levy blackmail upon the blackmailer and the latter asserts that R 8 fast as he be relieved his bis father of money the wilsons Wil sons by extortionate torti onate demands fleeced him of it in support of his bis claim that he is the son of deacon moen wilson shows letters of the deacon in which he is addressed as son the mystery seemed to be clearing up but when approached by reporters moen denied dent edthe the whole story and slammed the door in their lace face lately also an old family nurse has appeared on the scene and her testimony la Is unequivocally in support of the victim and against the plunderer but it might as well be remembered that this class of testimony is sometimes a purchasable commodity the remainder of the proceeding so far as we can give it has already appeared in our dispatches it is a most peculiar case wilson had sowe some other hold bold than the mere weakness of an old man surely perhaps ne he is moons son but perhaps again his bis mother was not moons wife such instances are more moie numerous than some people dream of |
