Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-01 | Page 8 | Husband Slain, Father Accused, Young Widow a Witness; Mrs. Eugene N. Newman in pitiful Dilemma as Trial Nears

HUSBAND SLAIN, FATHER ACCUSED, YOUNG WIDOW A WITNESS; MRS. EUGENE N. NK"M,am in p jTIFUL DILEMMA AS TRIAL NEARS if mii N. AttBfeaBn William V. Cleary (top left). Mrs. Anna Cleary Newman and Eugene N. Nownxan. Unique in dramatic situations that murder trails have brought about is that which will arise when William iV. Cleary, the Democratic boss and town clerk of Haverstraw, N. Y., comes to trial early next month for tho killing of his eighteei-year-old son-in-Law, Eugene N. Newman. It lies in the harrowing position in which the dead lad's girl-wife, Cleary'a daughter, will find hersebf . To appear upon the witness stand in defense de-fense of her father involves the necessity ne-cessity of aspersing the memory of her youthful husband; to ignore her father's desperate plight rind remain away from tho courtroom, or to take the stand and be forced to give evidence evi-dence against him obviously carries with it poignant distress, the torture of filial affection. Newman was shot dead in Cleary'3 ofllce last July. "I dare say my father was so furious furi-ous to think that Geno and I had run away and been married that he absolutely ab-solutely lost his head," says the young widow. "For anyone to attribute at-tribute any othor reason for my father killing my husband is to cast a slanderous reflection on my husband hus-band that I will not permit."