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New York society is deeply stigred to- day (writes the Daily Telegraph'a corres pondent on July 25th), by the publication of the names of the women, several of them prominent in America's "Urpen Four Hundred," who are mentioned as victimas of the scurrilous letters alleged to have been written by Mr. George Maxwell. president of the American Society of Author, Composers, and Publishers, who returned hero recently from London for the express purpose, he said, of surrender ing himself to the authorities and answer- ing the accusations that he has ruined scores of homes by his relations with various married women, then terminated the entanglement by writing anonymous poison-pet letters" to the husbands, thus paviag the way for another affaire
Mr. Maxwell, a tall, good-looking man over 50 years of age, has already hoen in- dited by the grand jury upon information which was detailed in Court yesterday by the Public Prosecutor in opposition to a motion by the defendant's lawyer that the indictment charging him with writing
Lena letters to Mr. Allan A. Rynți, husband of one the alleged victims, ba dismisses.
M: Maxwell apparently has many friends, who urge that he is my upright, loyal math, and that, far from breaking up happy homes, he has himself been the victim of a conspirary with wide ramifes cious, The Pablie Prosecutar stirsang thr faes that some 1335 letters cited before the graal jury are signed Brother Jabu.” Maxwell, he says, has a brother John in India, but he has been there twenty years, and the Public Prosecutor contends that it is quite malikely that anyone other thun Maxwell or his brother would know that fact, or even know that he hail a brother John. Among the names of the women alleged to have gared in Max well's love affairs and the peisaurpen episodes, beside Mrs. Ryah, mentioned by the Public Prosecutor befors Jurge Me Intyre, nee-Camille Seguard, the nnern singer Mrs. Marion Hildreth: Mrs. Muriel Cridler: Mms, Albert R. Grillatin, wife of a banker; Mr Phehe Hunt, the; motion picture actress: and Mme Eva Gauthier, a singer.
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Excerpts from radiograms Cable telegrams, And Jetters were included in the offart
eonvince the Court that there WI 11 deep affection between Mrs. Ryan and Maxwell. Brief quotations from the messages said to have passed between the man and Mrs. Ryan included the following: "Counting the hours, I will be there to meet you in Paris, love," "Love, only love, love of my life"
LIMITS OF FRIENDSHIP,
The Publie Prosecutor said that these were typical of, thirteen statements singled out as grounds for the indictment, and they had been included in a letter received by Mr Ryan which he took to the District Attorney's offer, demanding that Maxwell be charged with its authorship. The Jetter, it was contended, showed that Mrs. Rynn and Maxwell had exceeded the limits af mer frienship, and it was further declared that Maxwell had planned to Preute discord in at least one other home, that he had long been separated from his wife,, hnd represented himself as #bach-
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It charged that Maxwell and Mrs. Ryan travelled in Europe together, taking in London. Paris, Lake" Como, and Milan. When Mrs. Rynu returned to America, going to her family at York Harbour. Main, Maxwell followed her, the Prose-
ADIES GENTLEMEN Suffering catur says and kept in daily communicaLADIES tion with her by radio, cable, and tele.
any kind of Disease, however phone. He also says that a piece of Mrs. complicated and long-standing the eave mar in be, are requested to write present condition of Ryan's wearing apparel was found Maxwell's desk, and one note, supposed to the disease. Fall particulars of treatment. Pume from Mrs. Ryau, as follows: "Love advice, etc, free under cover. Sar" WORKE, of my life.my only love, if you had only Beadoù-square (H.P.), Calcutta (India). been the father of my children."; Tho husbands declare that these poison-pen letters were maliciously invented" to create trouble.
THE NEW FERNOR REMERY.
THERAPION NË 1 THERAPION NO.2 THERAPION N13
According to the Prosecutor, Mr. Max. woll falsely declared himself to be the son of Sir William Maxwell, of Ratheway, Scot- land, whereas he is alleged to have beon,
of Glasgow, who went to pinne Wight, that became a the Isle of ganist in London, and later associated him Self with Ricordis, of Milan, the music publishers. He declares that for twelve years every woman with whom Maxwell was very friendly bears the gistim of letters of the sort received by Ryan, and he charges that this method was adopted by Maxwell in order to rid himself of women of whom he was tiring. The hus-og Coast Porta & Depression or bal, friends, and family rewived letters typ on in Int. deg. N. Long. 116 deg. E, setting forth the wife's alleged relations direction unknown prition urcensin with Maxwell, and in the ensuing uproar boisted.
August 27th at 7.25-1.ocal signal No. 1 the woman would drop out of sight..
UTHORSHIP OF LETTERS.
WEATHER REPORT.
"August 27th`nt. 7.15.-Warning to. Heng-
27th at 4.- Local signal No. 5
Some of the defendant's nileged victims, August 27th at 12.95-Pressure Fas de- including Mrs. Beatrice Gullatin, already creased nod ravely at Viliyotork and mentioned; the wife of Albert Gallatin, lightly over NE. Jaian the Loci com and hath of whom are socially prominent in Kwaitotong. Linearly stationary over Philadelphin, have come forward to de- the l'ail pinion in the Chios Fea has de- clare their belief that Maxwell did not Tie depression write the letters imputed to him, and suid veloped into
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he had offered every possible nesis prescot it appears to bolers than 100 miles tae in discovering the rent culprit. Mrs. East of Waglan, moving North <N.W. Gallatin describes him as a most gentle
Another cepression,
to he South high-minded person. "Both
my wt myself." she said, are con- that he knows no more about the authorship of the letters than we do."
The prosecution, however, cartel that nobody but Maxwell could have written the 135 letters impounded, and affirms that they were written on an old typewriting machine, and that there has been such a Formosa Channel machine in the office of the American
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