CHASING A COWBOY.

NZ Truth, Issue 406, 5 April 1913, Page 7

CHASING A COWBOY.

Mrs. May Russell Replies.

Charges Made All Round.

IJnder the heading of "Chasing a Cowboy," ''Truth," .m. last week's issue, published an account 1 of the alleged infatuation of a certain married woman for a cowboy belonging to Wirth's. Circus. A lengttiy letter has been received from, the "principal" m the case, and the following is . a condensed version of her story : — The letter' was v written from "Wel-lington-street, ,Nelson, : and commences by stating "that the writer's name , i s Mrs . May " Russell (not j Jones, and never was Jones, and she had never been separated from any man). "Regarding,- . • BODEN, THE COWBOY, she says, it was he who was writing all ' letters, offering to substantiate such statement b^- the production of three telegrams bearing on the subject. She does not deny staying at the City Hotel, Auckland, at the cowboy's expense, admitting that he jnert her v at the station, drove : her to the hotel, and had all her meals, except tea, sent up to her room. She states she refused his overtures to go for walks, "for certain reasons," and absolute denial is given the statement that she was ''infatuated" with Boden. On the Sunday- night she collapsed," Mrs. Russell says she remembers nothing after 8 p.m. (at which hour she took ill), until regaining consciousness m the hospital. Charges are then made against the hospital authorities /of injecting morphia into her "to keep me m a state of stupor" ; against the police

(A Well-known Merchant).

You should see him at the Boxing when the boxers have a scrap, : He sits and smiles and yawns and blinks, and doesn't give a rap;; . He likes the sport, because, you ■ see, it gives. him cause to think, That after all this wickSd world . is not so Winky blink. .

for compelling her to stay m Auckland for several days on pretences that she was not fit to travel; that at the court SHE WAS "THTRD DECTtBTCD"' into pleading guilty by betfng assured that, she would receive no punishment (otherwise she would be sent to gaol or a mental hospital). Mrs. Russell emphatically.;, deprecates the allegation that she attempted to take her own life, and proceeds :— "Why didn't the police take charge of my belongings . . .Either before or. after my removal to the hospital, my belongings had been gone through at the hotel, and certain telegrams, letters, and photos ' had been taken, all of which, would have thrown some light on the case and •given justice' to me."