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t / V \ - f - - \> ’ . » 4 !r- ■ ■ ■ to e iH SB 6 AIB IS COKE; SHE ASB MVOMI Rockville Centre Woman Na mes Oceanside Neighbor With whom Hicks Departed BOTH ARE IN BOSTON, MASS. Complainant Alleges Infidelity and Abandonment. Letters and Poem Revealed Just six months ago Mrs. Margaret A. Hicks, a member of the prominent and influential i- Pearsall family of Rockville Centre, bade her husband. Arthur V. S. Hicks, good-bye at the ' door of their home in Merrick road. He was to have visited Manhattan, she understood, and return at night. She waited in vain fZ>r him and up to the present she has not seen or heard directly from him. And now, follow ing. the excitement of a dual disap pearance, she has begun a suit for absolute divorce, based upon statutory grounds, through her attorneys, Ed wards & Levy, of Freeport, and names Mrs. Puella Cornell, the attractive and pretty wife of Arthur Cornell, of Oceanside. Hicks and Mrs. Cornell left Rock- vi le Centre at about the same time on June 29 last, the former for a day and Mrs. Cornell for Bayshore, L. I., where she was to have spent the Fourth of July with relatives. She was accom panied by her six-year-old daughter Rosalie. A short time after reports reached Rockville Centre that the pair were in Boston, Mass., where it is alleged they are still living together under assumed names. Unconfirmed reports from that city to the effect that Hicks has been placed under ar rest have reached here within the past several days. The marital affairs of the Hicks have been more or less tangled for several years past. Hicks was em ployed by an insurance company as its agent in the immediate vicinity and visited the home of Cornell. It is believed that the romance which cul minated in the elopement began dur ing his visits to collect premiums. Hicks disappeared only a few weeks after he had celebrated with his wife the fifteenth anniversary of their mar riage on June 7. Prior to that time, his relations with his wife became strained, particularly since his return from Florida, where together they spent a short vacation. Hicks was employed at Long Beach as a carpenter until the date of his disappearance on June 29. While there he worked together with Joseph A. Eldred, of Lynbrook, whom he had known intimately from the date of his marriage. Eldred says in an affi davit which is made a part of Mrs. Hicks' complaint, that Hicks on June 28 offered to sell him his tools, de claring that he was through with this part of thfc country, that on the fol lowing day he would leave Long Beach maybe forever. “Hicks asked me on June 28,\ says Eldred’s affidavit, \to purchase his carpenter's tools. He said he was going away with Arthur Cornell’s wife, who is Puella Cornell, named in the complaint of Mrs. Hicks. About July 24 I received a letter, postmarked Boston, Mass., from Hicks, that con tained statements to the effect that he was sorry for what he- had done, referring tq leaving his wife. He asked me to write him, using a self- addressed envelope enclosed, in his own handwriting, addressed as fol- Archle N. Hall, General Delivery, Station D„ Boston, Mass. Hicks letter read in part as follows: \Dear Friend Joe, \Well I am here and want you to do something for me. Will you go, to my wife and see how things are? Go to her as if you thought I was in New York, and try to find out what she thinks about me. What I want to. do is to undo what I have done. Try and get some expression from her as to how she feels towards me, and let me know Just as soon as you can. Go to J. W. Pearsall's, Merrick road, as she may be there, but find her at any cost. I will pay you for your trouble if I ever see you again, me, please. I am sorry for what I have done and don’t think as much of her as I ought. I will answer your communication as soon as I hear from you.\ Mr. Eldred replied promptly, but it is evldentgossflaoitshen vbgkqjmm it is apparent his letter fell Into the hands of Mrs. Cornell, for under date of September 14 she wrote him as follows: “I think you think you are very smart sending Artie those letters and trying to get him away from me, but you had better mind your own busi ness and let us alone, for you would have done the same thing Is you had the chance. • • • You had better • ' ' THE NASSAU PO S T : FftE c P Q R T , N. Y . FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1114 PEARSALL SOON TO RETIRE; BOX LYNBROOK POSTMASTER PRESIDENT tOX SEEKS REELEOION Freeport's Executive Announ ces His Intention to Run Again in Spring WILL STAND ON X RECORD Randall and Ellison Likely Candi dates For Place—Others Expected I S Y L V E S T E R fSE A R O A L L Change Expected in February— Free Delivery Urged By Residents After thirty-four years of service in the Lynbrook post office as postmaster and clerk, Sylvester Pearsall, more familiarly known as \Ves\ Pearsall, Upon the succession of John S. Simonson td the postmastership, the ^ have completed in April. The other oifice was removed to Atlantic avenue i ,, _ _ Although the spring election is still three months away, with the open declaration of one candidate for the village presidency of Freeport and the likelihood of two others before the close of January, an interesting situa tion develops in local political circles. Smith Cox will run again for the office he now holds and has made it plain in the announcement of his candidacy that he will make his campaign upon his record during the term he will and Pearsall continued as clerk. Dur ing the administration of President Harrison in 1889 he was appointed as postmaster and has served continuous ly since, except during the second ad- likely candidates are Ernest S. Ran- ■ dall, whose term as a trustee expires I this year and J. Huyler Ellison, who in | the last village election opposed Cox ! (Jn an independent ticket and was de feated. is about to retire from the service of ministration of Grover Cleveland, the government, and in his place VVil-' when Thomas K. Box, then the vil age bur C. Box, the son of Thomas K. blacksmith, was appointed to the Box, democratic leader of that village, office. Peafsall remained, however, will assume the office under appoint -1 serving the four years of Box's admin- ^ - ^ ^ 3 ^ the people of the village ment from President Woodrow Wilson. ] istratlon as Assistant. | lfi that be has improved the streets The change in all probabi ity will take Pearsall has metaphorically watched and carrled int0 effect varloua reforms : place during January. The new post- Lynbrook grow through a barred I ^ administration of the munici- Cox’s announcement caused not a little stir in political Freeport on the last day of December. The village executive asserted that he has kept palities affairs. Especially in the mat-; m a ster is twenty-seven; his prede- stamp window from a mere settlem ent cessor is just fifty. to a thriving village of about 3500 i n - ^ Qf gtreet light8| Cox s c a r e d he Box's appointment to the postm a ster habitants, and has built up the o f f i c e . ^ carried out hls preelection prom- ship in Lynbrook was brought about from the fourth to second class, pay-1 ^ and refers tQ Freeport as the ..best through the influence of his father,; ing salaries of clerks during his 1 Ugbted vtjlage on Long ls,and who for many years has been a power various terms until 1911, when the 1 in democratic politics in Nassau Coun- office was re-designated, ty. Despite the opposition of Paul Only twice during his career as rep- W. F. Lindner and J. 1. C. Hancock, i resentative of Uncle Sazn has Pearsall for both of whom petitions were w ide-1 suffered loss by robbery. In the early ly circulated and signed throughout years of his first term in 1892, a clerk the village, Box received his commis- appropriated $150 from a Registered sion soon after his father had an- envelope, but the loss was quickly dis- nounced that he would name the next i covered and the clerk sent to jail, postmaster. Box has been engaged in \The second time,\ said Pearsall the plumbing business. | to a reporter for The Nassau Post, The retiring postmaster has been recently, \I was tending store when a in the service of the government since i strange came into the office and order- bis sixteenth birthday. Lynbrook was ed vinegar. He gave me a small bot- at that time known as Pearsall’s Cor-, tie and I hurried to the cellar to fi 1 ners and its post office was removed . it. While I was out of his sight he from the business centre at the Five ! opened the door of the safe and re- Points about one half mile to the east, | moved about $400 worth of stamps, near ‘he old Sandhole Church, on j A young woman was in the store at Merrick road. Pearsall had been at work on his father’s farm .tO.,the north of the vil lage, but through an illness had been forced to give up his duties there. He was seeking employment when he chanced to meet George A. Mott, then postmaster in the village. Mott em ployed him on the spot and \Ves” went to work as clerk in his grocery store and became official attendant the time, but in her consternation she ran home and tearfully related what she had seen to her mother. When I heard of it the man had gone.\ The new postmaster will take up his duties in a perfectly regulated office and with every prospect that a free delivery system will be instituted during his term. Petitions have been circulated during the past several weeks, which will be sent on to Wash- in the post office department which | ington urging the postal authorities occupied a space about six feet square I to act favorably upon Box’s applica- ip a corner of the store. I tion. save your time, for when we get mail know I am anxious to hear from you 1 always read it first, and Artie never aboui the . Tell me all, will you , , , . ,r „„ dear? I am going to bed now, to think sees it unless I give it to him. Aouare 7 , I of you, dear, and how sweet you are, nothing but a but-in, so please mind your dear sweet face looklng at me- your own business for we are not; your sweet lips wajting for a kiss. Of coming home. ! course, when you get this, it may be Other additions to this important department | of the village goverment he declared I will be made before the end of his term. In the handling of the village financ es, Cox claims the credit for the inau guration of the present system of maintaining the several funds without transfer, and the improving of the sys tem of bookkeeping in the village office. If there is any opposition to him as a candidate for reelection, Cox be lieves it will come from those who have been curbed by hls crusade against cabaret shows. On one occa sion the Village President, disguised in & slouch hat and flowing whiskers, visited several of Freeport’s hotels as a sleuth member of the police depart ment. He found in several of them that young women were being enter tained with intoxicating liquors and exaggerated dances. Later he issued an order to close these places at eleven o’clock. \I have heard considerable criticism of my action from these people,”-said Cox, ’’but I believe the fair-minded and right-thinking citizens will uphold me in what I have done. At any rate 1 am willing to be judged upon my record.” Randall is reticent concerning his likely candidacy, but his friends de clare that he will oppose the present executive. Ellison does not deny that he is \willin although he states that he has given no serious consideration to the matter yet. Before the close of the month or early in February \MRS. CORNELL.” I day or night. I don’t know, but 1 other candidates are expected to enlist, According to the complaint of Mrs. j want to say, ear, God b ess you. Good probably one m m to nor ern Hicks and the detailed affidavit that night, pweetheart.” accompanied it, her husband has been j ' “Arthur.” wayward for several years. She al- j The following was appended to the leged that during a visit in F orida in | letter which evidently was in response March, 1913, Hick’s conduct was i to one from Mrs. Cornell in which a marked by brutality toward her, and | bit of poetry was enclosed to him: that he was In constant communica- \Thanks for that little verse you tion with Mrs. Cornell in Rockville sent me, dear. I will be home soon, Centre. She states that upon one dear. Every day I think I am getting occasion she chided him for his atten-, better, but I am not well yet, dear, tion to Mrs. Cornell, whereupon hell will speak of you not to Margaret, told her to mind her business. | (Margaret is his wife.) Soon, dear, One of Hick’s letters dated Lake- how sweet that will be. Puella, how land, Fla., March 18, 1913 contains 11 love that name, and love the little the following soulful bit of verse dedi cated., to Mrs. Cornell: MURRAY JAN. 1, 1914 NASSAU POST—TWO ‘Dear, I am strong and working, can’t forget you, Dear, I can nerve my soul to face the night. girl it belongs to.’ Fedden’s A u to Killed Boy trlct and another representing the newly formed taxpayers’ league. The terms of Franklin Bedell and Randall end with the close of the official yekr and both are almost cer tain to be candidate^ for office again. BELLMORE’S STREET LIGHTS Despite Delays Lamps Assured in Scheduled Time According to reports that reached Rockville Centre on Tuesday, George Fedden, of 161 Observer street in that village, was the driver of an automo- But, O, beloved, I cannot face the bue Whieh ran down ten-year-old Isa awaking, Do this for Uiumot endure the tender, dawning light. After deep sleep that seems to end all sorrow, Must I renew the bitter fight at dawn? | while trying to recover it After sweet dreams, which God in I knocked down and run over. dore Margin, in front of hls home at 41 Grafton street, Brooklyn, on the preceding day. The boy was playing in the street with a rubber ball which rolled into the path of the machine. he was He was mercy sends me, j taken to St. Mary’s Hospital by Dr. Must I awake and always find you j Nichols, where he died. gone?\ i ---------------- Hicks offers the following explan ation for his poem: \My dear, this seems to express my| feelings in regard to you, dear. Butj it is not true in all respects. Dear, take time to write me, as you don’t how much I think of your love. Dear, the star does not shine tonight, but I think yon . are looking at It. and thinking of me. Of course, dear, you Despite delays due to frost, Con struction Superintendent McBride of the Nassau and Suffolk Lighting Com pany is proceeding rapidly with the work of installing street lamps in Bellmore, and it is freely asserted that the district will be lighted within the scheduled time. The committee in charge of placing the lights in this district has practically completed its work, and when the lamps have been set, Bellmore will be one of the well lighted villages on the south side. There has been considerable feeling expressed among residents of this sec tion concerning the lighting of the street with gas. and prior to the deci sion of the Town Board, heated con troversy was waged. Since the con tract has been made, however, there has been a natural adjustment of the difficulties. ji. - r r 7 '•“y /
