Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1919 — SENATOR NEW’S STATEMENT AS TO MURDERER’S CLAIM. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR NEW’S STATEMENT AS TO MURDERER’S CLAIM.

Senator Harry S. New of this state issued the following statement Monday night regarding the arrest in Los Angeles on a charge of murder of Harry S. New, who claims to be a son of the senator: “I have just this to say about the whole deplorable matter. More than thirty years ago, when I was in my twenties and unmarried, I knew Mrs. Burger. There was never any question es marriage between us. Conditions arose which I do not care to dispute which resulted in my doing everything in my power to make amends then and later. Whatever I did in that direction was of my own accord and no one else had anything to do with it whatever. The affair was ended thirty years ago. Since that time the people of my home city are the best judges of what my life has been. I never have shirked any responsibility that has come to me and never shall.”