Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1916 — WIFE INNOCENT, SAYS LE DUC [ARTICLE]

WIFE INNOCENT, SAYS LE DUC

Chicago Husband Loyally Stands by Eastern “Triangle" Tragedy Victim. Philadelphia, Sept. 29—Joseph C. Le Due of Chicago greeted his wife with words of cheer and comfort when he approached her bedside in Jefferson hospital. He listened with closest attention to every detail of her story of how she went to a room in the Hotel Walton with J. C. Graveur of New York, how Mrs. Belzer stepped from behind a closet door and began shooting. She said she came to see her nephew and his baby. Graveur, she asserted, had been supplied with her nephew’s address and later bad arranged to meet her. She said she did not wish to be bothered with her handbag and that on Graveur’s suggestion had left it in his room. After dancing in the roof garden she returned to get it. Mrs. Belzer then stepped out of her hiding place arid fired. Le Due loyally defended his wife as an innocent victim of the tragedy. When asked how he accounted for Graveur and Mrs. Le Due being registered as man and wife his face became grave. “That was the work of Graveur; I am sure Lillian knew nothing of it,” he exclaimed.