Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07


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SUMMERS ROMANCE.
The Love-Powder Woman's
Story.
Gen. Ankcny returned day or
two since from the Penitentiary,
where he had been to escort Mrs. DIR.
Summers, the love powder woman,
who is to be the guest of Uncle Sam,
Seth Craig, landlord. While enroute
the prisoner detailed to the Marshal
what purported to be history of her
life. The officer didn't feel bound TO
believe it, nor the reader needn't UNI
less he shall choose so to do. But for
all that it's a good yarn and well told.
In brief the romance detailed to Gen.
Ankeny was as follows:
/ am the daughter of esquire" Dag
gett, formerly of Ottumwa but now
of Missouri. lie was at one time an
extremely wealthy man in Illinois, but
reverses in business impaired his for
tune and he removed to Wapello
county, Iowa. There he was, for
many years, Justice of the Peace,
and I acted as his clerk. My mother
was the second woman that was ever
graduated from a medical college in
the United States, and thus / receiv-
ed my first desire TO become q physi-
clan. In pursuance of this studied
incidence in Ottumwa and then in
vested in two full courses of lectures
al medical college. Then removed
to Des Moincs, and while there mar
ried Jeremiah Cady, of the East City,
and after time returned to Ottum-
wa. One child was the result of this
union. Subsequently Jeremiah and
l separated by mutual consent and
were formally divorced. continued
the practice Of medicine at Ottnmwa
until had accumulated $1,000, when
Summers came along and captivatcd
my fancy and I again INDUCED in
matrimony. Summers turned out to
be succession of bad seasons. He
drank bad whisky, kept bad compa-
ny, roamed and rambled and squan-
dered my money and kept me con-
tinually on q tramp. Finally we
came to a halt in Kansas City, and
our cash on hand showed that but 1if-
ty dollars remained from our origi-
nal seventeen hundred. Summers
was the purse bearer and he signaliz-
ed our entrance into the city by en-
gaging in . big spree, regular two
story bust. A week elapsed before ]
saw him again, and by that time the
exchequer had been reduced to $3.50,
Board bills were due and the cashier
4 was drunk. With this balance com.
pounded a face wash and started out
to peddle it with such good success
that in three weeks time we had paid
all our bills and passed $3.50 to the
reserve fund. Still Summers would
not reform and finally we left the
fertile Geld of face wash and hied
away
1 TO DIES MONIES.
i Here we engaged in business and
were doing well, but Summers wan
dered off to Sioux City and took {
contract to drink up all the money
enroute through that place for thu
Black Hills. This required consider.
able whisky, and at length refused
to contribute any longer to his sup
port unless he would come to De-
Moines and settle down like Chris
tian gentleman. Then he came ant
with the
J LOVE POWDER SCHEME
i'm His head He unfolde1 his tale I'm
refused to entertain ii. The frs
thing knew, however, the circular
and advertisements had been printed
and were brought by Summers to m!
room. He wished me to aid in mail
ing them, but I refused to do so. w
, qnarrclcd seriously over the matter
but was firm, and SO he did tn
work himself. In due time answer
: began to come, many of them con
tanning money. | still declined Il
have anything to do with the trans
action, and never any of the letters
: except the dccoy letter from Com
stock, to which / replied In Summers
. absence, who had returned to Siou,
: City. This was the letter that wrough
, my ruin. The day l was arrested
had packed up all the letters and ad
vertisements to ship them to Sum
: mers, intending to have nothing to d.
with the business. If the arrest hat
been delayed two hours they woult
: all have been i'm the express Office ant
all the evidence against me woult
have disappeared.
4 THE POWDERS
are composed of sugar, chalk an
ground licorice.
In reply to the question where Sum
{ mers was at present, she replied tina
when they left Kansas City there wa
about 500 due her on good notes
Expecting to he fined, sent Sum
mers to collect them. He did SO bu
failed to return, sending letter no
tifying me that 1 would never sc,
him again. Since then have learn
ed enough to satisfy me that
| SUMMERS Is A SCAMP.
| He is fine-looking, fascinating il
manner, and calculated to trifie will
the ordinary feminine heart. Thi
appears to have been his principal oc
cupaticn. His mode Of operation
WAS 10 Hnu sOIilc lculaic tHut noe
money, court, and if necessary, mar
ry her, get possession Of the cash. ant
then intertwinc with the wOodbine
He is numerously married. One o.
his matrimonial adventures took place
at Cedar Rapids, where he married ,
young girl with $500, with which h
fed, after a honeymoon of one week
duration.
AT Boone, he courted nine-hun
dred- dollar widow, became engaged
to her, borrowed the money, wen
away and forgot to come back. Thes
are but two Of numerous escapades o
the same kind.
She stated that she was thirty-fou
years old. While in prison she pro
poses to prepare lecture on peniten
tiary life, to be delivered after he
term Of sentence shall have expired
i Concerning her trial, she spok
t kindly of Judge Love, but said sh
protested to her counsel against tn
defense he proposed to make, aver
I ing that conviction must be the re
sult..-Statc RegiSter.