Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-21
A Lady EvaDFeiisi Falls from Grace and
ssOes 10 the Fad.

ST. LOUIS, November 20.-Two DAYS ago
woman giving her name as Mrs. Matte
Saunders came to grief in Chicago. She, it
seems, landed some time ago in Chicago
in an embarrassed condition financial
ly, aud, afIer renting rooms on Wabash
avenue, found that she was unable TO pay
the rent. She left the house, leaving the
landlady in charge OF her wearing apparel,
and applied at the door OF another house
for admittance. The proprietress of the in
stitutiou, taking compassion upon the appli-
cant, took her in and rescued her trunk
from the clutches of the landlady by paying
the rent due. The new acquisition TO the
army OF Magdalens told the proprieiress of
the house, Mrs. Little, that she had at one
time been an evangelist in the church, and
her extraordinary blasphemy and profanity
tended to prove the assertion. She was
quarresome, and soon attempted to leave
Mrs. Titles house without compromising
Mrs. Little for the money expended in re-
deemipg the trunk. The result was quar-
rel and fight, in which Mrs Saunders was
knocked over a trunk aud was injured go
badly that she had TO be removed TO the
hospital. 1t was thought that she would
die, and she made an ante norton 81 atement,
which appears in tina Chicsgo Herald thus:
Mine has been a sad downfall. But am just
il is not through any fault OF mine that became
Magdalen. All the work 1 did was accomplish ed
at my o IN expense. When my funds gave out my
friends deserted me. There was a cloud over my
name at the time, for had secured divorce from
my husband only short time before. 1 married
him when was eighteen and went with him to
Emporia Ks, where he kept store. His name
was W, w. Page. and ne was considerably my
senior in age, and in other respects untitled to APP
Preeiate me. We moved to Parsons, Ks, then 10
ST. Louis. There he went to work for Knapp,
Stout & Co., lumber merchants and soon noticed
he was paying too much att ntion to other women.
The upshot of this course was that 1 obtained a
Prior 10 this had separated from him. and the bill
was granted while was in Kansas IL ctuIing. This
II was that turned the public against me. When
my means gave out was alone in the world, and
the first step downward was as much necessity
as 1t was matter OF temptation. Ny first bad act
was coue IN St Louis: | was too well known
there to lead that kind of life without being
detected, so left and went 10 Kansas City. The
people OF the Second Baptist rhurch in St Louis
with whom had been connected in Bible WORK,
dealt out spaIingiy and was not enough to sup
port nae l entered 3 notorious house IN Kansas
City kept by Kit Brown, and shot at her day in
a quarrel. had to leave to avoid the conse-
quenees. and have been in Chicago ever since.
The physicians attending her at the Chi
cago hospital have expressed an opinion that
she is insane. She appsars 10 he about twenty
seven years of age, and at the time she was in
jured svery we'll dressed Sne claims to
have labored for several months with the
7. NJ. {. A. OF st. Louis, and knew a num-
Der OF prominent church members.
Mr.. w. w. Page, deacon If the Second
Baptist church, who is, perhaps, the Oldest
member of the congregation, seen with
reference to the fallen evangelist, and at
frs, he could not definitely locate her until
he heard her story. Then he remarked that
a certain lady evapgelis: who had been in
this city about ten years ago had had his
tory resembling that OF the Chicago woman IN.
This woman was engaged in The mission
work 10 THE city, and wss never quite popu-
lar with the ladies whom she encountered in
the work. By many she was regarded as in
sane, as she told most remarkable stories OF
miraculous visions and manifest alton. She
WAS educated, and claimed TO be
foriune-teller. She, however, had
trouble with her husband, and soon
the church members began 10 avoid
her. She, il seems, deserted two husbands,
one OF whom came crying to Mrs. Page
about the matter, as the lady who worked so
much for religion took up the household
goods and cha'tels and went away with
them. The woman then event to he bad"
First she secured washing from the women
of the town, and at last by a gradual but
rapid decline became one o. them. She left
The city and went to Texas, where she was
last hesrd from two yesrs ago. She, too,
was married to her husband az the early age
Cf eighteen. The woman's name was Mr..
Hass, and she, while working in his city
changed her name several times. She was
supported in her work and received help
very frequently from Mrs. Page. II is cup
posed that Page is only one OF her aliases,
chosen 10 mislead the people. 1t is thought
that she is the womsn who has cone to grief
in Chicago. As il il, however, Mrs. Haas ia
The only evangelist ever connected with the
Second Baptist church who has fallen, and
10 some it seems almost certain that Mrs.
Haas and Mrs. Matte Saunders are one and
the same person.