Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-12
As PURE AS SNOW.
ssch Was Lucille Kirby at Her Mar.
riage' as Represented by Her
Relatives.
a Defense Of Tho Dead and an Arraien.
mc"' OF Her Husband, whois Charged
with the Final Catastrophe.

ANsoN, JON, CO., rrN., oct.p
To the Edlior Of the Galcttc
We wish 70 make some corrections in
your statement OF Oct IN regard 20
Lucille Kirby.
You state that her family was living
AZ DenisOn at the time Of her clopemcnt
With W. T. Carpenter. Her parents never
did live In Dcnison-- but were living three.
miles east OF Carpenters ranch AZ The
time OF the clopement. You also stated
that her acquaintance with Carpenter was
only about six months previous 10 the
marriage. Carpenter was well known la
us, for be had visited our family more
than eighteen months before the mar.
rlage.
lon state that Carpenter returned the
misguided girl To her parents and rave
her $1,000 In cash Carpenter brought
her 70 Abilene and her parents had her
brought from there home. Carpent.r
left on deposit with Chas. Goldberg.
merchant Of Abilene, 500 10 use In behalf
of the poor child he had ruined,
aud that 500 was all he
ever gave TO her for support.
You state that Carpenter was y duiilnl
aud loving husband aud that thcfc were
rumors of her not being of good charac-
! ter from the time she was twelve years
old, all of which is as false as the black
| heart OF the one that made such state
ment. Carpenter had the girl stolen and
sent of some two or three DAYS before he
! followed, and as soon rs he started her
father swore ont a writ charging him
with the abduction of his child sheriff
Cole followed after Carpenter and ar.
rested him in Fort Worth, hut as he
claimed that his intentions were honor.
aplc and he expected TO marry ~ soon as
he could make arrangements about The
arrest, Cole released him ON bond IN The
I sum of $500. Carpenter took the child
} 20 MuskOgee, | r., aud they were mar
rled on the 18th of January, $50, 10y Rev
Theodore + Brewer. Tho poor child
gave the following history OF what fol
lowed TO her mother nitei
she came back home She sale
Carpenter began to tell her o.
her poverty and how much he had saeri
4 feed and wanted her 10 be TO him oull
as his mistress. This she reinscd to do
Then he took her 70 Dallas, gave he
wine until she was almost ont OF her rea
sou, took her To houses Of prostitution
aud left her there TO care for herself
She left md went to the hotel, aud thei
the talk of her disgrace commenced
They went from Dallas 10 Fort Worth
and there Carpenter left her at some no
tel, without protection la the way of al
attendant. Il was not long before som,
OF his friends revived the Dallas story
/ Then followed attentions from this frlcn,
aud that friend OF Carpenters, all accom-
panied by wine, until the poor child sait
that Carpenters m trcatmentand.the pois
on of the wine hually conquered, am
her virtue gone, her reason destroyed
her breath poiaOncd with wine, and be
Innocence gone, she was taken TO Adj
lcne, and her poor parents brought he
home. The balance, dear reader, Is
I very easily told history.
The same agencies were employed 4
work against her after she was brough
| home Her friends commenced 10 tai
/ and TO slight and her enemies 10 cour
| and persuade until finally the poor chill
r thought She had no friends only thcs
, friends of Carpenters Cwho were lac
real enemies, and they finally persuade
: her away the second time. one ste
downward to another brings rs 10 th
terrible end.
. And now, dear reader, you may iudg
i OF the injustice To the poor child who
: lying In deaths ncyer-ending slumhor
. the Fort Worth cemetery, aud ask God I
4 be muUilul to her and also 90 those wll
h caused her ruin
/. Trusting for comfort IN Gods rio
q promises, we ARE poor Lucllle's parent
and brothers, h. and g. 5 knlT
n X G. and A. Is. ktuN