Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-11
EASTERN TOPICS.
Mrs. Norton Tells a Sad
Tale.
SHE LOVED TEN YEARS IN VAIN.
Sensational Development in The
Burlington Conspiracy.
News Nuggets

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| ST. LOUIS, July 1O.-Further kilograms
from Topeka say Judge Laughlin, attor-
ney for Norton, and Mrs. Caswell, an
intimate. friend of Mrs. Norton, arrived
from st. Louis by the noon train and
went directly to the Copeland Hotel
where Mrs. Caswell, after some strong
and bitter words with Moore, made an
earnest appeal to Mrs. Norton to return
to st. Louis. She said:
eff you will 60 back to st. Louis with
me you can return to your homo and
Mr.. Norton will receive you with open
arms. If you don't want to live with
him you can have the old home and Mr..
Norton will go to hotel.''
i At this Mrs. Norton broke into tears
and between her sobs declared she would
not return.
"He will kill me if 1 20 back" she
said; che threatened to take my life and
cannot 60 back. No, will not 90 back;
/ will stay with him love-"
Mrs. Caswell then threw her arms
around Mrs. Norton and again pleaded
with her to return, but she declared pos
itively she would not. Mrs. Caswell then
left her. Mrs. Norton received three
kilograms from friends in Baltimore. to-
day, offering any assistance in their
power to give. While Moore was out of
the hotel this morning, in charge of an
officer,
MRS. NORTON TALKED FREELY
| To the Post Dispatch reporter, and said
something which caused surprise and
, gave rise to much doubt to many of Nor
toms friends. The madame is reported
to have said
IT would never have left st. Louis
with Moore had my husband not threat
ened to take my life. When l went to
: my home on Friday, they told me Mr..
Norton would kill me, and it was in fear
, of my life that l left. No other woman
! but myself could have lived with him
!, ten years, and l merely worshlped him,
but his treatment of me was that
Of brute. He has cursed me !;
, he beat me; he dragged me about like
,, dog, and lived with him because
. loved him-because l thought his heart
= would change. l don't believe there is
man in st. Louis who has as unbearable
and uncomfortable q temper as Norton
has. At times he is like madman. He
! never had cause to think of me other
!. than as loving and dutiful wife, for I
! was most devoted to him in every way.
. When he was sick I never left his bed
side, but watched him day after day and
night after night until was wasted
!. away. Then those statements that
Moore had been visiting our house daily
are
MOST MALICIOUS LIES.
. Why, he had not, during the three
months we lived there, set foot within
my house. Then those stories that we
have stolen Norton's money are Just
simply awful. 1 have not one cent of
. Norton's money, and he knows it. He
knows l have never had his money. I
9 have about $35, 900 of my own money,
which is all have, and our arrest on
the charge of grand larceny in stealing
$40 900 is preposterous."
"Would you object to return to st.
0 Louis :" was asked of Mrs. Norton.
81 do not want to go back if l can help
it, forI am afraid of Norton, but if the
officers say so, we will, of course CO."
Y "What will your friends there think of
this escapade? ?'
3 81 don't care much what they think of
! me; great many of them have turned
> against me, any way. l am not living
for the world 30 much now as for my
: own happiness. l am sorry we are in
this trouble, but it will come out all
right"
III MEETING OF DESERTED.
Mrs. More returned from Manitiou
Springs, Colorado, to-day and went to
her desolate home on Chestnut street
with her little boy. 1t is not known
what her plans for the future are. Mr..
Norton visited her this afternoon and
the interview was very pathetic one.
: The injured wife like a true woman
pleaded for her erring husband and her
child. She begged Norton to drop the
prosecution of Moore for her child's sake,
and during her touching appeal, never
} offered q word of censure for the man
who had so basely treated her. Mrs.
Moore clung to the hope that he would
see the error of his ways and
return to the home he has wreck
ed. The interview was brief, but
it added to the load Norton has to carry;
the wife of the man who has wrecked
his household. depending on his good
ness to save her son and her husband
from everlasting disgrace.
The Order of Elks will hold a special
meeting on Saturday to take action Look
ing to the expulsion Of Moore.
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