The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-02
SHE LOVED NOT WISELY.
A Tallahassee Woman Deserted Here
by Her Betrayer.

A Tallahassee Woman Deserted Here
by Her Betrayer
A sad case of loving not wisely but TOO
well has been brought to light in the west
ern part of the city. A young woman here
tofore respected, and moving in respectable
society in Tallahassee, Fla, is now at the
house of an old colored woman Oh Orange
street in penury and want, with a two
weeks old child to care for. Her betrayer,
she says, is dry goods and grocery clerk
of Tallahassee, and last night the proper
authorities at that place were notified by
| telegraph to take the necessary measures
| to compel the man who wronged her, and
whose name was given, to make reparation.
After her betrayal the young woman says
that her betrayer sent her to Savannah and
promised to come on himself in a day or
two and look after her. She came here,
paying for her ticket, and stopped at pri-
vate boarding house, where she remained
| for two weeks. Her false friend had sug
| gested to her that she should give her name
as Annie Lee Jones, which she did. But the
two weeks passed and he did not come. In
stead, he wrote to her, suggesting that she
find some quiet place with an old colOred
woman, and when her child was born to de-
| sert it and return to Tallahassee and the
world would be no wiser. The
girl does not say in as many
words that her betrayer cOunseled
a more CRUEL treatment for the child than
desertion, but from her conversation the in.
ference is plain that this was the first sug
gestion-the last one of desertion was per-
sistently made i'll the letters he wrote her.
She found lodging with colored woman,
ANNE CASTOR, at Farm and Orange streets.
The child was born two weeks ago, but the
maternal instinct was too strong for the
mother to follow the counsel of her betrayer.
She wrote him earnest letters asking him to
rescue her and her child from the poverty
and misery which surrounded them. To one
Of these piteous appeals he sent her $40 but
coarsely refused to care for the child, and
repeated his counsel that she should desert
1t and come back to Tallahassee SO that
himself and she should never be suspected.
Sixty dollars is all that she had to pay for
her board and meet her other expenses.
That this was inadequate need II be told.
When MORNING News reporter saw her
last night she was sitting i'll low rocker
by a rude bed in the corner of a scantily
furnished room. A chimneyless lamp re-
vealed the pallid features of petite bru
nette of Is or 20 years. whose large brown
eyes seemed to have been recently wet with
tears. Often she bent over the bed where
her little blue-eyed daughter lay innocent
of a mothers sutferings and a mothers
room and the girl told her sad story
She had hesitated up till then TO expose the
villain who had sent her among strangers
and into such rude and uncouth assoca-
tions promising to shield her from ruin
and deal justly by her. and only when she
learned that she was likely to be turned out,
even from this shelter, in helplessness and
weakness, moneyless and friendess, and
with her child, did she consent to reveal by
what thorny path she had come to her
present state, and give her real name and
the name of her betrayer.
She said that both of them were MEM
bers of the Methodist church in Tallahassee
in good standing; that her name had, until
now never been impugned, and while she
felt the singing disgrace she would not
consent to add the worse crime of murder
or desert her child to shield the father or
herself from the unfriendly criticisms of the
world.
Her sad case was brought to the attention
of one of the Justices of the Peace in this
city last night and sympathizing friend
persuaded her to be governed by his coun-
sell which resulted in the telegram to the
authorities at Tallahassee alluded to above.