Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-13
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TWO LIVES DARkENED.
sAD RESULTS OF TIE MISTAKES
MADE BY A HUSBAND AND WIFE.

MADE BY A HUSBAND AND WIFE.
A Quiet Little Cottage That Eas Been the
Scene of Tragedy-A Story with
..Richard Hare in It-A Wife's Little
Secret and q Husbands Rash Judgment.
''That's a pretty, home like little place,
isn't itl' asked fellow passenger Of Com
gnercial man or al incoming Lexington train.
The little place" referred to was a cottage
home not MANY miles THIS side Of Lexington,
half mile bach, from the railroad, ana seen
from the train window with all Of Its pretty
environments did lco6 hike refuge for hap
pness in a refined state OF purity, where some
loving couple, free from the perplezlJies and
sins of the world, might find a foretaSte of
heaven ''Wen," continued the speaker, as
the train Jew by other scenes just as pretty,
s'there IS a tragically sad story connected
with that place about which but little has
ever been published, and the true inwardness
of which but very few know. Five years
ago il was the home Of as happy a pair Of
moderately wealthy yong people as could be
found in the state. They had youth, wealth,
name as well known and untarnished as
that of any of the old families IN this section,
and a little daughter in whom was conferred
their combined love. They ought to have
been, and l believe were, Us happy as any
couple in the state.
THE FIRST MISTAKE.
zone afternoon the wife received a letter
postmarked at a little town in Indiana, pesr
where she had lived when she came 20 Ken
lucky on a visit and met the man she after
ward loved and wed. She laughingly told
ment that she had secret and would
have to 20 to Louisville. lie at that time
knew but little about his wife's Indiana hns-
people, whom he had only seen at the time of
their wedding and on the two or three visits
he had made at her home during the brief
engagement which followed their meeting in
Kentucky. He never wondered Mt his wife5
conduct that day at the start and assisted
Der off to the train next morning half jest
tnglv demanding the author Of the ietter
which called her away. She never told him,
however, and his parting words were a eau
ton not to miss the evening train, as he and
baby would be uneasy and loselY.
The woman had made the first mistake of
her life in not telling heF husband the truth.
She was on her way to meet a scape-Tace
of brother who had written pleading for
an interview and for a little money, for which
he dared not go home She reached Louis
vile, went to the Gait house. near the depot,
registered, and sent for the brother, who
came, and with whom she talked long
enough to miss her train. The telegram she
sent reached the station we Just passed, for
sone reason, later than the train she should
have been on, and the minute the latter pass
ed the young husbands anxiety was convert
ed into something like jealous fright. lie took
the next train for Louisville, reached there
after dark, and at the clerks desk in the Gait
found that his wife was in room - Have
boy show me up, said he registering the
Same name farther down the page; she IS
my wife, and then be looked strangely at the
clerk, who, with peculiar smile, had said:
SHE has a visitor nova gentleman, who
called early in the day
"Well, 10 make a short story Of it. he beat
his card to the door, and with feelings he
himself did not understand burst into the
room, his face livid with rage, and a cry of
what does this meanH The Young wife,
who was even then deprecating to her broth
er the mistake which was keeping her away
from home, read in her husbands face and
demand all he thought and was Mortified in
return. Too indignant to Immediately ex-
plain, she stood staring at him with wat he
WIS u tLlli itLh utibdI citiLtfl DN re
knew NOT what he struck her down, and
turned to the brother, who had escaped to
the bah and down the stairs, leaving the out
ragged sister TO explain to her misguided hus
band. The latter followed too late to find
him, and telling the clerk in Il strange voice
that his wife would remain all night and that
he wouldn't, left the hotel.
BITTER EEGRETs.
cha cTlaut the piphf lxa II-iuor tho e4l,aatS
and watching the hotel entrance for the man
he fully intended 10 murder How the Young
wife spent that night VIII never be known
She must have been already mad when next
morning she returned home and, packing
few of her belongings, seized her child and
was leaving her home never TO return Ii
was at the head of the stairs, in a bind rage,
with her child in her arms, that her foot
caught in the carpet, and she and the little
one were dashed TO the landing below. The
babys head, with the weight Of the mother
added, struck on the first post of the banis-
Uers and two hours later she was dead. The
half crazcd husband reached his home five
minutes after the accident and it was over
their dying child that they came TO under
stand the terrible mistake that each. and he
especially, had made. She was wholly insane
before the hearse came back from the little
grave where all their happiness, past and to
come, was laid.
'She has been ever since an inmate of the /
asylum at Lexington The ruined man lives
with his aged mother IN the little home e
passed ami is little more than a hermit. You |
may occasionally see han at one Of the race |
meetings in Louisville, the only kind OF /
amusement he seems 70 ever seek, but he /,
looks older than men OF twice his age and |
shows the burden be hears Is a terrible one /
Not a half dozen people who knew them |
know THAT his mistake drove his wife to the /
act which killed her child and made her /
maniac. 1t was presumed by every ono that /
the little one tel while 1t play and that her /
mothers devotion was too strong for her
Gehcately strung system 10 bear the shock
which derhroned her mind n-Louisville Com
alerclal
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