Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-24
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siders. | did paralyze them, too" said Mrs.
Rawson, laughingly.
I'VE went home and one day in September
Mr.. Rawson came to me and said he could
endure the suspense no longer. He must
marry me. He spoke of my little girl and
said she needed some one to care for her and
| introduce her into society was not anxious
to marry him, though and / told him my
past life had been a checkered and sad one.
and never wanted him to throw it up to me-
gave him a package of letters from my di-
vorced husband, Lee They contained the
history of my life, and | told him if he
wanted TO marry me after be had read them
to come and tell me So | have those letters
here i'll court.
Their introduction was objected to- and the
judge thought the objection was good Mrs
Rawson said she wanted the judge to know
all about her, so he could know she was tell
ing the truth, but he said mo one disputes
your word, and the witness continued:
in the south woman's reputation Is above
everything, and the highest compliment can
pay myself is that both my husbands courted
me again after l was divorced from them
After MI Rawson read my letters he
came 10 me and said: i love you better than
ever. If the whole world was against YOU
would love and defend you' / engaged my
self to marry him that night. | went to New
York during the Christmas holidays to buy
my wedding outfit. be followed ME there
suppose because he was afraid would change
my mind. One evening after be had taken
me to my hotel he said: 1t made the tears
come to my eyes to-day to think of YOU work
ing for living. 1t made me think of Flora
Temple hitched to milk cart While in
orb I ha1 oil
eat with him at the Fifth Avenue hotel. We
were married March l, 1856, at my house on
Michigan avenue.
- did not like the actions of Bridget Quig-
lev, the servant be had in the house de-
manded the girls discharge, and Mr.. Rawson
said to me in the presence of that servant:
Madame, you can leave the house if you
don't like it, / saw the look of triumph
spreading over that girls face, and realized
that the marriage was failure, for had ex-
pected to be contented and happy"
Mrs. Rawson gave an account of how Mr..
Rawson tried to make her give up her former
friends. In trip TO Kansas with her hus-
band Mr.. Rawson had introduced to her a
real estate agent named Solomon.
Mr.. Rawson left me in the car with Solo
| mon" said Mrs. Rawson, for a short time
The real estate man, who sat in the same seat
, with me, was very fat, and as | am no fairy
we were pretty close together. Mr.. Rawson
| said had been in a compromising position
| with solomon and made the matter subject
of an affidavit"
Mrs Rawson gave detailed account of the
sleeping-car trip upon which the divorce pro
| ceedincs turned Said she: "One of those
sleeping-car men swore he saw me come to
the train with Mr. Rawson, a white haired
gentleman never saw Mr.. Rawson's hair
white until after we had separated He
always painted his hair and whskers. can
tell you just where he bought his dye The
first time he kissed me the dye came Off on
my lips. The servant girl leased me
about it"
"Did you give him all the attentions of
wifeT
20 yes. Every day he came home he would
have me brush his hair. That is, / used to
rub his head; he didn't have any hair to speak
of. put violet water all over his head l
wiped him off like a barber. One day used
| about half bottle of violet water, for which
paid 81. He told me TO be more careful Of
that bottle; it must have cost as much as 50
cents. That's how stingy he was"
Il expect you'll ask me where got nv pis-
toll" said Mrs. Rawson, as she approached the
time of the shooting. 81 got it in Washington
to defend myself with / was living alone
| and was in constant danger of being annoyed
and entrapped by Mr.. Rawson's detectives.
When l came back from Washington my case
came up again, and l supposed that now the
| Judge would give ice q trial, but there was
Rawson with a lot of affidavit He had afn.
| davits from his coachrnan, his hostler, and
| some more of his hired people. He had one
| from his physician. 1t was paid for. know
| it was, because got one myself once. You
| can get them for S. The clerks at the patent
| Office used to get them"
The week before the shooting Mrs Rawson
said she had scarcely slept an hour and was
| in such condition of mind that che didn't
know what she was doing at times. She
| used to get down on her knees for hours at q
| time
did you sleep on the night before the
shootingf' asked Attorney Crews
"Not wink"
"Did you undressT
mo, walked the floor albnight thinking.
felt as though would go mad, and some
thing that seemed like voice, though I car
hardly describe it as such, cried out: Xii
| him, kill HIM Those words kill him, Kill
him kept ringing in my ears all night and the
next morning, in dazed condition, started
for the court house, where Mr.. Whitney
| wasD
did YOU hear what Gen. Stiles told your
mo, did not. l felt bewildered, and II
the court room J did not hear the sound q