Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-22
Mrs. Leslie Carter Feeling Keenly Her
Present Disgraeed Position and
Helplessness.
She Alleges Her Husband Does Not Believe
Her TO Be Guilty-BitteF Railing
at the Press.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

in the social lists. Everybody's hand is
against her She has lost caste, honor
and even the means OF subsistence, and
her child is taken from her. How does a
delicately nutured woman feel as she
faces the necessity of living out her life
in the face of all this?
That is what Mrs Leslie Carter tried
to tell here to-day
81 have poor word or two in my
head, she said ''that should be spoken
now. 1t is not much. What can L one
defenseless woman, do or say to wash
myself somewhat clean? In my
heart do not believe my own husband
considered me guilty of the vile things
charged against me. He has been I'M
willing to see me, fearing that he would
have TO acknowledge as much. AS for
some Of the testimony, it was
so MAN1TEsTIY MANUFACTURED
that nobody in court or out believed it.
Could I a deiicately bred woman with at
least the ordinary impulses OF common
decency which q life amid refining in
fiuences cannot fail to give one-could l i,
do you think, have been guilty of the
silly, the common intrigues charged
against me? Why, would be worse
than those unfortunate creatures yonder
who claim kinship with the streets. -
She was sitting at window overlook
ing Madison square, and speaking she
moved her hands with mute gesture of
appeal out toward the park.
fTHE HORROR OF IT
cannot ever be told, - she went on, half
to herself. eff l were only the brazeu
creature l am said to be, if some of the
Of FL ind
only true, then all this might come to me
with less intensity OF feeling. L cannot
realize that it is about whom is all this
evil talk. 1 ask myself whether the
creature painted in all these reports is
the girl used to know, is the mother of
my boy, is the woman who still loves her
own mother and has at least the refuge of
her arms. It seems like some hideous
nightmare. Is there another character
in the history or fiction of our day VINO
has had to bear as much? Can any fur
ther degradation come to me?
Is there any form of pOllu-
ton that can besmirch me still? Has
it ever been that an innocent woman
is pointed out to a whole continent for
the thing men name below their breath?
Even if L were guilty is not my punish
meat severe beyond all proportion? Was
ever woman so banlshed from all that is
good and lovely and pure. 1t is as if [
had vicariously took upon mpself all the
sins of my sex and bore the scourging
alone for all. And what have done to
deserve it? I have dined with my friends,
gone to entertainments, driven with
them in my own carriage, and done only
those things which n woman in my sta
ton of life is expected to do. Let my
case be forever an example and
WARNING TO ALL WOMEN.
Let them not for q moment forget that
cruelest of all things-that they are
women. That was my sin. l was a
woman, a word was spoken against me,
and see the result.
81 do not feel any more divorced than
I did two years ago. For five years Mr..
Carter has not materially contributed TO
my support. Ny mother and my friends
helped me to live, and when 1 tried 90
show this in court it was ruled out.
Judge Jameson lost no opportunity to
decide against me. Why, ne would adj
NIT half of a letter favorable to Mr..
Carter and strike out the half favorable
to me- The day of my cross eXamina-
ton knew that, though l were
PURE AS HEAVEN ITSELF,
y
had too much money, too much iHflu-
ence, was Chicagoan, and the public
press was with him to a unit. But the
case has gone to the appellate court and
the chances, I feel, are q million to one
that l shall get a new trial. l must have
it; must have my boy.
"Let me tell you how it all began.
Three years ago l was very Ill, and only
weighed 103 pounds. The ply
sicians and Mr.. Carter thought
a trip abroad would do me
good. / went to Europe by advice of DR..
Fowler, who was consulted by both Mr.
Carter and myself. Dr.. Fowler consid-
cred me in q most critical condition and
adv std change and freedom. Mr.. Car
ter knew this, and several times
said he thought was not in my right
mind. Yet he allowed me TO go with a
maid alone, and when she and the ply
sician wrote that | was i'll and begged
him to let my mother and Dudley come
to me he refused and also
REFUSED TO COME HIMSELF.
During all the months [ was at DR..
King sauitarium he continued with his
brother to misTepresent and malign me.
6e went in this country and in Europe to
hotels and shops to try to get statements
Of some bad conduct on my part, and he
even went to my own friends TO induce |
them TO testify to anything, however |
trivial, against me. He took every DOS
'Ibie advantage Of my being alone, with |
Iut single male relative to defend me- |
He used money and influence unsparingly |
against me and distorted my most limo |
cent act in a way to iujure me. He re-
used to let my boy visit me when l was
Il, and even when told that my recovery |
would be fastened by seeing Dudley, |
aging to DR.. King: Il do not think her |
Jest interests lie in recovery, and should |
he recover her reason, when she finds |
ny friends cut her, the
HUMILIATION WILL KILL. HER,
for she is seusitiTe. When did recover
re said to DR.. King: 4 cannot under
itand the ways of Providence in allowing |
ger to get well.
''T think MIR Carter's family con-
pired to ruin me, for during all the time
was in EHrope Mr.. Ca n kept every |
ett6r I sent him and copies of all letters |
lie wrote TO me, and in court such por-
ions OF this correspondence were intro
uced that best served their purpose.
Ir Carter said TO me that he did not be-