The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-03
KISSED AND DEPARTED.
Bride Weeping After rhe i4oss OF Husband
of Two Months.

| Yesterday morning the early pedes
trians on North Main street heard cryi ng
and moaning in the Hank Heiserman
| block that would do credit TO the banshee
| of one of the oldest fam lies in ireland
| The first impression, of course, was that
| there was a sad death in the home and, of
course. no stranger took interest enough
| TO go upstairs and see what the trouble
| was. Constable Tom Voss who could not
sleep OH account of the excessive heat and
! an industrious aggregation OF chiggers,
which had taken possession OF him while
hunting criminal through the weeds the
previous day, came down early to his
Office and hearing the crying and the
moaning, hastily went TO investigate the
cause of the same. He assembled the two
flights of stairs and found Mrs. Lee wiring
ing her hands and in deep grief over
the loss of her husband who. she
said, had left for parts unknown
leaving her lone grass widow to battle
with the cruel cold social elements of this
world. Lee, the husband OF this grief
stricken lady was tonsorial artist on
North Main street and shaved some of the
SWEETEST men of the town for he was good
barber and polite fellow, generally. He
was widower until about two months
ago and an enthusiastic church member
He could talk religion from morning till
night and could quote scripture like a
minister of forty years standing in the
church. He was first married six years
ago to Miss Spencer who died year or
two after their marriage. Two months
ago he took her sister to the alter of the
probate judge and there pledged to love-
honor and cherish her till death should
part them. They lived happily for twenty
four hours or whereabouts and then the
serenity of their conjugal bliss he
gan to get disrupted. For the
succeeding thirty days they did
not love one another so very well but after
that they began to love each other fairly
well again. Night before last after get
ting through with his work he went up
stairs to their room and told her he was
going to lodge for few hours and kissed
her sweet good bye till he would return
again. She waited and waited but he did
not return. When the first streaks of
dawn shot through the keyhole she mo-
ticed letter under the door and opening
it she found seven pages of manuscript in
AOi hCt tudo AC AnA SOho ouo iCAe ACh
and that she would never see his face
again on this side of eternity. It was this
information that caused her to 60 into
the spasms of grief that Constable Tom
Voss found her in. She was still crying
at o'clock last evening when the EAGLE
reporter interviewed her to whom she
told the foregoing story in substance.
She said she was 10 years old and
was married to Lee little over two
months When asked how long previous
TO their marriage L were engaged she
laughed heartily anu said they were not
engaged at all and then resumed her tears
again. 1t is stated that her big brothers
objected to the marriage and Lee told
some friends that they even went to far as
to carry shot gun for him immediately
preceding the marriage ceremony. She
thinks he treated her very bad aud ex-
pressed the belief that he would never
again show up in bis neighborhood al
though his year-old child is with her
whose aunt aud step-mother she is CON-
bined.