The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-15
MADE LOVE OVER THE GATE.
MRS. VARIOUS WASN'T DITORCRD YET
AND CHAMBERLAIN KNEW II.


On the Breach OF Prouise Suit which th
Divorced Mes. wstrou. Has BrouGh
Aesin.t IHira for Not Marrying Her
New LONDON Oct lathe Superior Cour
in this city has had fun enough trying tn,
watrous- Cam berlain breach Of promise Of
marriage suit In Colchester this week to keel
its temper sunny for the rest OF the year
Everybody with leisure came to court daily t.
see the pretty little red-cheeked village wo
man. Alice A. Watrous. skilfully essay to ht
up young Farmer Rosy Chamberlain in Q
hard knot Of hymenial webbing.
Mrs. watrous. who belongs to one Of the
smart families In tho big isolated rural village
OF Colchester, in the northern part Of this
county. and who Is youthful. petite. and OF a
lively disposition, had a husband year or 90
ago: but she didn't think great deal
OF hi.a. and. having satisfactorily fixed
things in her own mind to get her
sef divorced from him ut her first OPP
portunity. sho readily encouraged Farmer
Chamberlain. when he came a-wooing her. to
believe that che would be his just ns soon as
tho trivial matter OF the divorce had been set
tied. Rossy is good looking. smart, and
thrifty. with a big farm near the beautiful viii
laee and there is no doubt the way in which
he and Alice went a-sparkin' and re-sparkin'
10 q caution to people who do not want to get
mixed up in breach-o promise snarls. for he
said % himself In court.
The sparkling. mostly. was done on the sly.
naturally. for the reason that when woman
10 sparkling with q prospective second nus
band before she has been iudicially separated
from her objective first husband she is rather
Inclined to 20 slow and keep In the middle OF
and Alice spanked at night at the front gate OF
the Wntrous home at the side Of the road.
sAr sS In the wa RSSis th &, dssard
cd husband. read the papers and d,, frownedi
Seens nso his lis
and cosey parlor. Watrous. it appears, from
the testimony in court. is not at gu what y
in Colchester; and there is not an instance on
record in the Colchester courtshlp. in which
he pranced out OF his house and upset the
gate. as many a mean man would have done.
no doubt, on which the courtship was pivoted.
seSms he Is roai hiSe man n r tet as they
his parlor and read the papers. and let the
lovers 90 their own gait.
on one especially dreamful. romantic. and mo-
mentous night. dnsky and melodious with the
shrpnE Of lns SECT kos ssS and o Aes hpnE
And what we're you talking about all that
picked and auiSzicai look. . "' Wa
Oh. don't recollect as much Of ANYTHING"
in general. s'pose. and nothing in particular"
-, BIT what were you doing Tor four hours on
Waal." responded the farmer reluctantly.
after about a minute OF serious and appar..
entity mournful .self-communing. "waal. !
s,pose | was trying to got her to kiss me all
And she wouldn't doi.G"
WAL, no, not exactly"
Mrs. Watrous Is schoolmarm.
The case was on tria! all tho week. and the
principals In the suit did almost all the testi-
her husband several months ago. testified that
the current Of their eourtship ran smoothly
ask a lover to be. he called on her on Sunday
and OF three rec t%ss week besides
parties and village balls and evening meet
,ngs t and once. after M,s party; he took
home IN his is sleigh. Rosy sitting betwe ees
, , on the he. naErSTS seat and drying
lain. and on that occas sion he said he loved her
!, got her divorce from Watrous." In u similar
happy way their wooing went on during the
e acted vary. differently"
DO seemed morosa and distant and taciturn.
p5s adss oh h%
and WHIT sNss the cause Of his chilling de- |
hHss ns sas marry
q their, Wedding to bitE. fertilizer for the
dded that he couldn't AFFORD to pay for the
narriage and the fertilizer both.
nut out over this sordId and pure! y aeric G.tur-
i calculation and conclusion. and alter bro6t-
iad rest; she engaged LAWYER and Deacon
Day Of to brine Sns
l2OOQ In damages from him on account OF
rs broken .rott.,, Deacon and LAWYER Dav.
most OF New London county and Chairman Of
he Republican state Central Committee. did
verytning that Mrs. Watrous asked as rapidly
ut would permit.
but Rossy who is not without craft. had
er TO return to him ali the love ietters-about
peck-he had written her during his Seem
All pd hs at ths
rdent. which she had indicted to him. both
Ihlle she WAS tho spouse Of old Wstrous"
hat Watrnus Is exactly aged in years: he is
DO old man" only in. common parlance. in
~ n hneetlonately inmli!ar and endearing rural
hossy's turn came nextin court He testified
lad an Sres ss hat
. indulgently let her do 1t. put as for marry
hing, and never. promised that he would Wed
SssS ~ d Tss S:sa Sl SINGS n
oInseI. Il. n. DOUGLASS Of SorMieh.
nirodueed Mrs wetrous's, love letters in
the fondest and most entertain
ne ones We're read to the Judge The letters.
many q them. glow with devotion and sigh
nd paipitate with entreaty; In them the
important. Of her. daily. household life aud
most OF them are from eight to twelve pages
Ping. In ono Alice solemniy uverred that she
never. never gould be happy with any other
'erson on earth but her own boy Rosy"
nd then che promised repeatedly that she
arth." exceptthe same dear boy"
Furthermore. she couldn't endure that he
hould go with any other girl except his Alice.
nd. she added ,patheticaily. that II he ever
hould cease to love her or II his love should
row cold. she did not care then whatever be-
anne OF her. In another long epistle sheentreat-
d him to write to her oftener saying that she
eftainly would forgive al his mistakes-
pistolary ones-because she knew that he
Ias not q school teacher" The letters were
Introduced In court to prove that IL the de-
endant ever promised to marry the fair plain
III. the promise was made at the time when
he was still married woman. and conse-
uently was not a valid one.
Rossy himself, after describing his pro-
onged nocturnal tryst on the gate. in four