Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-01


spairng OF having him marry me I de-
Nscd n plan to make him Jealous and
for this reason inserted an ADVERTISE
ment In the paper TO the effect that a
lady OF culture and refinement desired
TO make the home OF an elderly man
bright and pleasant; William Miller as
sisted me In my design and got me "A
postofiice box; in this way / got into a
correspondence with q man named
Powers; finally losing all hope OF
bringing about q public marriage with
Page I left my Correspondence where
afffully angry and abused me ter
rlbly, threatening injury TO me II
continued / did give It out that | was
going to leave him 10 marry another
man II he did not treat me better. in
this my object was to make Page jeal-
Gus and have him openly recognize me
ms HIS wife.
en- September 1898 Joined Or.
Fishers church in Fort Worth and for
two weeks went to services there on
Sunday; finding this out he not only
threatened me. but would remove the
tap from the buggy we Were to so in;
Il was In August 1895 that we had
last serious quarrel about his not re-
cognizing me as his wife; ] demanded
of him that he send for preacher and
make public our marriage; he said
~ would not let one OF the measley
hynoctites enter my house.
My daughter came out and protested
that he have the ceremony publicly
performed; my sun-in-law. II. NJ.
Johnson, also demanded that he openly
declare me MS his Wife that matter
was talked over and finally Col. Page,
on finding I was going TO leave unless
he did consented that Il could hc pub
licly declared to the world that | was
/ hls wife. this was not satisfactory at
| first but finding IL was NIL we could do
{ toward repairing the injury done me.
! We consented 20 It and | stayed there.
/ did meet II. L. Powers three times |
! believe; twice Mt hotels In this city.
| Powers did not come 10 Pages resi-
/ dence for the reason that he would
1 have boon killed had he done SO: I
may have corresppnded with one or
| two other men but " | did so II was
for the reason that | hoped by Jealousy
20 have him page) openly recognize
me MS his wife; on leaving home Col.
! Page always insured his life In my ia
vor.'
Here an accident ticket In the TRAY
clcrs for SG000 was introduced 1t was
issued IN January. 1895, and Endorsed
by Col. II. NJ, Page on the back 10 Mrs.
Il, H. Harris.
Continuing; every time l pleaded
with Col, Page to mako public my mar
rlagc his unavailable and unswervinG
plea was that in the sight OF God and
man we are already man and wife.
lie never attended church and dospiscd
preachers. Tie was very fond of our
little girl. Myrtle, and carried on
corresnpndence with her In the house,
They exchanged these letters or little
notes and IL gave them both ntenre
pleasure, col Page was thoroughly
devoted To little Myrtle, Col. Page
made will. / saw IT, but ala not
read H. lie told me 1t was his VIII
saw the heading OF the Will but did
not read It."
The following note was read In evil
Jrnco.
Fort Worth, Tex, Oct .. lSgi,--rhi'
will certify that there are two pack
ages In my drawer. addressed to Mrs
u, ". Harris. which in the event OF my
death she has the liberty ut taking
pnsscssion of forclbly or otherwise.
"R NJ. PAGE"
for,i,,,,rt. r,itress aotl. 81 did al
.,,, r,,rchasirg fnr the house. Col
q Pave oddresaed Myrtle in various ways
I 40 Of tbtse notes / DESTROYED, bu
t ,rua' so,,,,3 SOW, nn,on, Nyrtlo'a play,
NV l,Ne loull1 SV'ns ,,,i,n,,' y.,ntcd any
uins7 no houobt il II was charged /,
. Col Page. he paid the bills"
. The following was next read In evi
. dcnce:
. My Dear Myrtle; II Is 20 kind ~
YOU to say you will SEQ that am wei
Q tnkpn care of when Old ana tnAl Nol
are uolng to give me nice room an
/ some nice clothes. May you always b
e nm nngcl and live happy. Yours I'll
D death. II, NJ. PAGE
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n gui i 49, tH Gni page, for thi
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4 ueeu VI y, M, "a secure me ylO0
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4 guN' Luz ~ Including ihIrty-on
wy n 10 n',,,,r'i, I ma oiher money du
4 aelea "a g., ahI,rcb az BoIIyille. III;
= ilic y ~ sant mo and turned oy,
was n.y. w. rn,ncmber receIvln
a ssooo 80, - ,ii,,,o. later an. whom co
Il $SVvV ~ oiv s1nt!tnnev fot. snfe kcer
h LaB1 VIZ WI, ~ ria Money 10 William Mi
ii ,lB ! sa'v ~, Win a. under his Milo
Z Ter, VIM s'cpt w" a,nrn Al Tim,
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.c rage Wpulu ~. 49, a. MIN win 90
r. wouiu lh'ei .'.'.'',,,t,,,acd ,vith Miner
rage huu coii ~, a,i,ad mo 10 ioo
lnVlner anu PUG "1
out ior MN -, 49,, ..,..,,,,, ,t.
Here witness declareu ner reIu i =,
tion OF the right 10 adili'Istsr On ~
p Pages estate In favor OF j. 81: LOU
Cross examined, witness .Ga'ine ,
~ "Col. Page desired TO conceal nus ma
he riage to me In Decempei' 1000, iut ~ VI
ness reasons, as ne put ~ hI,u', ,'..i,,
f. he said he did not want IL tnade pun,
ne lust then; while he dld not say So ~