The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-28
LOVE STRONGER THAN ALL.
Pretty Myrtle Miller Fond of Her
Husband,
NOTWITHSTANDING 4 FAMILY ROW.

I'm Which Her Mothers Face is Dis
figured by Her SOn-tn-Law'sF Fist, or
BOOt-Pathesie Scene I'M she Police
Court.
Will Miller, who was arrested at the
instance of his mother in-law. Mrs. Emma
Bsardsley. yesterday, was released after
the trial yesterday afternoon.
He was charged with striking and
kicking her, and indeed she was sorry
enough sight at the trial, with her cut
and swollen upper lip, held in place with
a strip of courtplaster that reached al
most from ear to ear.
Mrs. Beardsley is the wife of J. l.
Beardsley, respected employe of the
Santa Fe shops, and is a we'll appearing
woman of perhaps thirty-five.
Miller in young man about town of
not more than p who hasn't great rep
utation for industry and spends a good
deal of time about the opera houses.
Four or five years ago Miller was arrest
ed with crowd of boys who broke into
store in the east part of town and was
sent to the penitentiary for one year.
Some time ago he met pretty little
Myrtle Beardsley and she fell in love
with him. He married her last Novem-
Der though he was out of work at the
time and had none in prospect. By COM
mon consent they lived with her parents
until recently, when Mrs. Beardsley
claimed to have discovered that Miller
was paying attentions to women other
than his pretty wife.
Mrs. Miller has had a winters sick
ness and is not yet we'll. She refused to
believe the story.
Wednesday night Miller went home
and to bed. Soon Mrs. Beardsley came
into their room and upbraided Miller
telling him to get out of the house.
Miller got up and dressed and went tell
ing his wife he would come back tho
next day and they woold move their
scant furniture away.
Thursday afternoon Miller returned
to the house with an express wagon to
get his goods.
The story told in police court was that
Mrs. Beardsley refused TO let LIilIer
have his goods until he paid her the
board bill for the winter for himself and
wife. This was the first intimatien
Miller said that he was to pay board
bill and he refused to do it.
There was fight over the furniture
Mrs. Beardsley's witnesses all said that
Miller knocked her down and kicked
her in the mouth. Miilers Witnesses
said she struck him frat knocking him
down and that he then responded by
knocking her down.
The court held that they had both vio-
lated the law in the matter of the goods
and concluded to let the matter rest as
it was by dismissing the case.
The central figure of the trial was
little Mrs. Miller. A slender girl of
seventeen or thereabout with delicate,
refined sensitive features, with pink
and white complexion and and an abund-
aRce of brown hair that any belle might
envy, more than neatly dressed, she sat
on the bench behind the prisoner her
husband, raising her veil now and then
to wipe away the tears that would roll
down her cheeks.
Every disinterested spectator pitied
her.
When she was called forward to testify
she almost sank from weakness before
she reached the witness chair. She
tremb led as she told her story, not from
excitement but from exhaustion, and
after her evidence had been given she
sat down beside her husband, put her
hand lovingly on his knee and sank back
restfully against his shoulder while
he threw his arm across the back of the
seat behind her and held her gently
while they waited for the decision of the
judge.
The trial over, they went away togeth-
er, Miller half carrying her slender
form.
1t was simply case of married too
soon and not wisely, but there was no re-
GREETING.