The San Francisco call., 1897-11-07
Of Course the Colonel Re-
turned, but the Renewed
Bliss Was Not Lasting.
GUSHING AFFECTION AND
AN AWAKENING.
Finally the Wife Refused to Support
Her Husband IN Expensive
Politics.
Special Dispatch TO THE CALL

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BOSTON, Nov. GA number of inter
esting letters were put in as evidence in
the trial OF the celebrated Myron P.Walker
divorce suit al Northampton. n Among the
best are the following:
PARIS, Sept. 8, 1877.
Dedrie: Come to me tonight. The wind is
blowing and the rain falling quite like winter.
emphasizing my loneliness, Tor bade good
by forever to MI and miss him and want
you. l send you, through him, cameo scarf
pin cut in sardonyx-the head of Achilles.
This will tell just as truly OF my love. Wear
it every dav, and give me thought every
time you put 1t on or off.
The letter that was left by Mrs. Walker
II the vault when she took out her securi-
ties was as follows:
Ramsey has warned me against all exciting
conversation, saying that IL my present con-
dition any great excitemen is dangerous and
might be fatal to me, and therefore, in order
TO avoid useless discussion, take this way of
calling your attention to the fact that l have
taken my stocks, bonds ana other valuable
papers int my own seeping. do so after due
deliberation, believing It to be duty owe 10
myself and to my children. AT your con-
venience / should ike a memorandum &C
count OF $177 900 worth OF securities which
owned in July, 1887, which are not here
now.
Four days later Mrs. Walker wrote to
Colonel Walker as follows:
You have had for long time practical con-
troll of my securities and property. l think it
needful and proper now that I should myse +
lake charge of my own property, though
shall be lad of your advice in managing 1t.
She speaks of a $1OO, 900 investment,
and adds: Il also left the deed of the
stable as of no use TO me, although the
property represented by it is really
mine "
Colonel Walker gives the explanation
of the $177, 600 as follows:
Current expenses often explained S45, 900;
for Highland Hotel at Belchertown, and losses
$50 600 bonds at Mutual Life above loan,
$1,000 s4oeo zoe 'r9m fWo E1Tqa sgea snns
not on your book, $1,000; paid Ella $1,000.
mother S400, during last year $140O. have
in cash, $4l 400. Not accounted for in this
explana ion, $21, 200; total, $177, 900. In
this S21 200 lie my political expenses during
three political campaigns ana any additional
loans Had L fallen dead day before yester-
day my book and my checkbook would have
given you any particle OF Information which
you now possess.
Spicy bits of testimony that cropped out
in substance were as follows: Practically
Colonel Walker was told that he could
have meals and lodgings and companion
ship, but little else. II shall support you
in politics no longer. You are young; go
to work"
In one of Colonel Walkers letters he
said 81 have asked myself a thousand
times What have done to deserve such
treatment?"
To this Mrs. Walker replied: "Our re-
Iations are only business ones"
After letters of this kind Colonel
Walker said he was depressed and could
not look people in the face
Mrs. Walker said that Colonel Walker
told her in 1879 that he had never kept one
of her letters. He produced almost BUSH
els of them.
Finally. after long time of waiting,
Colonel Walker wrote and want ted to know
his fate.
He wanted to know if their hearts
couldn't be united, but if that was impos-
sible he wanted to know his fate. Other
letters brought some of the family jars,
but the end came April Is. 1892 when
Colonel Walker turned over an insurance
policy, his wife acknowledged it and then
the lawyers took charge.
A deposition was read from the venera-
BILE Mrs. Crocker of New York, in which
she said that Colorel Walker had treated
her daughter and her children by former
marriage very kindly. Here is another
letter:
June, 1871 am willing, and gladly say
let us forgive each other and never speak of
the past again. Drop everything just where
1t is. Let US never speak of all these horrible
things again. Come back to me without con-
dition on either side. Sobered by experience,
saddened by the knowledge we have gaiued OF
ourselves let US take up the burden OF life
together again win you do this? Just come
without word Let rs begin at once. This
is the wish and entreaty of your wife.
In consequence of this letter Colonel
Walker alleges that he returned and for
time they lived together.
Court adjourned until Monday morning.