The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-02
MISS THOMPSON
TELLS HER STORY
Pays Her Respects TO DR.. W. Donaldson
II. Namar.
THEIR cOURTSHIP IN NEW YORK
When He Went to Hartford. Conn,
He Assured Her That He Was Co
ing There to Make Home for Her
and That Then He Would Return
and Marry Her-.Exceptions Filed
to the Declaration of Plaintiff by
Attorneys for the Defendant.

Miss Laura Thompson, of New York
city, the plaintiff i'm the $4,000 breach
of promise suit against DR.. w. Dom
aldson II. Namar, was in this city yes
terday in conference with her attor-
neys, Watson, Diehl, Hall & Kem-
merer
She had concluded to deny herself
to interviewers, but after having read
the statements of Dr. Namar, printed
in yesterdays Tribune, she was not at
all averse to speaking her mind freely
concerning the defendant and his do
ings.
Miss Thompson is petite lass, of the
pronounced brunette type, and appar-
emily of the age she says she is,twenty-
four years. She was attired in a fash
ionable travelling suit of bluish-grey
cloth, trimmed in black, and wore
jaunty small hat, with unrelieved black
trimmings and a heavy black veil,
which hid the lineaments of her face,
but not the large, lustrous black eyes
and lashes and heavy, dark eyebrows.
She is a very intelligent young lady
and at times displays not little nat
ural vivacity and brightnes.
DR. Namar would have it appear"
she said, after the reporter had in
| trOduced the matter of the statement
| printed yesterday, that / am love-
| sick maid who has been bounding him
with my affections for a couple of
| years, to his great disgust and annoy
| anCe. j may have loved him once; l
| confess l did, but my! the only thing I
| love about him now is the 5000 of my
| hard-earned money that he has. AS to
| whether or not my affection was an
| noying to him these will tell when the
case comes to trial." holding up as she
! said this n bundle of letters that would
| fill a young bushel basket which she
| stated were a part of the correspond
! ence that had passed from her recreant
| lover to herself. She would not give
| any of them out for publication, but
she permitted the reporter to see
| enough of them to satisfy him that
| they are to all appearances and from
common report really-truly mushy-
mushy love letters.
HIS SHAME THE GREATER.
"He says that Sadie Elder is his
| lawfully welded wife and has been
such for five years." continued Miss
Thompson, referring to another por-
| llOI Oh the interview at Ine jail. lie
more the shame for him if that is true,
for by this admission he says that with
a wife living he made love to and en-
| gagged to marry me, and from the fact
that during our two years courtship
he borrowed over 5000 of the money 1
earned as a dressmaker, leaves no
other conclusion but that he stopped
to the despicable practice of playing
| on a r1oor. nd ipOorapt cirl's affaptionc
in order to bleed her of the few dollars
she made working with the needle"
II met DIR. Namar in New York
through mutual friend and almost
Immediately he began paying his ad-
dresses to me. He appeared to be a
young man whom any girl would be
! proud to have as a friend or even
| lover, and when after some casual in
| quiries and from common report, 1 felt
| satisfied that he was all he appeared
to be, encouraged his attentions and
| when he proposed to me, some four
months after our meeting, I accepted
him.
He talked of opening up an office
and beginning practice and after time
when he intimated that he was in need
Of money and 1 offered to help him
he accepted the proffer After that
didn't need to urge him to accept help.
He did not hesitate to ask it and
foolishly let him have it. He always
referred to the loans in quite a mat
ter of fact way, saying that as we
were soon to be one, what was his
would be mine, and what was mine
would be his.
WHAT HE TOLD HER.
when he was leaving for Hartford
/ went with him to the station, and he
told me that he hoped to soon be on
his feet, and when he had made a home
for me he would come back and make
me his wife. For several months he
wrote to me every day, sometimes
twice a day, assuring me, as the let
ters will show, of his fidelity, and tell
ing how he was working hard to make
me a home. The usual plea Of poverty
and suggestion for loan to meet Of
flee rent or buy instruments, or some
thing of that kind, was continued, and
not month passed but what 1 sent
him money. In fact, for two years l
gave him every cent 1 could save, and
I denied myself Of every luxury to be
able to help him as much as possible.
"In January Of this year was dumb
founded upon opening his letter to read
that he could no longer keep his en-
gage' 81. with me, as he had decided
to marry Sadie Elder. When recov-
cred from the shock I wrote to him
repeated letters entreating him not to
thus ruthlessly desert me, but he dis
regarded them entirely. Then / sent
an attorney to seek redress, but just
about the time a suit was started he
quit Hartford and came here. Now 4
have got him where he belongs, and /
will have redress and show to the world
who and what DIR. Namar really is.
ABOUT SADIE ELDER.
! early in our engagement he told
me of this Sadie Elder, referring to her