The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-17
MEN MUST BE SCARCE
If Two Women Will Quarrel Over
One Like This.

When Grace Allen, Kansas girl, Twas
on trial at Chandler, o. r., charged
with the attempted murder of her
rival, Miss Eckes, she was defended by
Attorney L E. Payne.
In his speech to the jury, Mr.. Payne
administered the following bHstering
word castigation to the lover in the
case who it seems loved not too wisely
nor yet too well:
1--WE will now contemplate for a mo-
ment the Kansas Jay; the creature who
neither. 1 expected from what 1 had
heard of these two women'S infatuation
for him to see an Apollo Be1Videre, a
glass of fashion and a mould of form
some magnificent specimen of grandly
developed manhood such as men might
be enViouS of and women might rave
over. But when this insignificant, red
headed specimen, who with his spec
tacleS reminds me of a horned toad,
jumped upon the witness stand, I con-
fess that was disappointed. And now
we have the honor to stand in the
presence of the lah-dedah of the lah-
dedahs, the beardless AdoniS without
any signs that I can see of manhood
about him, and to feast our eyes upon
his physical graces and beauties, his
weak eyes, and to rejoice in the sound
of that sweet little lisp of his ta-ta- This
is the thing. We have seen it at last.
Engaged to one woman, with the day
appointed for his marriage, he enter
ed the widows home in the state of
Kansas, and sought the heart of this
and gained it-fearful thought. This
is the thing, the gosling, that gave
away the secrets of his sweetheart and
turned her love letters over to a rival
to be made the subject of her sneers
and jeers; who plighted his troth, his
fidelity, to one girl, and then in his
dup1icity, said he hoped something
would prevent him from marrying so
he could marry another, and spoke the
words of promise to the ear of that
other only to break them to her heart
and laugh and dance to see the fiend-
ishness of his own treachery pinch the
lily tincture of that others face and
Starve the roses on her cheeks.
This is the moocalf who took buggy
rides with a sweet heart and isped in
her ears the dulcet strains of his puer-
lie passion, then said he took the drive
at her requesti This is the double
held the lily white hand of this pure
girl in his claws and told her that he
loved her and is here today, writing
notes to the prosecution and aiding, in
every way possible to him, to send her
to the penitentiary. He says he ad-
vised the Eckes family not TO drop this
prosecution. He says: I never men
toned marriage to Grace Allen and
then in the next breath he says: I
told her that if things were different
would marry her, and that I would
like for things to be different Think
of thatl Is it not the language of
subtle, false, perjured and disloyal viii
liam? If 1 had a son who would en-
gage himself to one girl while engaged
to another girl, tell their secrets, ex-
pose their letters, and then come on
the witness stand and attempt to
swear one of those girls into the PEN
itentiary, I would shoot him as L would
a dog; T. would throw the lousy cur
headiong into a well filed with scaly
snakes, that they might hiss at and
bite him from now until eternity"