The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-04
FRONTIER 0RATORY.
Fathless Lover costigated by an
Oklahoma. Attorney.

When Grace Allen, a Kansas girl,
was on trial at Chandler, o, t, charged
with the murder of her rival. she was
defended by Attorney L. E. Payne.
says the Topeka Capital In his speech
TO the jury MI. Payne administered
the following merited and blistering
word-castiSation to the lover in the
case. who, it seems, loved not wisely,
nor yet too we'll:
we viii now contemplate for a mo-
ment the Kansas Jay; the creature
who was engaged to two girls and true
TO neither. l expected from what I
had heard of these two women's in
fatuation for him to see an Apollo
BelYidere. a glass of fashion, and a
mold of form, some magnificent sDeci-
men 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 spectaeies. reminds me
of horned toad. jumped upon the
witness stand. I confess that l was
disappointed. And we now have the
honor to stand in the presence of the
lah-dedah of the lah-dedahs, the
beardless Adonis without any signs
ludl L CclI see VI 1AAliAOOu ABOUT
and 10 feast our eyes upon his physical
graces and beauties, his weak eyes. and
10 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 mar
rage, he entered the Widows home
in the state of Kansas, and sought the
heart of this poor, innocent, pure and
ssir Il 7ph n foo TN
thought! 1elts is the thing, the gosling,
that gave away the secrets of his
sweetheart and turned her love letters
over &c a rival to be made the subject
of her sneers and jeers; who plighted
his troth, his fidelity 70 one girl. and
then in his dupicity said he iluped
something would prevent him from
marrying so he could marry another,
and spoke the words of promise to the
ear OF THAI other, only to break them
to her heart. and laughed ard danced
TO see the f1endishness OF his own
treachery pinch the lily tinctue of that
others face and stdrVe the roses on her
checks. his is the moo-oalf who took
buggy rides with q sweetheart ard
lsped 10 her ears the dulcet strains OF
his auerile PASSION then said he took
the drive at her requegtl This is the
dcubte-f4ced Aypocrife who. two weeks
ago, held The lAywhite hand of this
pure giri in his claws and told her
that he loved her, and is here today.
wrluing notes to the prosecution and
aiding in every way possible to him. to
send her TO the peTlitentary- He sevs
he. advised the Eckes family not to
drop this prosecution He eaTs, I
never mentioned marriage to Grace
Allen and then, in he next breath. he
2ays: I told her that if things we're
different I would marry her. and that I
would like for things to be d.nere-,,.'
Think of that Is it net the language
of subtle, false, periured and dfsloydl
villain? II I had a son who would en-
gage himself TO one girl while engaged
10 another girl, tell their secrets. ex-
pose their letters and then come on
the witness sand and attempt to swear
one of those girls into the penitentiary
1 would shoot him as I would a dog; I
would th@pw the lousy cur headlong
inho a. well flied with scaly snakes,
that they might hiss at and bite him
from now until eternity"