The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-05
ANACONDA news.
QUITE A ROMANCE THIS
Young Man Comes All the Way
From Brooklyn.
A CASE OF MARBLE HEART
She Welcomes Him to Montana but Re-
fuses to Marry Hfm-He Demands
His Jewels and Threatens
to Shoot Her.

There came very near being a shoot
ing ARRAY in a lodging house in the
northern part of Oak street early yes
terday morning. A Tilted lover. who is
a member Of a wealthy family in
Brooklyn, pulled a revolver on a girl
n demanded that she give him back
the jewels he had given her. His rea-
son for so doing was that the girl re-
fused to marry him.
The girl in the case went East last
year. While in New York she met the
young man and they quickly formed
an acquaintance. The young man gave
her lovely jewels, among which was a
beautiful diamond ring. The young
lady remained in the metropolis for
more than six months. She returned to
Montana in May. She made a stay in
Butte for a couple of months, after
which she came here and she has re-
manned here ever since.
The young man from Brooklyn wrote
20 her quite often and asked her to
marry him. About a month ago she
wrote him that she would consider his
offer of marriage and that she would
write him soon. The young man, prob
ably thinking that she would accept
him. left Brooklyn Immediately on re-
ceiving the letter. On his way to Butte
he wired her that he would reach there
about Nov. q. The young lady went
10 Butte and she met her friend on
his arrival. They remained in Butte
until the afternoon train, when they
came to Anaconda. The young man
often asked the girl where she had put
the diamond ring and the diamond AR
rings which he had given her. She an
swered that they were at the jewelers.
being repaired.
Thew went nIIt caxara1 times fn0nfhar
here n he repeatedly asked her to
marry him. but she declined.
ON Saturday evening they went 10
the Saturday night dance at Turner
hall. When the dance was concluded
they came down town together and
they had a lunch at the Buffet on Com
mercial avenue. They then returned To
her room. They talked and quarreled
for some time. until finally he asked
her to give him a final answer. He
said he was tired of waiting, and as
he was losing money continuously by
not attending to his business in Brook
1yn he would like to have an answer
from her, n If IL was not favorable
he would return home Immediately. She
told him that h did not love him and
would not marry linn.
The affair of two hearts had reached
a point where n showdown was neces-
sary, and when the young la got a
cold-bloOded and curdling nit in re-
Spouse to his tender protestations of
undying affection, etc, he determined
TO play his last trump in the shape of
an ugly-looking ~siX-shooter. If he
couldn't play Lothario to a success he
was going to be long on heavy william.
Thrusting the MISUNDERSTANDING weap-
on in the girls frightened and pallid
face, he demanded her undying love. a
first mortgage or her heart. or the
Jewels he had given her. 1t was al
alternative injunction and the young
woman PUNCHED. not her heart. nor the
jewels, but the pawn tickets which
represented the latter.
After that his wrath subsidized, n he
quietly walked out Of the house. little
suspecting hat the young woman had
exercised her feminine p~rerogative OF
changing her mind and that there was
another man in the case. Had he dis
covered his successor in the young wo-
mans affections IL is probable hat he
would have gone on a still hunt for
satisfaction and his successful rival's
gore. The reckless n bloodthirsty
young men from the undesirable East
ern states shoot (off their mouth) at
very little ~provocation.