The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-10
INDIAN UoM|AN'S ROMANCE.
ADELiNA TOMAS AND THE STORY
or A BROKEN HOME.
tears Ago she and Charlie Piixhted
Their TrOtA On = Green River
Haach-A shadow Fell Athwart
the Threshold and All Was over.

penetrating. aboriginal odor OF smoked
salmon. wet buckskin and faded clans.
which would have caused even blind
man 10 murmur .'iniuns,' pervadea Judge
Hensans court room Friday. as on the
witness stand near tho window overlook
INK the former stamping grounds of her
sforefathers at the mouth Of the slow
! Rowing Duwamsh river sat AdeIina
Tomas. a fuil-bIoodeJ Indian Woman. ANA
seiased 10 the ecurs through an interpreter
. story of love won and lost; of jealousy
and deserton. AMI prayed for divorce
from her Indian husband. Charlie row
resident Of the Tulai!p reservation,
Adeiina Is no longer handsome II In
6eed she ever made such prefensioas and
her faded gray locks. staaping figure aai
sWyinkIed visage call up vivid recoileetians
- the late Princess Angelina Vat she,
IN common with many ~ ,sr fairer sisters
sSRAC have told their Noes In The Seettie d.
&oreo court. had romance in aer Afe
Vpn0Aed her heart 10 her lovers Keeping
and found In the end that Der iael was
ebay. or course the old Indian woman
sAdtint tell all this 10 Judge Benson but II
Nc What the story aiae did tell amounts TO,
Invested Of SIS detail
There is interest Ia the story she hid
che and Charlie plsghtta their trots and
began life A. man and- wife .ea a ranch on
Green river. Just how they were married
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Fulton. who
represented the dssaultsug Charlie, didn't
inquire
she ana hsr husband lived together
Adeiina went on "a state. more or less ur-
happily fot atauS mife years. Between
hcp-piekins times thvy farYnei and h
hunted and fa~hea Charlie. she said was
nss oxeris awltel~a Nth Industry Tie
would work. aut ae greatly preferred 10
be q sportsman DariI,s hop. eis King times
this led him 10 50 against ;hs monte nank
hv night with t6e proc ersis Of Aar Ia.
gAas,ry ansens the hos polss ey dav. sar.
like A devoted wsfs, site said pAe g.t her
sisae terd hanssis the auese strshN~
Then abe. said. shadow cane ever her
hge Probably "a pretty dark ssas-aW fssy
Adeilna says Tire shadow ans eass sss a..
other indian Woman NAMED AIRS Martin
Nhn east ssss OF love uuon Chaotic ana
Cnariie fell victim ta the Ten gtsr's clsar,r.
Al least that Ia Aa.liaa stasY.
ore night tn tsSs eAs testified Charlie
LEFT her in her nsfls hotne 90 Green river
ard another enc Mss added te ne laug list
OF ruined homes Charlie and ISIS new
love seearasng 80 Asessnax tsy~ffnsarv
went 20 1--we en- ihe f'aiage reservation. ara
still Hive snesa while A3sifna herself yr-
manned On sae .strsn river szta snt ia led
on as usual. There wsS ,.ae $AfeE that size
regretted, aeweveF. ea5 thse was nat
prior 90 hss departure charlie sss.s tser.
oNaeef her - $<a g part 81 TIRE farm ams
when ne sseesmpea Ge.eK wtth s7aa tie en-
sire psecse5s. Thss Vas n#sEsy as hart =.
hear. Adsisas testified as tke sass az esr
husband
Mrs. Tsnas testified saat sor years bn-
heart searns} for a14srife. ard snas shr
several stssvs n~Est 10 7si3at3r ansa stfsgnms
81 - wsn again BIS }sss-e aea Assmx hfs>
esss 10 tie Ias sty res as sszexn river
Bas hes sEseFss were 81 ae avail sac SEES.
onse that ShAflEe tegsfesf dear ear fe ser
eAdiaa~L asa. 81 tas ~sssTAts Of esse ss,szss4s -
oene. answered her tA4s ~ slssa's eke aar
0o4oWf that AA icons or ~Ss<Ssf ssssss !.
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