The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-28
YOUNG MAN SCORED
Story of an EIopement by a
Fl. Scott Citizens.
LOVE TURNED TO HATRED
Miss Withers Of Fl. Scott For
gets Young Atkinson.
LOVE TURNED TO HATRED

Is through witt further acquaintance
with young Atkinson OF Wichita. This is
he word which comes from Fort Scott
Miss Withers Is thoroughly and COM
pletely Disguised with Atkinson and al!
IS over between them She has so noti-
fed her friends and they and her re1a-
tives are greatly relieved tnereat-
AS the story comes out m all us details.
| 4; develops that a great dAl has been
said which did not do justice to Miss
Withers. Her constancy TO the young
man she did love and mis- todecision puts
a new light on the whole history Of the
| affair
These details were related by gentle
man who knows the facts in the case
Miss Katherine Withers,' he says, is
young woman of literary trend. demure,
| quiet lady-like in demeanor. She is not
demonstratdve. nor Iight-headed. Her
farther is a rfch merchant in Fort Scott,
her family one of the leading ones in
eastern Kansas Their daughter, Miss
Katherine has been brought up with pa
rental soliciuude and kindness. She has
wanted for nothing She is a young
/
loves her parents as much as they love
her. She had met young Atkinson in En-
poria. There is no question but what she
was infatuated with him. He was invited
to Fort Scott Along about the first Of
last July he was there. Parties were
| given. Drives taken A pleasant time
| was given him
Miss Withers parents had no definite
idea of possible marriage. Upon his
return to Emporda Atkinson quarreled
with his employer and quit, going to Kan
sas City. from which place he kept cor
respondence with Miss Withers. The
employment he sought was not forth
| coming. He pawned his watch and owed
a board bill shortly. He wrote 90 Miss
| Withers, 1 understand, asking her to
come to Kansas City and they would be
married.
Miss Withers planned to go. She con-
fded tie proposed elopement to several
| friends Those friends conf1ded It 10
| other friends. The wholei of the younger
society of Fort Scott was soon talking
| Of the elopemert.
1.-The romance of the affair caught their
fancy None of them would have breathed
u word of the conspiracy to spoil its con-
summation. 1t was a secret in which all
the young people Of the town were part
ne,-s but from which the older heads were
excluded. The elopement' in the minds
of the young people of Miss Katherine
| at their head was merely a two hours
trip to Kansas City, the marriage and a
return home. It was an idea of hUnor.
/ It was a joke on the parents Every
body was urging katherine forward in
| the plan.
Il understand that Atkinson telesraphed
| her to bring money and her jewelry and
| come to Kansas City to meet him and
they would be married at once. She
! bundled up some shirt waists and hand
kerchiefs in a newspaper. Some young
people. the ringleaders, took her to the
! depot and left her. A few hours later
| she was in Kansas City. There Atkinson
net her.
81 do not know why they were not mar
ried. l think it was because she did not
/ bring enough money with her TO satisfy
! Atkinson. In company with Atkinson she
went into pawn shop and pawned a
/ beautiful diamond ring, a present from
her father for $50. This ring has since
been recovered without the pawn ticket,
Mss Withecs saying that Atkinson had
the ticket, and Atkinson denying that tt
Is his possession. know that with part
Of this money Atkinson paid his board
bill and freed mis- grip and with part of
il redeemed his watch which was in soak.
"They did not get married. She went
to the home Of a friend where she had
visited before in Kansas City after an
a Ct q
would 60 on to Wichita, and he would
follow the next day and they would be
married. he making represen tatlons that
he was to get employment in Wichita
He told her to come to Wichita and they
would be married
Meanwhile the young people of Fort
Scott were discovering that thing start
ed in the best of humor may end seri-
ouslv The conspirators, with confid enJia-
smiles, waited until the afternoon paper
at Fort Scott was out BY that time
, they argued, Miss katherine must bt
married, and 1t was time in the morning
10 let the public know ii. So they went
20 the reporter on the morning paper
and told him everything. He wrote it VI
Katherine Withers had run away K
Kansas City and was now married K
Mr.. Atkinson. He wrote it up at length
and by midnig ht it was in type. All tht
young people went to bed, confident cha
Katherine Withers was married ans
e3ory.ng in the thought that the com
nunity would De treated 10 touch O.
romance in the morning and many o
them planning to 60 down TO the depo
and welcome her and her groom hons
on the morrow
In the evening Mr. and Mrs. WiCherg
were driving about town hunting for tnes
daughter. They could not ind ler anS
were a little put out about Il Finally
someone probably a conspirator, toll
them she was out a. Canp5eus, abou
two miles N the country. They startel
20 drive OF. for' her but finally concludes
that she contenp plated staying tte-e a.
night 50 they turned back home decidt1i
ID 'scod the daughter on the morCoV
.o- not apprsng them OF i-er rip :
the country.
IN the morning M Wi-5-e-s went mt
me FROM yard and picked up She morn
iag paper ard rad the inspired accoun
% ms daughters marriage.
This vas TIE first news he tad -
cesved Of what every young woman as
man II haIAe[-He - i-@4 A4-oNA ~
tvye-l,y-four hours. He a. once began ,
work 70 discover more He s KentGek
ian and the blazing publicity % the rh1rl
offended cis Eign se-se OF 5eoo-um,
..NIeanW-l1..e Mss Katherine Wjthe-
had -. cat to- Wichita she had t-aF
eled before IL night. always IN a stao
room n a Pullman This tlule sAe wa
in q s-ufTy. close ili-sIse-lng day car
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