The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-22
GETS BRIDE In PRISON
STARTLING ROMANCE OF DAVID Ell.
STEWART, A WELL KNOWN
MICHIGAN MAN
woMAN WAS A MURDEREss

stewart Declared Her Guilty and
Secured. Her Conviction He
Worked Fourteen Years to Secure
n Pardon. and Then Married the
Woman-They Stunned Society
More Than Society Stunned Them.
LANSING, Mich, Oct 19-The grave
has Just closed on a man whose gloomy
life romance reads like a chapter out OF
Wilkie Collins
How it was that David H. Stewart, Of
the tiny hamlet of Kalamo, could become
the lavish admirer and afterward the
husband of a woman whom he bel1eVed
to be a cold-blooded murderess, and
whom he had first denounced for crime
and afterwards by his testimony con-
yicted and caused to be sentenced to i'm
prisoament for life-by what freak Of
Cupid could. such a man be brought to
spend his days in alteration of such a
woman was ever mystery to those
who knew him and knew the tragic be-
ginning of his infatuation.
But now David H. Stewart is in his
grave carrying the secret of his pas
sion with him. The woman, who, by his
exertions. was made to pass fourteen
years of her life behind prison bars, is
alive and we'll and the possessor of an
ample fortune and abundant traces OF
that beauty which in her girlhood
brought scores of young men to her feet.
Mary Bradley as a girl was as willful
as she was beautiful. OF all the young
men who came wooing none suited her
imperious fancy Her parents urged her
TO marry one after another of them,
but she would not heed their counseis.
Then suddenly, before even it was
fully suspected that the fortunate one
was a sutton, she announced that she
was going to marry Simeon Brooks-a
man old enough to, be her father.
HUSBAND DIES SUDDENLY.
Her parents begged her to consider.
R,,t # was in vain. Simeon Brooks she
would marry and did marry; and she
seemed so happy with her elderly nus
band that her parents regretted their OPP
position Brooks was a wealthy and nos
pitable man, and the new establishment
had for its guests the best people In that
part of the state The married life SEEM
ed ideal in it's happiness, so When one
night Simeon Brooks was taken Ill and
| was a dead man by morning everybody
smoke sympatheteaiiy of the cruel grief
the widow would suffer-
Everybody save one-Inavid H. Stewart.
When the widows grleI was spoken OF
in Stewards presence his face grew
stern, and finally he came boldly out
with tale so strange that people who
heard it believed rather that Stewart
was mad than that his story was true.
Practically he accused Mrs Brooks of
numbering her husband
The story he told was this:
A few days before Mr. Brooks death
he came to his house and found Mrs.
Brooks there He had with him bottle
of arsenic he had bought to kill rats, and
unwrapped it in her presence. She was
interested in the poison; asked about its
effect, and how much it would take to
kill, and wound up by asking Stewart to
give her some of the sdrug. He refused
and put the bottlesaway.
A few days after came Mr.. Brooks
sudden death. Thesafsrnic episode cross
ed Stewards mind, sBathe did not give 1t
second thought until he went to get
his poison bottle and fund it in its place,
nearly empty. Not aiEsou! in his house
had touched it. Mrs. Brooks was a fire.
luent visitor. anda knew where it was
kept. In word, Stewart fatty said he