The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
A SISTERS REVENGE.
fFrnm the Pitfshurg Newe.l

(F'rom the Pittsburg News.)
Let me tell you story of womans re-
venge. 1t would have been told in the
news of the day not long ago if the
family had not guarded it carefully, but
for all that it got out.
There lived the south side two sisters.
handsome young women, blondes and said
to be giddy- The elder married early and
unhappily- She got divorce from her
She was no sooner rid of one than she
went on the hunt of another, She found a
was an agreeable young man. She was
sister came home from school.
The divorced woman was soon cast aside
for the fairer and fresher face She was
face, for a Tilted woman viii not let her
the man Is She lost. But she sWore that She
w9uld be revenged on her sister ,s
she had known how much the older one
might have sent him about his business in
hope that he would return to his first
love But she didn't know. She met a
whom she fell madly in love. The other
one dropped out of her life and out of that
of her sister as well. 1t was not long
until the engagement of the younger wo-
man TO her new sutton was announced
One evening the young man called to see
and she wasn't at home. Her sister re-
ceiyed him and after some talk she began
ing the absent one The young man was
eager to know all. He had heard enough
to arouse jealousy. With seeming hesita-
ton the demon woman told him that she
feared her sister was going to perdition.
4 saw note she got today" she said,
making an appointment to meet certain
man at No. % Blank street and | fear
The young man knew it was not.
Il will go with you there. the woman
her in time to save her from downward
The young man agreed to go with her.
She Went TO her room to put on her
Mr. ana Th4 hnrrie 6y Wrote note 10
Charley has been here and he and I
have gone over TO No. % Blank street.
She put the note where she knew her
sister would get it, and she left the house
her sister, at No. % Blank street.
She will be here; let us watt and they
went into room to wait.
When the Divorce got an opportunity to
f6ld 70 Ihf woman Of the Mouse aIone
and TO show her into the room at once
two had left. and she. got the note. She
went to the address given. She asked and
was told the persons whom she wanted to
Come with me-" said the woman who
the room where df1 her ss1eT Sh end d hers eer
trothed We're AS soon as the woman in
threw herself into the arms Of the young
man and cried out: We are discovered
The other turned from the room without
a word She walked to a drug store on
the corner, bought poison, returned to the
drank it. She did not speak to either
There was delay in getting a doctor, and
when one did come it was too late. He
pumped the poison out and ordered the
girl sent home, so that she would not die
in such a house.
She could not live. Her father mother
brothers and sisters were gathered at her
bed All were weeping. They We're called
to take the final parting She smiled on
each as they came and she told them not
to cry. for her, Her elder sister. came last.
The girl in bed turned her head away.
You are murderess,'' she said quietly.
She is dead" the doctor said the next
instant.