The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1899-03-29

As the little wasted body was being
lowered into the grave, man pushed
his way through the crowd.
1t was George Saxton.
Old Louis Shelters white face turned
crimson. He turned on the man with a
savage oath, but Allie Shoffsr's brother
caught his uplifed arm.
"Don't. father, he said. "Think how
Allie loved him."
George Saxton spent the evening at a
low concert house in Akron, but for
two years he went every day to the
graveyard and put knot Of fresh flow
ers on the grave Of the girl he had
killed.
This all happened twenty yesrs ago,
and when George Saxton was killed last
October, they laid him on his bed. aud
at the foot Of it, they found the picture OF
o young and beautiful girl, IN the very
flower Of her youth-a picture Of Allie
Shoffer.
Several weeks after Allies death, her
sister. Mary, put all the presents George
Saxton had given her into box, plac.
ing on top copy of the then new song,
"Under the Daisies" From that day
Mrs. Day has never spoken to George
Saxton, and'for more than ten years the
two families we're estranged, and u is
OILY since President Mckinley and
Judge Day have been such close polit-
ical associates that Mrs. Mckinley and
Mrs. Day have been on friendly terms.
From the day Of Allie Shoffer's death,
George Saxton was social outcast.
Canton homes we're closed to him, and
they we're never opened to him again.
Not half dozen women in Canton's so.
cial circles would speak to him thereaf-
ter. He never prospered after Allie
Shoffer died. He inherited property
and money from his father, but he grad.
ually lost it by bits through his own
wicked folly.
He did not drink, nor had he any
taste for gambling. He did what be did
from no sudden impulse or impetuous
freak OF fancy. He became engaged to
q beautiful young girl, the daughter OF
a prominent jurist. He tired Of her,
and when he had dragged her good
name in the mire OF the small city g
slums, cast her of.
A leading Canton physician shot him
for attempting 10 invade the peace Of
his home. A society girl in Massilon
left her fathers house to run away and
marry him.
George Saxton took her to Canton
and bought her fine piece OF jewelry,
but he laughed in her face when she
asked him to make her his wife, as he
had promised.
He spent few weeks on farm for a
vacation, and after he had gone the far
mer's fourteen yesr.o old daughter orept
out to pond and drowned herself.
George Saxton always promised to mar
ny the women who loved him-spd the
women who loved him were many, and
almost always good women they were.
too. A few years ago, Annie George
came into his life. Annie George was
the wife of poor carpenter named
Semple O. George.
Annie George took in sewing. She
was q beautiful, fresh colored, bright.
eyed, large-hearted, country woman.
She bad never had decent dress in her
life, and she didn't know was luxury
meant.
They rock rooms in the Saxton block.
The first day they moved in, Mrs.
George was getting things in shape and
George d. Saxton came in to see bis
new tenants.
He went down stairs and told . group
Of men he knew, that he had just seen
the preitlest woman he had ever met,
and that he was going to get her to fall
in love with him, husband or nc hus-
band.
George Saxton was man OF the world.
He did not brighten Mrs. George with
any sudden love.making.
He took her little boys out riding. He
gave work to her husband. He came
mp to the little rooms where the George
family lived and talked politics with
Semple George, until the mans head
was turned by the kindness and arpre-
citation of zone OF the richest men in
town..
Gradually, gradually, gradually he
became more and more q friend OF the
the family.
When Semple George was out aud the
children we're abed, be would come and
talk to Mrs. George and tell her what q
lonely life he led, and how no one I'M
derstood him but her.
And he bought her fine things to wear
and the poor, foolish woman tried on
the fine things and sent them back to
him-and remembered them aud him.
And one day she could no longer look
her children in the face and she could not
bear to hear Semple George talking to
the boys about their mother. The peo-
pie in the neighborhood began to forget
to bow to Mrs. George. Her customers
left her-her husband grew suspicious.
She had no one left but George Sax.
ton.
He loved her. he said. He never
knew what love really meant till be met
her-he would never leave her--and then
Semple George brough suit against
Saxton for alternating the affections OF
his wife.
He gagged the extent Of his injuries
at $780, 200. George Ssxton sent Mrs.
George to Dakota. She procured d.
vorce, came back, and began to get
ready to for her wedding.
George Saxton did not laugh at her