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was boarding at that time at $50 Harri-

son street.
ION the way home" she said, 'he kept
repeating as his excuse for the way he
had acted. that he loved me so he
couldn't help it, He promised that he
would take care of me and protect me-
Did you believe that he would mar
ry you?''
Yes, sir. He told me he would, and
supposed that if he loved me to such
an extent as to make him act like that,
he would want to marry me-"
Miss Smith was questioned as to the
soclaI attentions paid to her by DR..
Lowry. He began taking her to the
theater occasionally and they attended
several parties and receptions together.
Attorney Beebe asked if she could re-
call any of the places where they had
attended society functions together. This
hesitated awhile and then asked:
Would it be fair for me to tell-fair
to the people we visited?"
Miss Smith looked appealingly at
Judge Slower and at her lawyers and
finally looked in the direction of Dr..
Lowry. Her lawyer nodded for her to
go on and she said:
"One of the parties we attended to-
gether in 1892 was at Mr.. Samuel Ride
hours home. We attended various So
c1ety receptions together. In 1898 he
took me to the Worlds fair and we
were there ten days. After that 1 took
trip to Manitou Springs and while L
was there he came out and staid a few
days with me-
All lnlS TIME MISS smith CeStlneQ CnaC
she kept urging periodically that they
be married, but DR.. Lowry always had
the excuse that he wanted to pay off n
certain debt first. Once he told her that
If he ever married anyone, it would be
she, but that he thought he could be
happier not to marry. He disliked the
! idea of being tied down.
REMAINS OF WIFE AND CHILD.
In November of 1893, DR.. Lowry re-
moved the remains of his wife and child
from Kansas City to Centerville, O., the
home of his father. He wrote a letter
to Miss Smith telling her of this. 1.-The
graves were transferred yesterday" he
said. Features all gone.''
Miss Smith told about some flowers
she had sent from Kansas City to Cen
terville to decorate Mrs. Lowry's grave.
NUNS and roses. Upon their arrival
she received a telegram from DR.. Low
ry acknowledging their receipt. He said:
Flowers came beautifully. Meet me
at Wabash tonight. Don't fail"
Miss Smith met him at the depot in
Kansas City that night.
DR.. Lowry's mother died about a year
after the death of his wife. His father
who is now "a years old and retired
from business. still lives at Centerville,
the family home, and occasionally visits
his son at Kansas City.
Miss Smith told why she left Dr.Low-
RVS employ temporarily and went to
Chicago to work for a dentist there.
Through all the. seven years she had
relations had continued and she finally
felt that, if DR.. Lowry wouldn't marry
her, she ought not to continue with him.
Were you unhappy at this timer"
asked Mr.. Beebe.
Yes, sir. Extremely unhappy all the
time"
Did you read things that you
thought might help or console you?"
Yes, sir I began the study of psy-
chology and I read Drummond a good
deal. 1 thought that might cast some
light on my trouble"
Did you read the Bible, a1so?"
Yes, read the Bible at that time,
too
Finally DR.. Lowry wrote urging her
to come back to Kansas City and telling
her that the dentist she was with was
man of immoral reputation. On his
persuasion she returned to him and be-
gan the work of a travelling Sa1esWo-
man, selling his dental machine. That
she worked at this with all her might,
a perusaI of her letters is sufficient to
prove. Some of them are genuinely pa
thetic, showing the struggles and hard
ships and rebuffs she went through
with for his sake-struggles that would
have conquered the determination Of
many a man.
SOME OF MISS SMITHS LETTERS.
Her letters were introduced in evil
dence late yesterday afternoon and a
few of them read to the jury before
court adjourned. They are well written
letters and appeared to make a strong
and favorable impression upon the jury.
One of those in which she told how she
got so discouraged sometimes that she
felt like sitting down to cry was written
from Indianapolis, Ind, August q 1897.
1t was as follows:
My Darling: 1 am obliged to write
again tonight the same old story Of
disappointment that I have written for
the last two weeks. You don't know
how it pains me- But surely it is as
much if not more of a disappointment
to me than it is to you. OF course
have If before and haa rt
tinually. I think I must feel as a man
does who goes about asking for work
One who is willing and knows he is
quite capable of doing good work, and
can even carry good proofs of it, and
yet finds no one who will employ him.
1t is the same with this. I know it is a
fine thing and so does everyone to whom
/ show it. / know they need it, and so
do they, and they admit all of this,
and yet times are so hard that they
haven't got the money and really don't
know, positively. when they will get
any more. So of course they can't try
it under the circumstances.
About three told me, in dead earn
est, today, that they fully intend to get
it at their earliest opportunity, and they
were quite enthusiastic over it, and
want me to send them phamplets.
have the n in that word in the wrong
place, but can't change it, so I know
you will excuse it. Really, darling, L
go around pleading for this as hard as l
can and almost begging people to buy
it. And you can't imagine what per-
fectly horrid men have to meet. 1t is
really degrading. I feel tonight that if
I could just get up in your arms and
cry it out, 1 would get up tomorrow
just as spunky as ever and ready to
go forth, as father used to express it,
to meet the world, the flesh and the
devil, or any old thing that is pleased ia
call himself a dentist Perhaps this is
meant to teach US a lesson Of patience
If so, it is a good, long lesson, that's all
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