The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-15

would speak to him thereafter He never
| prospered after Allie Shoffer died. He
| inherited property and money from his
/ father. but he gradually lost il by bits
| through his OWE wicked folly. He did
| not drink, nor had he any taste for gam
/ bling. He did what he did from no sud
den impulse or impetuous freak of fancy.
He seemed t. make a deliberate plan Of
selfish libertinism and 10 follow it out with
a curious cold-bIooded calculation that
estranged even men of his own grade OF
| living. He became engaged to a 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 a
| small city's sluns he cast her Of She is
| alive today in Sa.em, Ohio. but the friends
who knew her when she was a girl never
speak Of her now.
4 leading Canton physician shot him for
attempting TO invade the peace of mis-
home A society girl in Massilion left her
fathers house to run away and marry
him. George Saxton took her 10 Canton
and bought her fine piece Of jewelry. but
he laughed in her face when she asked him
10 make her his wife as he had promised.
He spent a few weeks on a farm for a
vacation, and after he had gone the farm
er's Hyear-old daughter crept out 70 a
pond and drowned herself. George Saxton
always promised TO marry the momen who
loved him-and the women who loved him
were many. and almost always good wom-
en- they were, too
few years ago Annie George came
into his life. Annie George was the wife
Of poor carpenter named Semple C.
George. Annie George took in sewing She
advertised as dressmaker, and she began
TO get custom She was a beautiful, fresh
colored, bright-eyed, large-hearted country
woman. She had never had a decent dress
in her life. and she didn't know what lux
ury meant. She loved her children and
she was glad Semple didn't drink. as some
Of the farmers and mechanics whose wives
she knew did, and she worked from morn
ing till night trying to get a home for
her boys
They took rooms in the Saxton block
The first day they moved in Mrs. George
was getting things into shape and George
D. Saxton came in to see his new tenants.
Mrs. George was flushed with exercise.
and she was g little embarrassed at talk
Ing with a stranger. and lock Of her Jet
black hair had fallen and lay against her
white brow, and her great black ewes
glowed with interest as Mr.. Saxton. the
landlord, told her what fancy he had
taken to her husband and how he would
help him to get plenty of work And then
he went downstairs and told a group of
men he knew that he had just seen the
prettiest woman he had ever met. and
that he was going to get her 10 fall in love
with him, husband or no husband.
George SaXton was man Of the world.
He did not frighten Mrs George with any
sudden love-making. He took her little
boys out riding. He gave work to her
husband. He come up to the little rooms
where the Georges lived and talked politics
with Semple George until the mans head
was turned by the kindness and apprecia-
ton of zone of the richest men in town.
Gradually, gradually, gradually he be-
came more and more a friend of the fam
lily. When Semple George was out and
the children were abed he would come and
talk to Mrs. George and tell her what a
lonely life he led, and how no one under
stood him but her. And he bought her
hne things to wear-and the poor, foolish
woman tried on the fine things and sent
them back to him-and remembered them
and 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 Saxton. He
loved her, ne said. He never knew what
love really meant till he met her-he would
never leave her-and then Semple George
brought suit against Saxton for alternating
the affections of his wife. He gagged the
extent of his injuries at 5000 George
Saxton sent Mrs. George to Dakota. She
procured a divorce, came back, and began
to get ready for her wedding.
George Saxton did not laugh at her then.
Her eyes had a trick of turning to fire
which he did not care to provoke but he
postponed the wedding. 1t was too soon,
he said. People would talk. His house
was not ready yet-a little later would be
better; excuse after excuse. Mrs. George
was patient at first. She bore her Ioneli-
ness and her ostracism braveIy. The
wronged wife, the childless woman, The
ostracized and deluded fancy of an hour.
became desperate. Then followed a series
OF lawsuits. arrest sand scandals. In
many of these affairs Mrs. George had
threatened to shoot Saxton and had even
tried TO take his life before the final shoot
ing. Mrs George made life such a bur
den for Saxton that he was obliged to
abandon his apartments in the saxton
block and move to the old homestead. i'm
mediately across the street, now the home
of his sister. Mrs. Barber. He was living
there at the time Of his death. Annie
George was desperate and seemed half in
sane
Mrs. Althouse. the other woman 20 whom
Saxton was said to be engaged. was a
widow, who had been divorced from one
Of the best known men in Canton. She IS
a plain little bit Of sallow. taciturn WON
an. rs undressing in appearance as Mrs.
George IS beautiful George Saxton told
her that Mrs. George was prosecuting him,
but that he would soon dispose OF her. and
he told Mrs. George he cared nothing for
Mrs. Althouse and would rid himself OF
her and marry Annie George. the only
woman ne ever loved, as soon as the $50
600 suit was settled.
Annie George began % doubt him. She
wore her heart out with anxious vigiIs.
She watched Mrs. Althouse and she cross
questioned George Saxton. One day the
news came 10 her that the suit was set
tied. George Saxton paid Senple George
2 goodly sum Of money. part Of which
Somple George used 70 buy wedding pres
ents for his new wife Annie George went
70 George Saxton and said: Now. George,