The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-15
SELLS SENSATION
Situation Dark For Wife of
Snowman.
Another Basket Full of Letters
Read in Court.
FAR OFF AUSTRALIA.
Many Of the Nissiyes Sent
Across the Sea.
One Of the Writers Calls Mrs.
Sells s'Queen Mamie"

The second day Of the Peter Sells d.
vorce case furnished more letters 40
sweet .norsels for the gossips-
Attorney Peters resumed the reading
of Mrs. Augusta Civalls' deposition
Mrs. Sells, still clad in black, entered
with her mother and brother and took
seats near Judge Haggerty.
Mr.. Peters read another of the Ned
series The letter was handed to Mrs
Civals by Mrs. Sells. It was marked
exhibit No. Is. This was dated St Thom-
as. Ont, January 16. 1855, and signed
Ned. The letter says he has run up 70
the Office to drop a note to his honey
dear 1t states that he will be n %
Iumbus Wednesday, November 1S- u
says. 'Ill not come up to the mouse Il
you can get away Should ne ~ eaS1
drop me a note when to meet you II
can slip out and you can nnuIfle up ana we
can take in your place. II should be IN
your house and should ask 10 WASH my
hands and we should be gone some time
to read chapter OF cipher, problem
whose business is it23 The letter was
signed Ned with plenty of Hs, ; x Il
Mrs. Civalls then described her IN
PRODUCTION to Harry Lyons at the
Park hotel. He hugged and kissed MIS-
Sells according TO Mrs CINalS tesu-
rnonV Mrs. C,lVallS afterwards saw
LYONS at the Dennison avenue residence
That was at the time they were playing
billiards at the Sells house. Mrs Sells
read me letters, as many as this room
would hold said the deposition IN
Australia Mrs. Sells got letters under
the names OF Name or Mary Smith
Here II envelopes bearing Cancelled
stamps and received in Australia by
Name S. Smith were introduced IN
evidence
A letter addressed to Sydney, Austria
liza, in 1891 was next offered in evidence,
y No 1Te- H.1fr
read This letter was, says Mrs. Civalls,
from Harry Lyons Mrs Sells used to
read the letters in the Park, and these
letters We're turned over to Mrs. Civa1ls
so Mr.. Sells would not get on to them.
AIRS. Sells would read the letters and
then turn them over to Mrs. Civalls
The first Australia. letter was written
here September 22 1891, and was ad-
dressed to My dear. dear Name" This
letter says that she has been exceed
tngly good and kind to your heartbroken
boy Your dear letters are as
good as gold and / shall have them TO
read during the long cold winter
want to talk to my sweetheart all by
herself. God bless her love her and
her alone. Oh out you are dear
to me and 7 love your dear memory bet
ter than life On this letter there were
As cents in stamps. and the writer speaks
Of the gloom and despair he is plunged
in while Name is away The absence
of Name has nearly killed him, says the
writer, strong man that he is Reason
tells him, however. that it must be and
he is content to await her coming He
says he can trust Ella, and for Name
to be careful and not take cold. The
letter says that the writer will take the
medicine, whether he needs it or not
and VIII await his sweetheart. whom he
viii kiss as long as she knows how to
kiss. The words My Queen appear,
as also Rocking on the briny deep"
The writer hopes Name has not been
sick My Queen" is asked TO trust the
writer, though an ocean lies between
them The letter says if Name is not
careful his dear sweet angel queen"
Will have to get a wagon to take his let
ters away from the postofHce. The letter
closes with a million kisses and a hearts
hug. yours, heart and soul, your very
own. Harry"
The next letter was dated Columbus.
o, September g. 1891, and was signed
Your Harry" This letter, the deposit
tion says. was handed to Mrs. Civalls
by Mrs. Sells who wanted the former to
keep it In this epistle the writer hopes
Name is not tired and that the poison
sent to her state room is pretty good
stuff.
The writer says he wishes he could
send a letter every day, but they would
all arrive in a bunch and Name would
have to get a wagon to haul them away
from the p. (Which is postofice
The writer says that the recipient is his
"own love and darling Name, and is
never out Of his heart" and as the boys
are gone he will have a little chat He
Baby" who says Mama is having
trouble in packing her steamer trunk
L 3. S. is at the Park with a woman
old enough to be his mother. The letter
says L. B. S was in her room until 6
a. m The rest of this letter can not be
printed, but winds Up with the fact that
the writer is dreaming of Name
The next letter is dated September "a
and says that L 3. S. has taken his
medicine and roped in some travelling
men to entertain his gay friends.
he encloses an E NJ. c. clipping. The
writer says he can scarcely believe that
she tAdame) has gone; but he promises
70 Drace up, my queen" and he will
Try ana bear UP under his awful weight
OF woe; lie can't help complaining, for
says the writer, lin taking you they
have robbed me of everything" and she
Is brave and true little woman to
leave all behind In the future her "blue
eyed boy viii await her return to
America The letter saws s.ATavhans
when I have received one of yol1r dear
letters from over the sea, I viii brace I'D
and do better"
Again, if he could clasp her in his
arms. a load would be lifted from his
heart. He wants her to kiss bs'bv Helen
He also says he is too smooth to be
caught mapping by Mat. He also spealzs
of having Mrs H. out driving and of 4
visit to Kellogg's- A turn on the avenue
was suggested and Mrs. N drove with
the writer. The horses walked slow while
Mrs N told about the stGry of Gen n
and Carrie. Mrs n. is not a bit good
looking" says the writer, and I made
no love to her" It continues. 80 YOU
Ike the beasts that roar2 Lyons or
Jions2'' Then follows a few lines of sad
eyes gazing out Ger the Pacific after the
blue eyed boy left behind This Ions
letter with million kisses IS signed
'sYour Harry
The next letter was five-page affair
according to the deposition, was dated
Columbus, O., Monday. September IS
1891. and signed. = am only yours This