The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-11-16
Lyons Sent Over a Hundred
Million In His Letters.
HE'S PROMINENT IN SOCIETY.
On The Stand He CempIaesntIy Admitted
Writing AttsciIonats Letters 10 The Wife
dihe Millionaire Snowman.

Columbus, Ohio. Nov, is--Iarry Lyons.
who is named as one of tho co-respon-
dents was one OF the chief witnesses on
the third day of the famous Sells divorce
case.
He admitted that he was the author OF
the love letters read In court and that
his reference to MY Queen, My Angel
Sweetheart" was meant for Mrs. Peter
Sells. wife of the millionaire Snowman.
Lyons said he wrote the letters TO Mrs.
Sells while she was travelling In Australia
with the Sells a. Forepaugh circus In COM
pany with her husband He addressed
them 10 Miss Mamie Smith.
rhe attorney for Mr. Sells read fifteen
or twenty letters from Lyons filled with
passionate assurances of love and affec-
ton.
COLUMBUS SOCIETY. SHOCKED
Lyons is a society favoritc. and his ad-
mission that he is the author OF the let
ters to Mrs. Sells created a profound SEN
sation here.
The letters written by Lyons start out
with "a thousand kisses" and as time
grows apace he increases these oscuia-
tions daily until in his latest illusions
nothing less than ten million goes, and
at this stage Of the game he was writing
letters daily.
In his fifteen letters he I'm fancy kissed
Darling Name" over l00,O00,000 times,
and an unkind attorney, who IL a better
mathematician than a lover. figured out
that Adam could not have perfcSmed this
feat N he and Eve had lived together
hundreds OF years and their sole occupa-
ton was osculating.
The first Australia letter was written
here September p. 1891, and was ad-
dressed MY Dear. Dear Name" This
letter says that she has been exceedingly
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 sweet
heart all by myself. God bless her! l love
her and her alone. oh. but you are dear
to me, and love your dear memory bet
ter than life
POSTAGE As CENTS.
On this letter were forty-eight cents in
stamps, and the writer speaks of the
gloom and despair In which he is plunged
while Name il away The absence OF
Name has nearly killed him, says the
writer, strong man that he Is. "A mil
lion kisses are sent toward the Anti
podes.
The next letter read by Attorney Peters
was dated January 20, 1892. This was
signed Harry" Harry says IL was then
five degrees below zero, and though he
has not much to say. will manage 10
write letter before he gets through.
lie wants 10 take her I'm his arms and
look deep down into her eyes-the eyes
of his long lost darling. From this torrid
talk he drops down 10 the snow and sleigh
business. He says he turned down an
offer for a sleigh ride, as he didn't want
TO go Another million kisses" went
with this epistle.
On January q, 1892, six more pages went
20 Name. This was also written by Har.
ry Lyons. This Is another underscored
Dear. dear Name" effusion. lie says
the ship from Sidney is due at Frisco
that day. He says that he hopes Name
still idoliZes her absent one"
While this was beirg read Mrs. Sells
came into court. This letter was finish
ell on afternoon OF twcnty-second He
wants baby dear" kissed for him. and
his love given TO Gussie. Another mil
lion kisses"
ANGELS WOULD BE JEALOUS"
A letter dated January 10. 1892. was ad-
dressed To My own dear Name, mine
and mine only. The letter says:
liOW L WOutu IKE TO take you In my
arms, my long lost sweetheart And /
shall never be happy until can hold you
in my arms for an hour at least. Maybe
j would not improve those sixty minutes.
The angels In Heaven would be jealous.
To-day ! would give you sleigh ride II
hung for it,"
The writer says that IL he and Name
We're in Frisco. they would never come
back and would be- happy forever He
furfhar .cl that ha fnf k.igl
Names father and mother down the val
ley. Away of here i'm America" the
writer says. there lives boy who loves
you always
He speaks OF n wedding he attended
and says: "IIcv happy | would be IL II
was only our wedding. What a Heaven
of Happiness. my lovely queen. II would
be for me. Perhaps IL may he 40 In the
dim future. With million kisses. darl-
ing, am yours and yours only. Harry"
HoRRID DREAM
In "P. g. he says he dreamed about
Name and that they were on n big shin.
but that Name was not loving toward
him. He concludes by saying but II was
only q dream"
Then followed In the deposition letter
signed Harry" and dated Columbus.
January rs. 1892. This IL addressed to
Dear dear Name" both "dears'' being
underscored. In this the writer saws he
must wait and wait and walt until my
ship comes In"
He is anxiously awaiting tho ships re-
turn. he says, and is counting the hours
until her dear letters arrive He SAYS he
10 going 20 get down to the office early.
40 the boys won , know that he got any
fetters. He saws he was weighed and
I pped the beam at l7s, and he Is en-
savoring 10 look and be wen when his
sstheart returns
ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.
Another correspondent named Is VIII
naa Bott. prominent young business
man.
TIE deposition was read OF Mrs. Angus