The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-27

charged valet Of Mr.. Teal was in the
witness-box swearing to acts Of Miss Cay
van which he said he had seen-Swearing
to the truth of things which would have
been terrible enough If true, which were
ten thousand times more terrible, being
false from beginning to end.
One woman identified her as the person
who had come to her house with Oliver
Tean because, she said. Miss Cayvan
parted her hair in the middle and came
in a cab-a nice legal Identification for
an innocent woman to be Scared by.
At first Miss Cayvan did not know Of
the charges made against her. When she
did hear them, the wrong was done.
Her character had been assailed. What
use was a suit for damages second
trial?
Her good name was doubted-that
which next to he honor a woman holds
dearest.
But If the courts were not open for her
defense, the newspapers were And
through them she denied the charge
against her.
The Professional Woman's League, the
Mary Arden Shakespeare Club, Sorosis,
the West End Woman's Republican Club
defended her against the charge with as
deep a sincerity and earnestness as
though they themselves had been &C
cused
Mrs William Tod HelmUth, Mrs A
NJ. Palmer and Miss Viola Allen were
some of the prominent women who de-
cIared their belief in Miss Cayvan's in
nocence.
TT will he almost laughable,'' she said,
when they do know" And she tried to
be courageous until then.
So great was the feeling aroused over
the accusations brought against Miss
Cayvan that finally court was convened
in order that she might tell her own
story-a thing never before permitted to
a woman in her position.
The charges against her were shown
to be false It was shown that Mr.. and
Mrs Teal had arranged two years before
to get a divorce and that Mr.. Teal had
been ignorant of the use Of Miss Cay
vans name in the SUIT until it was too
late to have it withdrawn without her
knowledge.
At the end Of the trial Mrs. TealPs at
torney publicly apologized for having per-
mitted Miss Cayvan's name to be men
toned and everything possible was done
to give her back the honorable place
she had held
Il want it all forgotten as soon as pos
sible-forgotten by the public I myself
can never forget It," she said, and her
eyes filed with tears.
Meanwhile she had formed a company
OF her own and was starring through the
states.
A New England manager had offered to
back her, and she hoped to recover her
health, forget her troubles, regain her
old place and make enough money to
build UP the small fortune she had been
obliged to spend while she was abroad
sick.
But it was too late. Her heart was not
in the work. She had lost her skill in
choosing plays and when half across the
continent with heavy losses at every
turn, her manager withdrew his support
and left her to get home as best she
could.
She came back at once and paid the
company's debts from her own fortune,
which took all the money she had been
saving for rainy day.
Another trip abroad. in 1865, did her
very little good, and when she came
back, determined to work and throw on
the restlessness and WEAKNESS that was
haunting her, she acted for ten nights in
her last play "A Woman's Silence" and
then left the stage forever.
For awhile after that she lived at home
very quietly. She had bought the house
No. 351 West One Hundred and Twenty
second street nine years before and had
always kept house for the love of It. At
first her friends We're only too glad to go
and see her and congratulate her on talk
ing rest. But gradually they saw that
something was the matter beyond the
physical disease that had been troubling
her.
Day and night she was thinking Of the
strange fate that had spoiled life for
her Her mind was weakened by the con-
slant grief, and that affecting her bodily
health she gradually became so III that
she could be no longer taken care of at
home and was removed to Sanford Hall,
Flushing, in hopes that perfect rest would
restore her.
That is all. She is only one in a great
city full of people and very soon she
may not be here at all
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Explosion Wrecks Church.
St Joseph, No. Dec. 26.-As the re-
suit of fire caused by the explosion Of
an air tight stove, the Providence Meth
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