The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-06
FOOLISH WOMAN AND A MAN.
Lessons to he Drawn from the BOnine-
Ayres Tragedy.

Milwaukee Free Press.
There is a woman on trial for her life in
Washington for the killing of young man
with whom she had been intimate. She is
a married woman, so the intimacy was i'm
proper. no matter how she carried herself
in it. 1t was one Of the sort of intimacies
that is forever being repeated in family
hotels and boarding houses, where men and
women, who are nothing to each other,
and under any other circumstances could
never become anything to each other, grow
familiar in an altogether too familiar way.
That was the condition in the Washington
hotel. The young married woman, and the
much younger unmarried man became
friends" Had the married woman been
living as a married woman ought to live,
in home of her own, of some kind, the
intimacy would have been improbable at
least. But she was at this hotel, with moth
ing to Go but TO be amused, and to amuse
And her husband who is standing
by her as If he believes in her, was away
from home most of the time.
The young man who was killed was of the
sporty sort. unit for a companion for
any woman, married or single, who cared
for her reputation. This woman did not
care, from all the evidence. Any hour of
night and any place were all the same TO
her; She was good deal of a fool, if
else that Is worse for woman 10 be- That
sort of includes. 1t included a good deal
else with this Washington woman. Stories
of her Jealousy of other women who were
supposed 10 share the favOrs of the sporty
young man have figured in the trial. He
came 10 her room. and she went to his, TO
mend things for him, and 10 examine his
accounts. IL is always so nice TO have some
female friend" 10 come and examine your
accounts. She did this because she was his
friend She is one of the boarding hotel
women who takes il upon herself TO regu-
late the affairs OF all the men in the house;
either that or something else. But she
family hotels are full of such, and scan
dals are always Matching there. That is,
they are always ready to hatch.
The sporty young man-he was very popu-
lar among all the women at the hotel
comes to the married wOmans door at
small hour in the night and asks her TO
come to his room. He is not feeling well,
and wants 10 have her tell him what he
had better do. She goes to his room, and
finds him in his underwear She is sur
prised that he should meet her in such cos
tune, but goes in just the same. An nour
afterwards she is back in her room, and
/ the sporty young man is dead in his room.
! She is the only one who can tell about what
happened. He is past telling He Is prob
/ ably one of the interesting sort who would
/ not mind telling if he were alive. Her story
/ is that he made some advances that she
/ resented; that her honor was in danger.
I 1t was a queer surrounding for a woman
/ with an honor she was jealous Of But
that is the family" hotel OF it.
Now, the court is trying 10 find out
| whether the married woman killed the
/ sporty young to save her honor -
/ or the young man, in a struggle, killed
/ himself
! There is no impossibility that the married
i woman is guilty of nothing worse than be-
! ing a fool The killing OF the sporty young
1 man who was popular with all the Wom-
en- in the hotel is not matter TO be re-
! GREETED. And III one OF the bullets-there
/ were three Of them fred-had done for the
I nE -V1uN fsav
f regretting that PrOmscuOus parading
around in the middle OF the night in I'M
dress. now in your own room. now in that OF
\ some body else, and the whole mixed with
revovers and shooting. well. a good ending
would be the killing of all who are engaged
in IL.