The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-02
sSHE IS FRUSTRATED
Mrs, Murray Is Quite III al
Her Home.
MOTIVES WERE GOOD
Was Friendly to Advance
Husbands Interests.

Pitiable things happen even in Wichita
things tina touch the human heart.
Lying in her bed yesterday, with ner-
vous prostration. Mrs. Lang Murray,
whose husband quit his home and went
to the Carey hotel to board, pleaded not
to have q single charge made assinst
him IN the Eagle. q am glad to oblige
the Eagle" she said. ''but please say
nothing concerning Mr. Murray"
The little lady was quite sick and in
bed. Far away from home, in a com
paratively strange land. her home was
deserted by all except a faithful colored
man and a colored woman. She cried as
If her heart were breaking.
What was her sickness? The gossipers
said she had attempted suicide. She had
not. It was the natural nervous prostra-
ton Of q sensitive little woman with
small boy-a mere baby-sixteen hundred
miles away from her family and her
natural friends
A noble little heart is in the breast Of
Mrs. Murray. She said she had, perhaps,
been 4njudicious in being too friendly with
the people she met, but she had heard it
influence in securing ETAOINETAOOO
was the way Of the west and thought her
influence In securing friendships would
advance her young husband in the com
Her whole thought and her highest am
bition was his advancement. popularity
and prestige among the people Of Wichi-
ia, socially and In business.
The poor boy" she called him in
manner that was too afectionate 10 be
,nsincere.
I declare" she said. as tears rolled
down her cheeks, II do not know what
TO do except to trust in the faith of my
motives and IN the good people of Wich-
TIA for my vtndication. Reporters have
besieged my house desiring to ind out
all my family affairs. I did not know
quite what 10 do but to remain silent
Dc you think, ar = reporter, that ought
70 be subjected to such torture? Remenn-
Der that I am not complaining, for I do
ret know whether It is the custom Of the
west or otherwise that such matters
should be mad lblio. I am sure that
I would like TO oblige everybody, but
confess I do not always know the best
way TO do it."
Mrs. Murray has been called smart"
The word Is not expressive She is
bright, refined and highly cultured lady
'of remarkable cleverness in making her
self agreeable. That is the reason she is !
called smart" She talks too innocently, /
too candid and with too much confidence (
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the description of what is known in the 4
west as a smart" woman
In her distress AIRS. Murray IS not with I
out friends. A woman is never wholly /
deserted so long as Hsr own sex do not 1
lose interest in her. Many of the best /
known women ia Wichita called yester-
day to OFFER their encouragement and I
others wrote expressing their sympathy. /
She talked Of them TO an Eagle reporter /
in the most afectfonate manner and tears I
again came to her eyes as she referred /
to the nobility OF Mrs Speer, Mrs. Hen I
rion and other well known ladies who (
expressed unaTterab1e confidence in the /
propriety OF her actions. Come what I
may of my sorrows," she said. Il shall I
never forget the women who have given /
me their sympathy in this the darkest /
hour of my life.
Il have some pride" she said. Il shall 4
not entirely sa~rifce #. made mis-
take in the first marriage. but think too /
much of Mr.. Murray and his dear father
and mother, sister and other friends to
acknowledge that made q mistake in
my second marriage I stiu love Mr.
Murray. It is awful to think that 7
shall abandon all the hopes that L formed 1
of his bright future when I came west
with him to adapt myself willingly 20
conditions that was not used TO-"
Mrs. Murray is as innocent as child
about the ways of the law. She has no
idea of the procedure in a divorce case
in Kansas
Mrs. Murray is q years old. The story
of the gossips about her being an actress
are absolutely without foundation. She
came from one OF the best families in
the state Of New York and had all the
a woman Of talent and am
bition could desire. She has the friend
ship of Mr.. Murray's relatives, reports to
the contrary notwithstanding. and they
have her unqualified friendship in return.
She has q little boy four years Old
a regular light-headed little Lord Faun-
tleroy. The lad, like his mother Is hand
Some and bright y am ouly four" he
said to the Eagle reporter, land when I
an FIVE / win be as bis as my mamma"
He is not very far from &c now. as Mrs.
Murray is a very little woman.