Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-19

of n play by Pinero. Maria E. Johnson
Reynolds, the present Mrs. Morse, was
a Californian. beautiful, fascinating and
a widow when Morse first met her. Sf.-
had been married and divorced before
Morse made her his wife. Reg n9lds,
her first husband, had been sen. 10 the
penitentiary or a charge of embczzie-
ment. She had spent her time and pri-
vate fortune working for his release and
reformation. had met him at the prison
doors when his sentence expired, stood
by his side and fearessy shared his
shame before the world. Net until the
prison doors closed upon MIN fer the
second time cid she forsake him. When
hope of his reformation was lost she
sought a separation. Reynolds came
from the penitentiary. wandered TO
Australia and died there nobody knows
how. She worked in Los Angeles copy
ing for attorneys and maintained her
self until her mother inherited a fort
une. Her reputation was unstained and
her friends We're ununumbered. While
staying at resort hotel she met Morse
who was en- tour with his first wife
whose health was precarous. Morse APP
young widow, for after the death of his
Wife which occurred shortly after their
return from California he lost little time
in seeking her out He urged his sui
with an ardor scarcely to have been
expected from his years. She says he
told her his income amounted to $1,000
monthly, and that he had nothing to do
but spend it. Metphorically he took her
upon a high mountain and showed her
the Kingdoms of the earth and told he.
to take her pick. He was irresistible.
The blushing widow gave her hand and
presumably her heart into his keeping
and became the second Mrs. Morse.
This was in July 80.
The welded pair came to Grinnell.
Mrs Morse didn't like it there. She
went little into society and became dis
satisfied and unhappy. Matters were
not, she said, as Morse had represented
TO her when he gained her consent to
matrimony. The tours of travel he had
promised failed to materialize. Instead
of profusion of means and money she
was expected to econimize She grew
nervous and hysterical and was met. SO
she says, with sneers and contempt. She
complained and was met with a charge
of mercenary motives for her marriage.
At last she was charged with infidelity
to her husband. The matter eliminated
in a tearing domestic row and at eleven
O'clock at night she left the house. She
took the midnight train for Chicago wit
but S25 in her purse. On her arrival in
the city she went to the auditorium and
sent for Secretary Bromley of the
American bicycle trust. Bromley was
an old acquaintance, a friend, and
thorough gentleman who had once
sought her hand in marriage. He came
bringing with him a physician and a
nurse who had attended her on another
occasion. She was three nights in Chi
cago and when in the opinion of the at
tending physician she was physically
able to, bear the journey was sent home
accompanied by the nurse whom Morse
at once turned away. Morse charged
her with undue and criminal intimacy
with Bromley and that she had staid
two of the nights during the Chicago
trip in house of bad repute.
The woman grew desperate and her
| nervous condition became dangerously
| near to insanity according to the testi-
mony of local physicians. She was
| sent to sanitarium at Battle Creek