The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-12
TRUTH SPOILS
PRETTY TALE
MONTANA SHEEP sHEARER
TURNED INTO MILLIONAIRE.
STORY OF MANS DEVOTION
Facts as Alleged to- Be Take Much Of
GIamor From Touching
Romance.

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Every time a man from Montana
goes east he instantly becomes a
! millionaire-in the minds of the peo-
pie among whom he may be scjourn-
ing, especially If he manages to land
in a community that has newspapers
and reporters. An instance illustra-
tive Of this wonderful transmutation
from what may be described as pow
erty to oppulency is contained in the
| story sent out from Omaha a few days
ago about William w. Hately, who
committed suicide there, after leaving
a tender letter and legacy to his d.
| vorced wife, now said to be the wife
of Charles Sterile Of Newton, this
state. The story told all about how
Hately's wife met Sterile, a million
aire, and fell in love with him; how
Hately, realizing the advantages his
wife and children would have could
they obtain a claim to Stierle's mill
lions, consented to a divorce sc, that
the woman might marry the million
aire.
The pathetic tale of mans devotion
is as follows: !
"'My dear wife, my love, l love
you. l will leave you at / O'Clock.
May God bless you. For you l will
leave $4,000. Ny love was greater
than word q tell. BILL
These words, scrawled with trem-
bling hand on a sheet Of common note.
paper, were addressed to Mrs. Chas.
Stierle of Newton, Mont, by the man
who first married her, William w.
Hately.
Last Sunday morning, on the lawn
in front OF his boarding house, and
with his former wife's name Upon
his lips, Hately killed himself by
shooting.
"Hately came here many years ago,
as the residents of this new city use the
term many Fifteen years age he
entered a clothing company's employ
ment and soon became one of it's
most trusted employees. Three years
later Matte May Lowe, the daughter
of a family well known and in COM
Portable circumstances, became his
wife. Two children were born as a re-
suit of the marriage-Jean, now II,
and Robert, now 9 years of age.
rThe Hately home, though not
large, was happy and filled with ordi-
nary comforts. Hately came from a
good family, one that knows how to
live well. His aged mother, Mrs.
Thomas Hately of No. 4 Cross Row,
| Gateshead, England, is reputed to be
wealthy, but Hately's nature was one
of independence, and although fire.
quently struggling against a semi
poverty, he always refraiped from APP
plying for assistance from his mother
or from his brother-in-law, E. F. De-
right, a prominent safe dealer in
Omaha.
AAAS AAS "NS ~A"Ny
and seemingly content in her position.
although her friends say she some
times sighed for more of the worlds
comforts than Hately was capable of
giving her.
"Hately a little over a year ago
moved to Newton, Mont, taking his
wife and two children with him. Pow
erty gaunt and real there overlook
him. He was no longer able to pro-
vide his wife with the comforts to
which she had been accustomed, and
he noticed that her affection for him
was rapidly departing. 1t was a still
greater grief for HIM when he discov-
cred that her love had not only been
lost to him, but that her heart had
been won by another. Charles
Sterile, a millionaire, manly
and withal honorable. Not a
faint of suspicion was directed
against his wife. Although loving
Charles Sterile and with the former
love for her husband dead within her,
she still followed the duty of a wife
and uncomplainingly chung to him.
But Hatelysaw.
ut was agreed that a divorce
should be obtained by Mrs. Hately
with Hately's consent, so that she
could wed her new love. The divorce
was granted and Hately never utter
ed a murmur.
"Hately returned to Omaha immedi-
ately after the divorce was granted.
He procured a position with Thomas
Fitzpatrick & Co., and for the past
year had shown no failure in his du-
ties and no reduction in his CONNER
cial abilities because of his troubles
They may tell the plain, nude truth,