Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-20
Sadie Mason's Love Missives
introduced as Evidence In
Trial at Davenport
FUN FOR COURT SPECTATORS
Mother of the Girl Evidently More to
Blame Than Anyone for Breaking of
the Match and Thus Bringing on an
Expensive Breach of Promise Suit
Iowa News.
Special to Tines Republican.

creaSlng IN the trltli OF the case "
Robert d. Fowler suing Sadie A. Mason
for $4,000 damages for breach of prom.
Use and the district court room is
crowded with interested spectators
Joe r. Lane, for the defense, is con-
ltiucting the cross-examination and II
has been interesting from the start
After exhaustively cross questioning
the plaintiff Attorney Lane introduced
as evidence bunch of thirty-seven let
tiers written by the plaintiff to the de-
PENDANT The reading of these letters
was commenced and they breathe from
their very depth of love co and affec-
ton. Many passages are such as to
excite the risibilities of those in the
audience whose hearts have never been
stung by Cupid's darts, while to others
| they seem to come home with a dull,
sickening thud.
| Attorney Carroll, for the plaintiff,
concluded the reading of the defend
ants letters to the plaintiff. They, too,
were interesting and productive of
much good to any one wishing pointers
upon the up-to-date art of writing let
| tiers Of the heart.
| Again they are an interesting study
| of the emotions which overcome the
heart of woman swayed between sup
posed love for a man and real love for
| a mother. Extracts from the letters
speak for themselves.
Almost at the start Of the corresponds
ence she tells of the trouble at homo
over her match. In letter written
early in June Miss Mason says: Il told
dear mother all about our engagement
Hast night and she did not sleep wink
sn night. / just could not keep 1t from
her, for love her so well. But, my
dear Bob, you must not worry, for am
yours forever"
In the next letter she says: Il am
swayed just now between love for my
dear mother and my kind, loving little
boy. / love you still, but don't know
what to do. I can never leave my
mother and until something changes
we will have to go on as before.
In the next letter she gently chides
him for being impatient and sends him,
by mail, KISSES Us Hlttiiy do sou AiAsstA~
want if you We're only here.
Shortly after she writes and tells
him that he must not consider their
engagement broken. She also remarks
that she is. "Bob's own girl own true
and loving girl" She signs herself,
with touching melancholy Bops
most miserable girl, Sadie
Writing under date of June 20 she
starts the letter with: MY dear Bob,
and continues that Bob is the only
one for me-" After talking over the
affair of the objections of her mother,
on the ground of too short an acquain
lance. ETC., she says: Your love ana
kisses accepted, but only wish that
they We're real"
Upon cross-examination the witness
said that the letter, which indefinitely
POSTPONED the date of their marriage,
"made his health little worse, there
hy arousing the mirth of the court room
auditors.
on June S0th, in letter, Miss Mas
on tells of going to theAEllSs carnival In
this city and enjoying it very much.
but not nearly so much as she should
have had zone other been here. She
encloses: "all the kisses you want.
On July 4th, the mothers love be-
gins to assert itself and the love for
Bob" begins to grow slightly cold.
Writing under this date the fair de-
PENDANT says: 81 love you with my
whole heart and soul, but the love of
nv mother is stronger. My own
true and loving boy think we both
love each other too much to let this
nd f.
tiers will adjust themselves so that we
can patiently await the time that mo-
Their will give her consent. I received
the present all right, and 1t was even
dearer to me because your hands made
it. love Bob in the same old way.
Your always loving sweetheart"
Then there is a lapse in the CORES
pondence, but on July % she writes
telling him that he must not come to
see her and that she KNOWS she is
not treating her dear Bob right" but
that she would rather die than leave
mother mother thinks that we
have not known each other long enough
and mother knows best. am yours
still-trust in God and wait"
But it was on August 10Th that the
crash came. She writes: Bob, / see
you mean to force me into marrying
you-our engagement must be broken
for the best-if you loved me as you
say you do you would have done as /
asked you-this is the reward that a |
girl gets for kindness-forever. Good
bye"
Then the breach of promise suit |
came.
The evidence showed most conclus-
lively that If any one was ever willing |
to marry, that person was Robert D. |
Fowler of Cedar Rapids. On two oc-
casions his mother went on missionary
trips to try and fix things UP between |
the two young folks. But her efforts
were without avail. Mrs. Mason was
wise in the ways of the world, If her
daughter was not, and with the res
oluteness of which a mother is cana
BILE, she set her foot firmly upon the
project of her daughter marrying the
young travelling salesman from Cedar
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