Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-07

acter being anything but what 1T shoulo
be. / also said that my impression was
that people We're not talking about her,
and that all | had heard was thru her
mother that afternoon. She SAID sEe
thought she had better resign her ONCE
as president of the League. l advised
her not to do so and said there was no
need or demand for it. I also told her
that her troubles We're imaginary. l
then pressed her to tell me the Whole
truth about the matter in regard to this
man. She replied that she had allowed
him to accompany her home several
times. supposing he was unmarried. She
also said she had met and talked to MIN
in the office several times. / especially
asked her in regard to her relations
with him. She gave me to understand
that they had been honorable. l toio
her IL that was all she had nothing 10
worry over, as she was innocent.
asked her If he was the first speciai
company she had ever hal She replied,
I never cared enough for any one else
to go with them She spoke of his last
visit on Oct. %, and said that she had
asked him If he was a married man.
She said he replied that he was. Fan
ME then told me that she had told FER
kins in plain language what she thought
of him, and he left the postoftice. can
not now remember what she stated ne
said on leaving her. asked her again,
before she left. If her relations with
Perkins had ever gone farther than his
walking home with her. She answered
no. then told her her trouble was i'm
aginary and people would think of 1t as
only a joke on her. She seemed to feel
relieved and went away more cheerful.
! saw her again a short time afterwards
and she again asked me what thought
people would say. treasured her as l
had done before"
Mothers Sad Story.
Mrs. Lavicy Whitmore, the widowed
mother Of the dead girl, was seen at the
home of relative in Liscomb. This
grey-haired woman tells a sad story OF
her daughters evident infatuation,
mental arrangement and untimely
death She is an old-fashioned, plain
minded person and shows the suffering
thru which she has passed during the
last few weeks. She said: "As we'll as
can remember 1t was in May that Per-
kins walked home with my daughter
Fannie the first time. Fannie brought
him into the house and introduced him
to me- Perkins was in Union in June.
My daughter said she talked with him
in the postoffice He also came in July
and Fannie saw him and talked with
him again. After their first meeting l
asked Fannie how she knew Perkins
was not a married man. She told me
that Mrs. Bertha Barnes. who held the
position of assistant to Postmaster
Haas before my daughter, said that
he was not, and said also that he was
all right, so far as she knew. When
Perkins came in August he walked out
home with Fannie, but he did not come
in. 1t was about 1880 in the evening.
He did not come farther than the gate.
Fannie, when she came into the house,
was agitated. She told me that Mr..
Perkins would not bear acquaintance.
/ asked her If he had tried to impose
upon her, but she did not answer and
soon afterwards went to bed. The next
morning she was calmer and again
asked her. She said, He is rough and
can not talk to woman without get
ting in front of her as close as he can
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