Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-16

He Is Now in Albuquerque and Keeps
Music Going Day and Night,
VERY PRETTY ROMANCE.

to become his bride, has gone home
heartbroken.
Taylor is blind. A few years q
while employed in the Santa Fe shops
at Los Angeles he lost his sight in an
explosion. After tina he was depend
ent upon his friends to direct his steps.
Sometimes when there was no one to
pilot him through the throngs on the
streets, he would take a SICK in his
hand and pick his way through the
crowd. When he came to a crossing
he would ask some stranger TO help
him across the street. and there was
never a refusal.
Two years q when the crowd was
larger than usual. he waited a Ions
time before any one volunteered TO
lead him. Then ne heard the pleasant
voice of a woman. Taking his hand in
hers she guided him to the other side
of the street. There was something in
the voice that appealed to him. He
asked her name and address and il
was cheerfully given. The woman was
Mrs. j. Bolles, of Denver.
The unusual meeting led to a friend
ship and then the widow had to return
to Colorado. The day she left there
was a wreck On the railroad, and Tay-
lcr feared for the safety of the woman
who had befriended him. He had a
companion write to her in Denver and
learn If she had escaped uninjured.
This led to a correspondence. They
became engaged to be married.
There was little chance for poverty
ever entering its h~eartrending wedge
to separate the two. He had entered
suit through his attorneys for $685. 900
damages against the railroad. and it
was almost certain that he would win.
At last the time began to draw near
when they should be united, and Mrs.
Bolles wrote him to come.
Last Saturday he arrived in Denver.
She was at the station to meet him,
and together they went t the Victor
hotel, where he was assigned a room
and made comfortable, and then she
returned to her own home. The we'd
ding was to have taken place today.
Last night she came to see him at the
hotel. In apparent calmness she told
him that her husband, whom she had
thought dead for six years. had sud
denly appeared upon the scene, and
that they could not be married. She
thanked him, and she hoped he would
not grieve, and she told him good bye.
She left him broken hearted. Blind.
devoted to her and her alone, he was
too stunned by the blow &c speak. she
left for Cripple Creek.
Then someone told him that she had
wilfully left him, and that her husband
did not come after her. A light of
hope dawned in his heart and he went
in search of her. She had gone.
The people at the hotel say that af.
ter he arrived she got the idea that he
had no money and had lost his suit.
When she had gone he informed his
new found Denver friends that the
courts had awarded a verdict in his
favor and hat he would be Independent
for life. The woman never knew it.
There. read that" said one of the
Lous at the White Elephant resort, as
ne DIOuuCtu Il paper CONTAINING liz
above Tilted story and presented it to
the blind man.
pity, it's said Taylor, Il cannot
read. When my eyes were removed
through an accident, God never re-
stored them, and /, humble and obedi-
ent, submit to others to read for me-"
Just then a Citizen man appeared on
| tho aanno onH 4haH Z rtiola Nyog road m
the blind man, who, for the past week,
has made banjo music on the principa.
corners of Railroad avenue and from
these public exhibitions secures aims
through an empty cigar boX.
What have you got to say about the
article?" aswed the reporter.
1T is a pretty story but woefully
wrong in some respects" said Taylor.
81 was never in an explosion in the Los
Angeles shops. | lost the sight of my
eyes in the Santa Fe machine shops
of Topeka, Kansas, on September 3,
1881, by small pieces of steel flying
in my eyes. | sued the Santa Fe
railroad company for the accident, be-
cause that company could not have
prevented the accident, and again, |
want to say, the Santa Fe officials
have always been most liberal to me,
and | can go and come, at my pleasure,
free of all cost, on the Santa Fe lines.
Ten years ago | went to Los Angeles
land remained there all the time until
/, through accident, met the Colorado
widow who has Tilted me. The balance
of the story is about true. and just be-
fore / left Denver for Albuquerque a
friend tipped the wink to me that had
the marriage occurred would have FL.
ways regretted the affair, for the wo-
man has three living husbands n all
of them had 10 quit her on account Of
her dark Deeds
What Is the Use