The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-21
Curtain Drawn on Hassel-Ri
ardson Drama.
LAST ACT HAS BEEN CLOSED
Husband and Lover is Without Either
Sweetheart or Wife. Both Refusing
to Have Further to Do
With Him.

For a time at least the curtain falls
pn the Hassel- Richardson mutual In
1atuat;on drama Miss Annie Louise
Richardson, who since last Saturday has
been in Norfolk with Guy Carleton Has
seI passc- through the city last night
for the paternal home in Louisa county.
She was accompanied by her father,
Rev. z. Parker Richardson. who had
been in Norfolk since Thursday morn
ang looking for her.
Mr. Richardson and his daughter We're
seen at the Main-Street Depot yesterday
,evening by a Times reporter, where the
former made the following statement
for the press: That he was in the post
office in Norfolk Thursday afternoon
when his daughter. came in. and. seeing
him. came directly to him. She ex-
pressed willingness to so home with
him.
Later. Attorney Bibb. acting as eoun-
Sci Tor Hasscl asked for an interview
for him with Mr.. Richardson. He was
reluctant at first. not seeing the good
of it. but finally granted it. Hassel saw
Mr. Richardson yesterday morning. and
WAS pIpluEc III cAliS S-oSiSli' VI Y
;,ret at what had occurred
He asked the grief-strtcken father
what he ought to do. aIr. Richardson
told him he ought to go to his wife and
live with her. Hassel replied that he
could nercr do that He stated to Mr..
Richardson tha. he loved his daughter
He told the father. however. that he
would cease all communication forever
with Miss Richardson Mr.. Richardson
asserted yesterday on his own account
that he would have to do that
The daughter says she will have moth
1ng to do Will. him again, anu the IA
ther is confident she will not.
MAD INFATUATION.
Mr. Richardson says he is assured that
the man was not guilty OF anything
criminal, and that on the part of botn
st was a mad infatuation and grossest
indiscretion. He never expects to hear
ANYTHING more of Hassel and doesn [
want to- He and his daughter left last
night at lo:3o O'Clock for Louisa. They
came up on the Norfolk and Western
and went Immediately to the Main
Street Depot, where they waited until
their train left.
Hassel is in Norfolk. and the father
of Miss Richardson .oes not care row
OF pins where he goes or what he does
so he keeps away from LOUISA IL he
there 1fonDlc Will cciiS "
Miss Richardson is slender girl. aI'-
nareptly about twentynne years OF age.
She has dark brown hair and olive COM
n,exion. She wears glasses. and an
earnest thoughtful and sorrowful nght
shone through them from the dark blue
eyes She wore a white shirtwalst ana
dark skirt Sac and her father walkeo
down Main Street together, and all the
time she was talking with him earnestly
She tells her father she will be glad 10
GET home once more out of the mercl-
less gaze of the public.
WIFE WILL NOT RECElr HIM.
The same writer called at NO. S22s Wesi
Main Street yesterday afternoon Tor
talk with Mrs. Hassel, but she SEM
dow, the message that she thought that
the newspapers had printed enough ABOUT
the case, and therefore declined 10 oe
seen. 1t was positively stated at the
house. however. that she would never
ro back to Hassel or let him come TO
see her.
She is done with i1in; Miss Richard
son is done With him, and so the last
chapter ends. leaving him working in
surance in Norfolk, married to one wo-
man. in love with another, neither OF
Dhor, will see him.