Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-05-11
LOVE STORY IN CHAPTERS.
Characters Assumed by Husband In
Two Years.
WIFE CAME TO ALBUQUERQUE.
Chapter 1.

Stealing away under of dark
ness, Charles r. Burge and Nellie Mar
shall, of Des Moines, Iowa. fed to a
was two years ago.
Objections of the parents Of both OF
the young people proved Of nc avail.
I'VE love each other and will go
through life happy. contented," was
the message the young people sent to
their respective homes.
Chapter II.
Fresh from the Iowa state college,
young Burge brought his bride to Den.
yer. They were happy until the mon
ey ave out and then it was the old
story of Master Cupid fleeing by the
window when poverty came stalking
in the door.
The bride of a few months wrote let
tiers to her parents in Iowa and said
she was unhappy. Positions were not
hanging around on trees for the young
husband to pluck, and he grew discour-
aged.
Chapter III.
One evening in the summer of 1902
he returned to his little rooms to find
that his wife had gone to Albuquerque,
N: M, with her mother.
Love still had a place in the young
husbands heart and when he found his
wife had fed he wrote her a letter ask.
ing her to return. He waited long for
an answer n it failed to come; then
he wrote again.
Chapter ~.
Early in October last year he receiv,
ed an answer-not the answer he had
long dreamed for, but one hat was
cold, filed with r~eproaches, haunting
statements.
Then love died in his heart and he
wrote a letter-a letter filed with sen
fences n a aroused the young wife's
mother to action. The letter was turn
ed over to the United States postal of
ficials and they decided it was objec
tionable.
Chapter v.
An officer from the secret service Of
flee in Denver sought out young Burge
and arrested him. He was taken away
TO jail to await the action of the fed
eral grand jury. He was given a hear
ing and held to Judge Hallett's court.
Chapter VI.
. When the young wife heard that her
husband had been arrested, love
awoke, and, while she had secured a di.
vorce on the ground OF desertion, she
wrote a letter to the United States
district attorney asking for mercy for
her former husband, and explaining
that she may have been the cause of
the letter which caused her husband's
arrest.
Chapter VII.
Today young Burge faced Judge Hal
lett. Assistant District Attorney Err
nest Knaebel read the charges against
the young man, and he entered a plea
OF guilty.
Your Honor" said Attorney Knae
bel, 'hD u Office we feel sorry for this
young a He has letters from con
gressmen, senators and the president
or the Iowa state college, telling of his
good character, II is a case of a run.
away marriage that has proven unhap
Ply. The young man confesses to the
charge of writing the letter, and il the
court please, | ask that you show him
mercy"
Judge Hallett pondered long over the
case, looked at the letters and at last
said: Il feel that you have suffered
The law must be upheld, and as a re
suit will give you a light fne-s1C
and costs"
Conclusion.
And now, If Attorney Knaebel has
his way, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Burge
will take up their broken thread OF life
face the world anew and let bygones
be bygones.-Denver Post.