The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-05-27

Grace BOttOrG, VINO naQ Deen IN jail
since Sunday morning on the charge
Of shooting George II. Taylor, whom
she thought to be her husband, left
Canton on the $40 Wheeling and Lake
Erie railway Tuesday evening, free
woman. She had been released from
custody upon the order of Prosecuting
Attorney r. Fl. Day, with the consent
Of the city authorities who had order
ed her arrest.
She was accompanied home by her
mother, Mrs. D. e. Bottorf, Mrs. Jacob
Myers, of Canal Fulton, who is an aunt,
Mrs. Sherman of Ashtabula, Prosecut-
ing Attorney Clyde NJ. Taylor, Frank
w. Wagner and John w. Laskey, all Of
Ashtabula, who we're friends who had
come 10 Canton in the interests of the
accused woman.
Hearing of the departure, a curious
crowd gathered at the station to see
the woman, but their curiosity had to
be satisfied with fleeting glance at her
as she hurried through the crowd and
passed into the car. Once inside, the
window curtain was quickly drawn,
and the woman who had endured 80
much IN Canton passed out Of the city
happy that she was free from the
charge of murder, yet with a great
BURDEN OF SORROW
upon her that will blast her young life
forever.
She came to Canton joyous bride
q little over a year ago and passed a
happy honeymoon. She and her sup
posed husband were happy in each
others love. In ner keeping was a
marriage certificate, mute evidence
tnat she was legal wife. Later, the
ardor of her husbands love began to
wane. In his younger days, while
still boy, he had married woman in
Cleveland. His treatment of her was
such that she applied to the courts and
was divorced. Apparently the man had
become enamored of other girls and
wanted to be rid of his second wife.
He began to neglect and mistreat her
Getting possession of the marriage IL
cense he destroyed 1t and then told
the trusting woman TO her face that
they had
NEVER BEEN MARRIED.;
that the ceremony at the Hollenden ho-
tel in Cleveland was a sham and a
mockery. So strong had been the wife's
faith that she did not believe the state
ment, consoling herself with the delu-
sion that he was telling her that simply
to annoy her and make her unhappy.
val NJ af In
The husband attempted to repudiate
the woman among the very people be-
fore whom he had acknowledged the
marriage. The man began running
openly with other girls. The situation
became strained Then came the
tragedy.
What wonder that the victim, going
into dimly lighted store, and seeing
cloaked figure rise before him, and
catching sight of cleaning revolver
as II flashed death toward him, should
Jump at the conclusion that 1t was the
avenging hand Of the woman whom he
had so foully wronged? What wonder
that he should rush from the store and
cry out Grace shot me?"
Is II little less wonder that the OFF,
GERS and public should at once fix the
crime upon the woman who had thus
suffered. She had Justification; she had
endured wrongs that drive women to
desperation and make fiends of saints
But a sober second thought, a little
investigation, and the evidence that at
first
LOOKED so DAMNING.
we're advanced, new clews were fol-
wer eadvanced, new clews were fol-
lowed, additional arrests made. The
girl ia at last free, but her faith has
been wrecked She has set aside her
blind infatuation and row sees, all un-
willingly, that she was the dupe of a
false marriage. She goes back home to
her parents with blighted life, having
given her sirlhood love to one who was
unworthy Of it.