The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-06

| time ana happy one l am sorry you
did not have a good time Christmas, but
! perhaps you have a better time next
time, on next Christmas. / did not have
any time but had all the time / thought
! l would have. We worked all day and it
was just the same as any other day to me.
! Out here this is a wild country out here,
| but / am well and happy out here and
! getting along fine | hope you are the
! same way in Wichita. i like TO see peo-
pie happy and ! hope you are.
We have too much work TO do out here
and | can't get away, but / am going to
Wichita just as soon as ] can. | would
like to be there for your birthday if 1
could, bbut l know l can't get there. 1
| hope you have good time and pplenty
of fun and if / was there you and l would
take walk and have some fun l know
you and 1 would not be so bashful as
We Were the first time we met, would We?
But we would have a better time. | know.
Wei, Dodie. ! don't know what else to
write you now and so l will close for this
time. wishing you a happy New Year,
bidding you a kind goodbye for this time,
hoping to hear from you soon. AS ever
your friend. Goodbye. Write soon.
H.GIBBONS.
Goodbye
10000 900. 900, Cox, O00, 600, 900 kisses
Tecumseh, y. NJ
Mr. Gibbons returned from New Mexico
on May l, 193," continued the witness. 1T
was about four o'clock in the afternoon.
l was so glad to see him that l kissed
him. This was the first time 1 ever kiss
IL. ~,
told me that he was as glad to see me as
| was to see him and he said that if things
had been different it would havve been
little wife instead of his girl that he had
returned to.
On May second, 1903 the next day, she
alleges that he asked her to marry him
and she accepted him and she said that
while they were out walking that evening
he gave her ring that he had been wear
ing. The ring was produced and given in
evidence 1t is a plain gold ring set with
some emeraldS.
She stated that he promised her he
would go into the wholesale business and
that they would move TO Topeka where he
had property
The last letter that the defendant wrote
1903, just prior to the filing of the suit
She had written to him and asked him
what he intended to do and he sent her
the foSowng letter, which made her
decide to bring suit:
Wichita, Kan, Dec. 10. 1903
"Dodie: l am surprised at you for
asking, for l told you some time ago
that had quit and 1 told you L meant
it, and l don't see why you ask. 1 can't
forget those letters you wrote me and
there is no use to try it. for you know
ii is all your fault for doing so. And L
told you lots of times that l never meant
to marry anybody and l don't see why
you don't take a tumble and look up
somebody that would make you good
home as / told you. l tried to treat you
like a lady in all respects and / hope you
will treat me like a gentleman, as l try
to be. 1 will send your stuff to you just
as soon as l get back, and you can keep
what / gave you.
Hoping you won't bother me any
more. H. u.
Miss Woolleys testimony was not COM
pleted until the afternoon session. about
go o'clock
Jaw Sweet, the cousin. was then called
and he told of his introduction of Glib
bons to Miss Woolley over four years
ago.
Mrs. Tobias. another cousin. gave evil
dence concerning Miss Woolley's broken
health and of how she had worried over
the defendants neglecting to fulfill ms
promise of marriage with her.
The attorneys for the plaintiff con-
Of in their
favor the bill of sale to the drug store
which Gibbons made to Lease in March,
1904. after the case had been filed
About o'clock the defense introduced
its first witness. Mr.. Gibbons, the de-
PENDANT.
He stated that he met Miss Wooliey
five years go at the home of her cousin
on St Francis avenue: that he was AT
that time in the employ of the Rock
Island Bridge and Building department
and was working through New Mexico
Kansas Texas. Oklahoma and missouri.
He stated that Jay Sweet introduced MN
10 Miss Woollcy and that he was only
there long enough to say a Few words
AMI get a drink of water
The next time | saw Miss Woolley,
said tho witness. was after had sent a
note asking if | could call, and she gave
mo neru1ission. | took her out riding.
and the next day we went walking, and 1 /
bs,-e never at any time promised to
marry her.
u went back to Mexico in May, lste 1
ana she commenced writing 70 me. She
wrote two or three letters to my one
Il never had any conversation with her
regarding our marriage. and l never SAID /
that we would live in Topeka or any /
whore that remember Of l did not know J
that she expected me to marry her until /
7 received notice that I had been sued for /
breach Of promise
while | was in Mexico l received 4 +
letter from her in which she said she I
would never marry and would rather be !
single"
The letter was then introduced and in /
part was as follows:
Wichita. Kansas. oct. Il. 1872
Dear Friend
thought I would write you once again !
| never thought you would break /
pron,ise YOU made look every day for /
! letter from you. have studied the 4
matter over and l think like you. that 1
one is Better of single. There is too
,n,ch ,nhappiness in marriage and +
nrefer 70 remain as I am ! am sorry 4
that l wrote you the few letters that
aid. blush with shame whenever 1 4
think OF them. and would give anything i
on earth If l had never written them 1
but l was nearly wild when l did. Please /
do not be angry with me for writing them l
and 1 promise never 70 10 50 again l 1
am back al Mrs. McDonnalds again She ]
gives me Se5o per week and she hires The /