The sun., 1904-11-11
NY own IDASUES HENRY CLAY,
r1o Won HIS MIDDLE AGED
WAyTO HER GIRLISH HEART,
Altar n Three Years Engagement.
""' punctuated with Love Letters Owned
Up, as she Says. There Was Mrs, Mrs. Henry s.r'
Iiay AIready-sued That Very Day

pnoctuated With Love Letters O"heu
I'm a. she says, There Was Mrs. Henry
,i,y Already-sued That Very Day
,svmphony in brown. Miss Idalin Came
ran HAYES. 27 years old, told Justice oco.'
and s Jury in the Supreme Court yesterday
whv sh4, thought that Henry Clay sayers'
. sneotacled, scantily whiskered ana stoop-
;,n civil war veteran, who owns up 10 %
rasr. and a wife and grown up fa1niiy'
sbond pa her $4,000 for breach OF promise
- marriage. Although her testimony was
oiearlv audible the length OF the room' ne
u.,inkl ,d his brows and made ear trumpets
- HE hands in an effort to catch her every
word. uo.
,u,o pa. where he was manager OF the
oountv fair, and she demonstrator LOT the
Tas, India Tea Company, with booth on
,ho fair Grounds. He gazed on her, tasted
hor fragrant tea, and, she says, presently
proposed marriage
sovsrs ia a prominent citizen OF Waynes-
burg, with large farm interests there and
.l.ewhcre. He travelled around the couh-
~ with Miss Hayes. and together t4fy
visited Washington, Toronto Niagara
Falls and other notable places besides
taking long driving trips through Penn
.Vlvania and West Virginia. After three
wears OF it. she says, he owned up as they
,rore about to leave New York for Pitts
bure in 1901 20 get married, that there was
Mrs. Henry Clay Sayers already. she
ven, over the packed trunks that held
her wedding finery and told her troubles
n LAWYER. The very afternoon that he
had made his avowal, Sayers was served
Inv a girl friend Of Miss Hayes with the
summon in her action.
Such. in narrative form, Is her story
rolated on the witness stand. Her lawyer
was armed with a big bundle OF letters
,hat she had received from Sayers. some
n tbese were addressed to her in the con-
yentional way; others bore the simple IN
scription y. c. Hayes, Youngstown, ONO.
That, as she blushingly explained, was
because she was living there with her
brother -in-law. a doctor, and he was very
curious. While she was in Ohio she went
10 finishing school, Sayers paying part
Of the expense. He wanted her she said,
fully equipped to fill the position in society
that would be hers as Mrs. Sayers.
The veterans letters we're full OF love
and farm news and dental advice. Her
teeth were troublesome and she soothed
the pain with cocaine applications. he
wrote:
NV dear girl. don't use any more of that
cocaine. 1t might kill you. and what would
] do for my own Ida then, the Ida want 10
make my own?"
Again he scribbled
Last night sighed for thee, dear lda-l
cried for thee. ! only wish you were my
own-don't you, dear sweet girl?"
other epistles referred to his crops, his
cattle, his fine peas and spring chickens.
lie reminded her of their black berrying
walks and told her that he would always be
true. would never forsake her. Nothing
hut death will ever sever US, he assured
her 1T will not he my fault II we ever
sever, and know you will never give nN9
He sent her Bible and urged her to
read it. oh. my own sweet Ida. he
sighed. Il think and think and think.
long for the time when we will never be
separated . You are beautiful, my
own, and love you and am trying all L
can to give you music and improve YOU
my dear. sweat girl Think OF the time
that il coming when we will be the happiest
mortaIs on earth and people will envy us
our happiness and our position
Their engagement, which was contracted,
as Miss Hayes testified. in the spring OF isas
was dark secret He was not grizzled
then she says, nor did his bald head gleam
hairs that were brushed over it, Though
it is but seven years ago. his hair and mus
tache were brown then, and she thought
him lovely" Their ages made NJ d!her-
ence to her. and when her mother and sister
at their home in Allegheny. Pa .remon-
strated with her for going with an old man
she took umbrage directly and, by his
advice left home and Set out TO brave the
world. She never let her family know iha'
she had promised to be Sayers's wre unu
after the pre- 'ent SUIT had been peguh' III.
On hi, side he urged secrecy also MS
father he told her. was rich but old iash
ioned New Englander, who would likel!
csinherit him II he learned OF the boys
intention to marry 'such slip OF girl
and as he counted on getting 250,OoO o.
20 from the old man. he warned her tt
preserve implicit silence concerning thei
relations. TO this end he supplied hel
with printed envelopes for her letters u
~. womans hand, he. said, wonlt
excite suspicion IL found in his mail by hi
inquisitive relatives,
But. through it all. she said, he Away
behaved toward her with the utmost pro
priety save on one occasion when sh'
came near breaking oil the engageme
hut forgave him. In town they stoppe'
at different hotels rather than have peopl
talk In New York she studied for tn
stage. first against his will and atterwar'
with his approval.
Once in his letters he sent her copy O
verses that he'd struck his middle age
fancy.
The day that's gone can never come again
Though Il be filled with sunshine or regret.
The hope that's fed the roses that are dead
Can only mutcly ask II We forget.
So think sweetheart. before you bid us part
OF all the future holds OF 10Y or pain -
The SaddeSt fate Is that which comes 100 lhle-
Tue day that's gone can never come again
Old Savers WINGED visibly while thl
and other samples of his feelings were rea'
10 the snickering jury.
When the plaintif's examination was con
rluded Mrs. Margaret Hayes, her mother
,ook the stand. A typical prim old Ne1
England LADY. arrayei in her best blnc
silk gown and mittens. she testified tina
che had her objections to Ssyers as
sultor, and had so expressed herself Z
her daughter. with the result that IA lef
home. She was anxious to tell what he
objections (pursly personal. she explained
s:tually were. out the Court would not allo,
her. But she did get in the edge Of th'
blade by telling Of Sayers's first visit q
see Ida
My little grsndchild. said Mrs Hayes
came ont 20 me ir the kitchen and sh
seys.
Grandma, il that Aunt Ida's beau?
Yes. answered. just short, like that,
] like him. says the little one back.
don't. then said /. for think he
old enough to be 3 grandfather
And then that young one ran in TO hin
and asked him right out:
Re you a grandpa, too, mister?'
A. which be was oil fustered, TO be sun