The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-14
LOVE STORY.
1t Crops Out in the Smith Di-
VOrce Case.

The divorce suit of Mary L. Smith
against Winfield Scott Smith has DC
cupied two days in the district court
and the end is not yet The evidence
on behalf of Mrs. Smith is not COM
pleted and Judge Hazen is still hearing
letters of love and affection read that
can discount The Love Letters of an
English Woman
A. H. Heustis, an attorney from
Guthrie, Ok, was one of the legal adj
visers of Mrs. Smith and when he read
in court the love letters Mrs. Smith
claimed that Mr.. Smith received from
a young lady who signed her name
STELLA he held the entire attention
of the court and the crowd assembled.
Mrs. Smith testified that Mr.. Smith
made the mistake of putting the bum
die of love letters in her desk for safe
keeping and that she did not know for
some time what they were. Later she
discovered them.
Stella" wrote notes from her home
in Guthrie and letters from Richmond,
Indiana, where she was attending col
1ege. The letters We're full of phrases
in which The bright silvery moon.
''sweet self" '1ifes joy you my all
in ALL" figured very often.
Stella" wrote that she was studying
Carlyle, Emerson, Shelly, Riley and
Mrs. Browning, but her letter sounded
as if she was a student of Ella Wheeler
wilcox. In one letter she said Il want
to see you and love you in the same old
way" and then on the next page of
the letter asked isn't this the year
when we are to go to the Paris expo
sition?"
"Stella" also announced that she in
tended to study Byron. She wrote that
che was usually of a cold and chilly
nature, but that she could soar into
realms of romance" and then inno-
Gently asked, why not send the rlng?'
She seemed to be trying to make her
correspondent jealous by writing that
her teacher Of elocution in the college
was a handsome man with a wonderful
physique. She wrote he has pair OF
lungs that would fill any amphitheater
in the world" They seemed to be
pretty large lungs, and the statement
was too much for the court. and even
BailiR John Coyne laughed aloud.
Mr.. HeuStiS, very large and pOrtly,
with a fat, smOOth-shaVen face and a
Very bald head, read the love letters in
dramatic manner. When he came to
such passages as Ito see you in one
long, sweet. gladstone visit that shall
last till DEATH" he spoke very clearly.
tenderly. low and slowly, and he put
as much devotion into the words as
an actor Woolng in play could pro-
duce. To flelO the effect. Mr.. Heustis
blushed like a schoolgirl. even on the
bald SCOT on his head.
letter from a woman who said she,
s'Stella, when she became converted
she would be a second Deborah to judge
and Judges Then stella" commentsd
by saying L think So too--nit" She an
nOunCed rnaC she was studying the BLDG
Therefore, she ought to know. She
wished it understood that there were 9TH
er men but that the other fellows are
only pebbles on the beach,
When the letters of Mrs. Smith, writ
ten during. her courtship with Mr.. Smith,
after her first husband died, were offered
in evidence Judge Hazen declined to hear
them. They We're written black boz
dereds paper. Mr.. Smiths attorneys tried
to get Mrs. Smith to admit that She had
written in the letters that she wanted to
give a gold medal to the man VINO had
introduced her to Mr.. Smith, but the let
ter was not read
When a big bunch of notes that Mrs
Smith had written to MIR. Smith after
their marriage was offered Judge
Hazen declined to hear them. He thought
he had heard enough of that sort of tes
fimOny.
Mrs Smith was asked if she was not
Jealous of her husband. She adnitie1
She was and said she had reason to be
She was asked if she had not charged
him with paying too much attention to a
dozen or so women. She admitted a few
instances, but not all
Mr.. Barker. brother-in-law of Mrs
Smith, testified that Mr.. Smith charged
him with stealing eggs and struck him
and that he flew into a rage when Mrs
Smith declined to sing because she Gid
not feel well