The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-12
BROKEN PROMISES.
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Fortesque to keep away from the
house, neither Mrs. Taggart nor her
guests would speak to me when we
met at the table. Mrs. Taggart was
a great deal in the society of Mrs
Poore, wife of Captain Benjamin
Poore- Fortesque often met my wife
at the PORES. 1 FORBADE her to go
/ there to meet Fortesque and she
promised me she should not go there
any more. The next day Captain
Poore telephoned over to my house
and asked Mrs Taggart and myself
over refused to go. Mrs Taggart
insisted on making the call and L
walked with her part of the way until
we We're in sight of the home of Cap
tain Poore. I saw. that Lieut.. For
house. 1 said to Mrs. Taggart:
Grace, if you persist in going there
to see that man, your conduct is simply
rotten
PORES that night. Mr.. and Mrs.
Poore returned home with Mrs. Tag
CART l was upstairs and refused to
go down at Mrs. Taggart's call.
Finally she came up and begged of
me to come down and prevent
scene. I consented to do this on con-
dition that after that night she would
show the Poores the door for good
and all and would agree to see Lieut..
Fortesque no more. She consented to
in the parlor until the captain and his
wife went home. After they had gone
said to Mrs. Taggart that was glad
that we were through with those peo-
pie. She said she was also glad.
Back to the Poores Again.
1.-The very next night Mrs. Taggart
again went to the house of Captain and
Mrs. Poore. I demonstrated with her
in vain. l knew Fortesque was there.
Mrs. Taggart came home that night at
fnln I frN.-1 n o11
she came and asked her where she
had been. Our conversation occurred
upstairs, as Mrs. Taggart had entered
| in company with Captain Poore, who
went into the dining room. Captain
Poore called me to come down and get
| him a drink. l did not go down. Mrs.
Taggart left me and went back down
stairs. where 1 heard her in converse
| ton with Captain Poore. After he
| left 1 went down.
II asked Mrs. Taggart if she had
been with Fortesque that night. She
said that she would not discuss whom
she had been with. / then told her
that before she could go upstairs she
must tell me whom she had been with.
Mrs. Taggart started to run up the
stairs, and grabbed her by her skirts,
pulling two of them Off I took her by
the arms and drew her down stairs
! again and told her that we must come
| to some understanding. She finally
| admitted that ForteSque was with her
Ut lHS HO1IlS Oh &dpldlI IOOIS we
went upstairs together, and Mrs.
Taggart prepared to retire. When she
was in bed / went into the room and
| sat down on the side of her bed. I
said, Grace, do you know that you
are making me a very unhappy man
You are making my house the resort
for every young loafer who wants to
come here and get drink at my ex-
pense-'
His Home Life Uncomfortable.
i
| getting uncomfortable and that some
thing would have to happen pretty
soon. 1 had been in a tropical climate
for about four years and at the time
nearly nervous wreck I had antici-
pated my home to be a place where I
| could get acquainted with my children,
but told Mrs. Taggart that night that
it was getting to be about as near a
hell as anything on earth could be.
Mrs. Taggart was lying in bed and our
little boy, Culver, was lying beside her
when this conversation was taking
place. He also interposed and said:
| Mother, why don't you give up Lieu
tenant Fortescue as father wants you
| to do p At this Mrs. Taggart said that
she would have nothing to do with
Fortescue. I knew that her promise
as good as broken and that she would
be with Fortescue at her next oppor-
tunity.
During our talk I held my wife's
hands in mine. She sought to release
them and my arm was drawn across
her face with some force. Mrs. Tag
CART said: There you have hurt my
nose 1 think my arm did injure her
nose, but 1 did not strike her.
Did you strike your wife at all that
night?" asked his attorney. Yes, re-
member that 1 slapped her with my OPP
en- hand before We came upstairs. II
was after I had done this that she ad-
mitted she had been with Fortescue."
dnaI Of irtfIn
drunk at my house." said Captain Tag
CART, in answer to a question as to his
own sobriety. 81 drank very little my
self, but 1 furnished the free drinks foI
a good many other officers. During q
period of 100 days, l bought so quarts
of whisky for the use of the family ano
guests who called One party that Mrs
Taggart gave, cost me $780, The punch
used at this party amounted to 40 gal
lons"
Bought Her $4,000 Worth of Furs.
/ Captain Taggart often asserted tha
he had always worshipped his wife ant
i children During a stay in China, HI
said. he bought her $4,000 worth of fur:
and house ornaments.
I'VE always had whatever want
ed said Captain Taggart. 1T was m.
habit to buy Mrs. Taggart a diamond
ring on every return of our wedding an
niversary. l continued this until sh
had SO many rings that she requested
me to stop buying that kind of pres
ents''
The witness was asked to give the de
tails of his arrest at Fort Leavenworth
He said: Il was out on the rife rang
when 1 received an order to report a
the headquarters of Colonel Miner.
Immediately obeyed the order and foun'
that several officers were in waiting a
the quarters among whom were Captain
Poore and Colonel Hoff. was told b
Colonel Miner that 1 was charged wit
cruelty toward my wife and that sh
had made statement that she wa
afraid to live in the same house wit
.. me. I was asked if 1 had any state
. ment to make and told Colonel Mine
that 1 had a statement for his ear
alone Colonel Miner said | would hav