The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-12-28

without a cent and to fight the battle oi
the world for myself and child, who re-
manned in the hospital until April 3,
1905, when came with her to Join my
sister in Chicago. shortly procured
work here with the Chicago Telephone
company.
In the meantime he was keeping up a
correspondence with me, always telling
ne he would send for me as soon as he
nude his fortune, which was all false
,nd which he had no intention of doing,
IS has been proven by his actions the
asst few days. 1t has been stated, and
know no better way OF expressing it
that he is a worthless "woman CRATER,
holding no government or social posi-
tion whatever in his own con,try nor
ever did. He hasn't cent to his name
and a good proof of this is shown by the
TACT that he hadn't the price to buy an
overcoat, which he acknowledged to me
in letter from San Francisco in his
own hand writing, and which have in
my possession.
lie is a hot tempered man. For in
stance, if the meal was not prepared at
the moment he arrived to partake of it
he would sit down at the table and
throw the dishes on the floor, breaking
them into a thousand pieces. Futhcr-
more, when ! was i'll and my neighbors
brought me in delicacies to eat, if he
could not eat them all he would throw
them on the floor and stamp ON them to
keep me and the children from having
them. This statement | can prove alb
solutely by witnesses, and happened
while we lived in st. Louis, and his last
goodbye was a good slap in the face
that made my mouth bleed, etc, etc.
There are so many things too numer-
GUS to mention.
Concerning the country: it is very
beautiful but have said so much al
ready that have not the time to devote
to description of it. My mother-in-law,
a very poor woman, but certainly good
religious woman and worthy of all the
praise that can be given dutiful
mother is all that any girl could wish
for from motller-in-law.
During all the time that he has been
counting this Mt. Ayr girl, | have been
struggling fora living working five
hours at night in the telephone office
and half the day doing plain sewing,
making a. living but far happier than |
would lie il was living with him, and
in conclusion as have to go to work,
will say that | have plenty of friends
who are standing by me and ready to
vonch for the facts that are stated in
this article and furthermore l have
dozens Of letters in his own hand writ
ing which Willprove many statements
have made. MKS. DORA DE CESpEDES.
LETTER TO MISS SHGlMrllN
The following letter was received by
the Mt. Ayr News, its publication being
requested by Mrs. Kcpley:
"Etinshau, ILL.,, Dec. l:, 1905.
San open iettep from the Et,insham
W. G. 7. U. to Miss Bertha shrimplin,
Mt. Ayr, Iowa.
DEAR YouXG LAnr:-The Ealineham
w. Q. I. y. feel called upon to couyrat-
ulate you upon your escape from the
snare set for you 10y A willy and wicked
adventurer, since they we're the Psoyi-
Dental means whereby he was exposed
and put to flight, and you saved from
his clutches. Your deliverance was as
much Providence as was the escape of
SusanHah from the wites Of wicked men,
and you can thank God, WHO is able and
willing to deliver us, ii we ask it OF
Him. Instead OF mourning and lament
ing rise up, put on your beautiful gar
mcnts, aud with q shining face and
joyful heart give pra Use to your God for
deltvelanee from the snare OF tho
wicked one. No 3 American Young
woman should lament the loss Of a base
and wicked one, ut.should rejoice and
be glad that rescue from q miserable
fate has been happily sent to her.
hakespeare tells of beautiful lady
upon whom a spell was east Sc that she
fell in love with low creature wish
the head OF an ass. This Cespedcs is a
powerful animal, aud he may have east
a hypnotic spell upon you that caused
you to see in his lying face the ideal
you have had of a noble man. Cespedes
wol,for his wife here young girl just
graduated from our high school; her
graduation dress was her wedding robe.
He deceived her with lying tales OF his
vast wealth, and of houses in his own
country and in Spain, and then left her
to earn her own bread. She bore him
two beautiful children, bnt he cast her
off, and to make excuses for his attempt
to deceive and abuse her he lied, and
gave the mother OF his children the
vilest name that can be bestowed upon
woman. He lied about his church
when he said that in the Catholic church
separation constitutes divorce any
Catholic priest can tell you that. If he
were Catholic, as he said he was, he
knew that his church declares openly
that all marriages contracted without
the sanction of the church are consider
ed adulterous, and it he were Catholic
he knew that the church does not c0un-
tenance such marriages at all. He un-
dou5tedly did not consider himself
bound to the woman he married, nor
would he have considered himself bound
to you after he had plucked you Of your
means, and you then would have shared
the fate of the lady he married here.
The young woman he married was left
.an orphan, and was a ward Of the great
order of Odd Fellows for years. Her
name has never had smirch except the
one put upon it by Cespedes, whose
lawful wife she is.