The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-16
REJO|CED OVER
VERDICT AS SHE
TOLD Of STRAIN
MRS. HARTJE TELLS or WEARY
MONTHS BUT EXPECTS
NOTHING.
HER REAL CHRISTMAS
Happy Now In the Possession Of Her
Children, She ic Very Grateful
For the Sympathy Of the
Public.


Pittsburg, Pa, Dec l5.-'I waaiet
to forget II. Oh! how | tried to thint
of everything but this horrible af
fair! Once | thought should 90 in
sane. Waking and sleeping thought
of nothing else. Then | determine
to forget ito forget ito get Q
few moments peace before The strain
of hearing the yerd Ct It was hard
SO hard but conquered compell
ed myself to think of other things
That saved my reasou."
Her lips quiyeri-g z, Mrs. Mary Scott
| Harje said this as she sat with her
father in the cffice Of her attorney.
John II Freeman, and received his
| formal congratulations on the result
of the suit instituted by her husband.
Augustus M. Hartje. Except for the
almost weeping respondent herself
perhaps no other person In the room
knew just bow much she had gone
through as did her stol,d attorney
who had made such a brilliant fight
against great odds for her fair name
and for the honor of her two pretty
childre.
Sheds Happy Tears.
There was a suspicion Of happy
tears in the voice and in the face
OF the woman, while all through these
dreary days In court she had been
adamant when some of the most cruel
accusations that could be made we're
hurled agains her by lawyers and wit
ncGso.,
In the time nf stress she had been
81 rQ,las as Women usually are fisi
IN ne momentum Victory she was III
most ready to cye way Yet she had
herself in hand. She showed herself
the mother of that boy who. when he
ana his little sister were insuIted on
the way home from school during the |
trial. fought for sis and refused
10 take it seriously before
nor.
mad hoped all along that The de-
'sion would be In my favor and vet
although everybody seemed to be- in
with me, | tried TO think
itbe whcle terrible affair as little as
oSs. DIe. wanted 10 forget H."
Real Christmas For Her
There came sort of mechanically
mile here as if it showed that. try as
I
nc might, The almost martyred wo.
ian had found little time in which TO '
pt these tragic memories away from
er
III VIII be areal Christmas for MS
I'D the mother Evidently by "us"
as meant herself. her son. "Sccttv."
ld sweet gentle. little Mary Louise
ne decision will make us. OH co
ippy During the six weeks the chill. "
'en and myself we're in California pI
led to &c the children to enjoy them. pc
Ives. for they hare been surely tried in
o.
81 oa,no, H., pl
} gained six pounds while was h,
'ay' she added with a laugh. "It ~.
rs my first trip to California. and
una a great deal of pleasure in n =
pecially In the vivid contrasts Of eli. III
'te. Within days Journey there III
re summer valleys and snow-cap. III
d hills-a good deal as life Is with
my OF us.
Grateful for Sympathy.
I am oh. so grateful TO the prose
The public! she exclaimed. do
know what would have done with.
the public sympathy"
was a different looking woman BY
sat In Attorney Freemans office u
N The one Ehose face had been
died In the hot. crowded court
m on that blazing hot July day =
months ago She showed almost
pure abandon of a light-hearted J.
II was The rejection Of pure Ger
poll
lwayf ~ attractive woman n met
ned that Mrs Harie had got back the
iomo mytT'Ous tiucture. her v0uih Han
~. Her checks were sglow with siv'
tints r. perfect health. although II
icmcnt over the outcome might trad
added 10 The heightened color. Pan
is unlniahly ha7dsome. from Of
Ian's point ri view. and. withaI a plsc
AMY woman. llcr ioyOusncss ule
infectious. City
" Have Nc Home" and
ked about her plans fer the fu- -
sbo replied: the
on know ] have no home ihrO
2 was thinking Of that other my
= with its plea ant associations guar
g bsbyhood Of the two little chill fact,
but she did not say 50. Turn have
quickly she gave a loving look to ca
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