Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-12-12
WHO is CHARLES BRANDON2
Sad Story of an Abilene Girl Left
in Denver.


tains this story. Who is the girl
and who is Charles Brandon Tor Ayres)
her worthless husoandp
An unsophisticated country girl
who had never seen town larger than
Abilene, Kas., until she came to Dem
yer last April, told a Pitifol tale OF
mans heartlessness in a cherries
room at 274O Larimer street this
morning. She is Mrs. Charles Bran
don. Brandon, who has deserted her,
Isl waiter, and she says he has an
other wife living in Beloit, Kas. ne
also goes under the name Of A. 5.
Ayres, his step-father'e name.
AS she talked a 7-months baby,
whose coming into the world has
caused her such great trouble, cooed
and laughed and played on the floor
as innocently happy as child OF for
tune, unconscious Of the misery OF Its
environment; little bedding the fact
that its mother was mot certain now
their next meal would be provided
The mothers story Is not an unus-
al one. Born and brought up on a
little farm twenty miles from Abilene
she grew to be IS, knowing little OF
the world. Charley Brandon was her
first lover. He was brought up on a
neighboring farm. "0nce he drove
seventeen miles through an w.ul rain
lust to see me- she said, with touch
ing pride.
It was the courtship Of farmers
boy and an orphan girl, and lasted a
couple Of years before they were mar
ried. But the boy was not entirely
unsophisticated; he had worked in a
store in Abilene and also in Beloit.
Last February she came to Denver.
He followed and for acouple Of months
they were happy. Then city life be-
gan to spoil Brandon. He got to
drinking and found some fast COM
panions Of his own age. He grew
tired Of the country girl wife. He
first started to work in grading out
fit, but finally became Larimer
street waiter.
She says he abused her and the
baby and nearly let them starve'
Once she had only 10 cents to live on
for three days. She walked the
streets trying to find him and saw him
through the windows Of a restaurant
sitting with couple Of what seemed
to her well-dressed girls, buying
drinks.
A few weeks ago he packed his
trunk and left. He took the photo
graph she had Of him. She said last
night that she had to beg and plead
with him before he finally consented
to let her keep it.
When asked to show 1t she took 1t
tenderly from table drawer where
she had it all wrapped in tissue paper
as II it was the most precious OF oil
her possessions.
Mrs. Brandon is comely girl ap-
parently with no notion Of the wick
edness and cruelty Of the world Yes
terday, because she had no money
with which to buy food and because
the other people in the rooming house
urged her, using every argument they
could, she went to the district attor-
ney and asked him II he could not
make Brandon give her IS or "a a
week to live upon until the baby got
old enough so she could work With
the greatest reluctance she finally
signed warrant for his arrest for
non-support.
This morning she asked; Don't
you suppose he will come back and
love me again when the officers tell
him he has got to support meP The
baby is getting so cute he can't helpI
loving it. 1t laughs most all the
time and hardly ever cried"
In his last conversation with her
Brandon advised her to hustle for her
self and earn her living the easiest
way she could