The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-10
WOMEN WOULD
MARRY CONVICT
Study of the AbnOrmaiiiy of
Women Presented in
Colorado.
MAN WANTS WIDOW FOR Wife
Letters to Prison Association Show
Many Girls Are Willing to
Take Il Chance.


DENVER, Colo, Sept. "a Pc
cuiar psychological study of the ah-
normality of women is presented in
the letters which are pouring in to
Secretary W. T.. Collett of the Colo
RADIO Prison association from women
who are anxious to link their fate
has been assisted by the association
and who has now established himself
on farm and wishes to secure II
wife. He wrote to Secretary Collett
asking him to assist him in securing
a wife, who, he specified must be a
widow, not over %, and with or
without children. Considering the
fact that this man served time for II
brutal attack on IA woman, the case
is even more peculiar.
The story was printed in a Den
yer newspaper at the time the letter
was received, and as result Collett
daily receives letters from women
asking to be put in communication
with the Oklahoma convict Some
of these letters are evidently from
women of refinement. One is from
a woman physician, while others are
extremely illiterate. They are all of
such psychological interest that Dr.
Charles Philips of the state university
has asked to be allowed to study
them with the plan of considering
them from this viewpoint Mr. Col
lett will have Photographic repro
ductions made of parts of some OF
them for use in his stereopticon lee
lures, with view of showing that
| abnormality is not confined within
the walls of penal institutions.
Here are excerpts from some of the
| letters:
One woman, who lives i'm Denver.
says she is Il 'middle-aged widow
and confidentially writes that she
could keep it from the public" She
would not be afraid to marry Il
convict She is keeping house for
a widower here, but says the alti-
tude is too heigh." II am a fine
housekeeper, good cook, a good
Christian woman, and a Maccabee in
good standing, and If there is ans
a man to live right / can am not
handsome, but am a good woman.
and If your man is all right Just put
me in communication with him ard
will do the rest"
A Kentucky woman writes in be-
half of a friend who is nice young
woman, who would like to go west. ;"
The possession of few thousands,
an al 10 al,
the piano are listed as assets. If tie
ex-convict isn't already married this
woman would like to see her friend
get chance at the prize
A little Illinois widow, 20 years
old, enrolls as Il candidate She
thinks she would suit him, is DoCr
but honest, loves farm life and ii
she could find a good husband
would be happy
'As to an eX-conyict," she writes.
Il have no objections, for there has
been many a true heart that has befg
under stripes
A st. Louis woman labors under
the delusion that Secretary Collett
himself is wife-hunting, and offers
herself to him unreseryedly, provid-
ed he is not snapped up before II 2
letter reaches him.
A protest is entered against the
preference given widows by woman
of 80, who writes from Oklahoma:
Really, | do think it is too bad to
put bunch of widows in before girls.
am sorry to say | think this young
man is much mistaken in his idea,
as | think you will find some girls
who would be Just as conSiderate as
widow. Don't think am jealous
but | am sorry to think we girls
cant be trusted.
The wall of a weary soul comes
from little town in southern Kan
sas. She is Il woman physician 3
years old, who feels she has made
failure of her life and is willing to
gamble on future chances. She has
no objections to a convict. for she
feels that "a person who has sinned
and truly repented is more worthy
of trust than one who has never been
! tempted" She explains her lack of
success on the ground that she is not
able to live the life OF hypocrisy and
deceit of the successful unmarried
person
Il am alone, hundreds OF miles
| from home and practically without
funds | have unaided climbed life's
ladder, rung by rung, until | earned
for myself a profession by which
| ought to command a good income
but cant, because | cannot lie to Il
patient and do not get on socially
with the swell set | have no faith
in the loyalty of the business man
of today and have proved to myself
that prpfessional men, especially doe
tors, are, in 80 cases out of every
| 100, not fit for a decent woman to
marry | am tired out and disgusted
with the dishonesty around me and
the complete lack Of principle. |
want to have a home founded on
respect where | will not have to
work too hard, for | am tired Where
| can live a simple. clean, pure life.
| would not take such risk We're
it not for the fact that ] am disgust
| ed, absolutely, with the immortality
around me and the dread that |
may not always be 50 placed that l
can defend myself.