The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
GIVES up BABY.
Continued from Page One.)
TALK WITH MRS. BLEAKLEY.
Little Mother Appears to Be on Verge
of Nervous Collapse.

Little Mother Appears to Be on Verge
of Nervous Collapse.
1t is for the good of Mrs. Bleakley
that the trial promises to come to an
abrupt end. The little wowman who
has been standing up under the strain
for SO long is ready to totter and fall
and according to statement given
State Journal reporter by her doctors
in Kansas City yesterday, another
siege of local trouble over her child
would place her in bad condition
physically. "She has stood the trial
Wonderfully for such a time said one
of the physicians, but I feel now as
though she has come to the end of
her endurance and l can not but tear
the outcome of another ordeal
Mrs. Bleakley looks it too. She IS
staying with her child at the home OF
Clarence Trigg. clerk of the kansas
City Juvenile court in Kansas City, and
when visited by a representative of the
State Journal yesterday she was pare
IL able to smile and keep up her
spirits.
back to Topeka and take my little girl
with me and live and feel safe with
her forever" she said. ST have al
listen to my lawyers and lay aside my
worries, but you see what mas nap
IF Mrs Barclay throws up the
sponge and decides to quit, Will you
feel relieved?" was asked.
"Oh. it seems as thong I will never
be relieved because they have bother
ed me SO much" sighed the p ,I + NJ
assurance that she would lay ASIDE all
claims and not attempt to take Mar
ian away from me-oh, Woulon
be happy and wouldn't I work all the
harder for the child,--and Mrs.
Bleakely's big brown eyes flashed. as
the thought of the peaceful llIe came
over her. Mrs. Bleakley can say
more with her eyes than the average
woman.
AS Mrs Bleaklev was talking her
little girl. Marian. came into the room
and when she spied the reporter sne
lodged back and looked longingiy at
her mother as if TO say-Am safe
with that man around?
But when she was told that there
was no danger she ran to her mother.
climbed ND on her lap and placing her
arms around her neck she whlmpered;
"Oh, mamma. wish, that there was
no one else in the world except you
and me and our friends.
Mrs. Rlea kley said that during the |
last few days the child seems to have
understood the whole trouble and she
frequently asks her mother why SO
many people are talking about her and |
why anyone should want to part them |
= nd when visitor comes to the house |
or the telephone rings she IS -alWays |
anxious to know if it means that some |
one else is coming after her She |
seems to have acquired some of the
suspicious of her mother and reallzes
be that is being made over her.
Mrs. Bleakley has not heard very
much of the sentiment OF the
Topeka people and the many Things
that were being done for her in this
city She was told of the fund that
was being raised for her benefit and
the social that would be held on her
lawn tomorrow night.
Don't you know, feel as though
It will take me hundred years to
thank the people of Topeka for the
things they have done for me. They
have always been so good to me ana
trouble. And the =neWspaperss have
always upheld me through their col
umns I just wish could go to each
and every one and thank them FOR
have also been so good and helpful
and without my neighbor, Mr. stan
ley don't know what we would nave
done. When I think of how many
people have treated me SO klnoE
cannot help but feel encouraged. but
that awful fear of the loss of Marian
just comes over me and makes me so
unhappy. But am trusting that all
will turn out WE'LL
Mrs. Bleakley's sister, Miss Ihomp-
son. is in constant attendance upon the
child and the mother and attends the
courts, confers with the lawyers ana
really assumes diplomatic relations. in
the legal fight. The Kansas Cfty |
LAWYERS stated that it was through
the influence of Miss Thompson that
the governor honored the requislt1on
AS soon as she heard that Mrs. Bar
CLAW had conferred with Acting
Governor Gmelich, she went to JEFF
ferson City at once and gave the other
side of the story.
Miss Thompson, however. is very
modest about her work and she de-
clares that the kilograms from the
Topekans denying the 5
affidavit sent by Attorney McKeever,
is what influenced the governor to de-
eide in favor of the Kansas officers.
The interest in Kansas City over {
the trial is as intense as in Topeka. 1t
Is the main topic of conversation and s
even in the downtown restaurants at /,
lunch hours 1t rivals the baseball {
i'BIooz'' But in the last few days the
sympathy is radically divided be- |
tween Mrs. Bleakley and Mrs Bar
clay. Each has a host of supporters
and even the police found it necessary
to make an arrest yesterday-two
young fellows got into f1stic combat
over the merits of the case.