The San Francisco call., 1909-09-01


Lampe's diary ofsdivorce
when first met him doctor
I.amRes., if he lost his temper or if
did MOI happen 10 wish 20 Eo just
where heA did he would strike me, and
rs had heard of men being so in love
and so jesgous I allowed myself TO he
aattered byAit. and, siace have never
been struck by n man before, believed
had at Iasttnet the ideal lover"
The detailssof the turbulent married
life oflwalte~ Alvin Lampe. beauty doc
tor. and his wife, Mrs. Jessie Fowler
Lampe, were made public yesterday
lsy thes3voman. wffotis now held. at the
city prison while he esrhusband lies in a
dying condition at St. Thomas hospital,
according 10 DR. J. F. PressFey. suffer
ing from a. revolver shot wound in
hicted by the wife.
TIE story Us contained in a. curious
narrative prepared by the woman for
use by her attorney. Judge John r. Ait
ken. at a time when she contemplated
divorce proceedings The strangest
part Of the story is that In which Mrs
Tampe naively admits that she was
wooed yblosSs and because Tempe
struck her she believed he loved her
FLATTERY OF FIST COMMON
This hattery o fthe fist was COM
mon practice o.. Tempe. according to
The woman. before they married He
varied il by threatening TO kill him
self. sne wrote.
Mrs Lampe's narrative. was given to
The Call yesterday afternoon. after she
had given an interview on the subject
Of her marHal unhappiness. Mrs.
Lampe's tale is substantateds BY her
frien dand coR1idant. Mrs. Grace How
ard Of the Hotel GlOuster, 312 Mason
street, and by her attorney, Judge Ait
ken.
Naturally DR.. Lampe's mother denied
the story. that her son was cruel to
Mrs J.ampe and in fact declared yes
terday that the wife was particularly
brutal TO Lampe. mistreating him in
every wsv MIS-. Lampe solemnIy de-
clared oher belief that her sons wife
had deliberately planned TO kill him.
and that the shooting in the room at
the Holland hotel Sunday afternoon
was q coolly planned attempt at muir
der. The elder Mrs. Lalnpe exhibited
her sons notes on divorce prepared
for lis lawyer, in which are memoir
snda of alleged -cruelties committed on
him by his wife
WIFE.S BOOK ON CRUELTY
But the wife's book on conjugal rue
tion is the more complete. 1t contained
MANY sordid suggestions of intrigues
which she imputed 10 her husband,
the beauty doctor
Il is Of Mrs. Lampe thai the Span
ish proverb. A woman, dog and a
walnut tree. the more you beat them
the better they be-, might have been
written For she wrote with un-
doubted sincerity:
When I first met him CDR. Lampe)
If he lost his temper or I did not hap
pen to wish TO go just where he did.
ne would strike me. andtas l had heard
N men being Sc in love- and so jealous
allowed myself to be .hattered by it,
nd since I had never been struck by a
man before believed I had at last met
the ideal lover and offered no resist
ance until it became so frequent as to
lose its novelty Then became
frightened and ran away. My fists are
of no use TO me during those attacks
and j have no means OF defending my
self excepting. BY reaching out and
scratching himg
THREE FIGHT OVER KEY
In her diary .ofdm fortunes Mrs. Lampe
seemed to write very simply, but under
the stress of her miSa adventures melo-
drama cropped Up. A large part of her
narrative was devoted to reco ounting q
fierce struggle which she had with her
husband and his mother After a scene
~ domestic complications, Mrs. Lampe
the younger, wanted TO. quit the older
woman's house and took a key to the
basement where she went TO. pack heI
trunk When she came upstairs the
KEY could not be found and a crue
fgllt ensued, according to- the wife, fl
which she was attacked by her hus-
band and scratched by his mother unit
size bled freely. Her situation seemed
desperate.
The key was found later by Lamps
ia his pocket. he pulled it out. The
narrative related0
He said, That's funny
Il said, How can you say that il
funny2 Look at my poor bleeding
hands and trembling. nervous, paineC
body: locked in here, the victim Of two
wicked, vicious, insane people,, whC
never dreamed Of all this, and I never
would have come alone.
Il began to cry and cried for tive
hours. I was hysterical and broker
hearted, and as 1 pulled myself to-
gether j said, Let me out.
He said, No. You viii not leave
me nor this house tonight.
He had all the doors locked weni
10 the windows. looking and hoping
TO see q familiar face, and my bleeding
hands stained the windows.
I.ampe used TO threaten to take hi
life Mrs. Iampe wrote
He had his life insured for me, bu
] asked him to have II transferred [,
his mother, as they would say on ever,
occasion that / wanted him TO die 8,
could get the money. He bought 8
big bottle OF poison and wanted M,
Ia take half OF It."
Several times. she says he tried Il
drin kpOison. but she would knock the
glass from his hand with a tambourine
Dr.. b. l. Fowler. also a dermatoIo
gisl and a brother Of Mrs. Lampe. sait
Yesterday that the trouble which le,
fo the shooting Of Lampe was starte,
when the husband discovered in hi
wifes trunk a photograph OF T. C. Sur
ney her first husband and becam
jealous of the man. who is a theatrica
man OF Eugene, Ore
Fowler said he gave his sister tn,
photograph He biames the mother il
law for the family trouble. primarily
lie does not take seriously the not,
said 10 have ben found by Mrs. Lampi
The elder in her sons pocket The not.
said. TO whom It may concern. NJ,
wife has just informed me that she in.
tends TO take my life tonight. so if m.
body is found il VIII be known that
have been murdered by her hands. DR.
" A. Lampe, room So Holland"
Mrs. Jessie Lampe said the lettel
was written in lest