Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-01

intimate relations with Mrs. Green,
but denied there were any grounds for
such an accusation.
Leslie e. Clauson, with whom Green
was in business, and his attorney, M.
NJ. Myers, called at central police
headquarters and conferred with the
prisoner several times after the shoot
ing but refused to make any state
ment concerning Green's motive in
shooting Sk1dmore. Green, when seen
in the jail. was reticent regarding the
circumstances OF the tragedy and re-
ferred his interviewers to his attorneys.
MRS. GREEN NEAR COLLAPSE
After leaving the city police station
Mrs. Green and her daughter returned
to their home Mrs. Green was near
was persuaded to make statement.
but is was very brief She said;
"All I have to cay Is that I agreo In
every way with the statement made
by my husband. His statement is
my statement.
II feel, and my attorney assures me,
that Mr.. Skidmore's statement that
my husband was justified in his act,
will make everything come out all
right In the end. For further infor-
nation you will have to see my at
SoLnSy' - IA S1auSohs III Cne Story
The farewell letter found when Skid
more's enects were collected is a re-
markable one In many respects. It fol-
lows:
Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 20.
Wife OF My Love and Love of MY
Life: Do you see that have called
you my only wife In that2 If not,
look again. Well, as / expect at
noon when he repeated. 'I will wait
for you at the office" he did have
1t all staged up nicely for us. And
did you note the suggestion to his
partner2 you are about ready to
go home, aren't your" and how
nicely just we three were left alone
would have laughed only was
wondering how soon the Starr
would funk, and it was Just too
ridiculous when he said: "Just
wait here for Mr.. -; he will be
back directly and talk with you."
right on top OF his sending him
home. And he did look so weakened
after he had walked with you to
from the door: "Mr. - has just
come. expect he will not be back.
SO shut the door when you come
out" and hastened off.
Oh, yes, Howard, you are one
great actor. Only cold feet and
keeping the conventions do make
you too impossible, and there you
are so disgustingly impolite in leav-
ing a friend to find his way un-
aided from his office. To be a good
product of the SNUG, sleek civiliza-
ton you have grown old in and the
brutality of spying on your wife
and the surveillance you put her
under Is 80 unmanly withal.
VTLLLFTES HUSBAND
Yes, shallow, bad hammered. cold
footed poltroon, for he has nothing
of property he earns, and where
are those honors he said last night
he expected to derive from life. It
means when your and my eyes
sought each other. and I wondered
for an instant what does he mean.
When I looked from your face to
find him cringfng before Mattie'S
gaze over the dirty inuendo 1t cast
upon the mother of his girls. And
I Just wondered what is 1t he calls
honor when he slurs his children's
mother to her face with the drivel-
ing notion in his head that 1t would
not be understood.
/ but add him up as I find him,
and guess you will hate me for
throwing him under the microscope,
but also please remember that
lenses only enlarge what is there.
would cut my tongue out before
/ would slur my Mamsy under any
circumstances.
I wanted that ball to open this
evening, for I was aching to choke
him black in the face for what he
said last night. Do you wonder
that tramped the sweaty streets
last night till the blood-red haze
of madness seemed to sweep my
brain and murder crept into my
hearth I tramped to and fro until
1 worked the whole thing out and
saw that 1 had no rights in the
matter that you are not willing to
give.
DECIDES TO LEAVE CITY
I have decided to leave the city
and go my way till<death or destiny
finishes me or him, land had gone
only to your home to tell you all
goodby, but found that Fate had
turned a leaf and that while still
you love me you are anxious to
be rid of me. and I have said so
let 1t be. When he turns this other
trick, and now the question Is shall
I make him apologize or fight or
swallow his dirty slurs and quit.
This is the bridge I will cross in
the morning at nine.
Now, what brought me here7 Just
this. Thirty-three years ago saw
the beauteous face of a loving
maiden first at the room Of an
aunt and then at Oran Moons, and
loved for time. and eternity the
irIdescent dream Of paradise that
| heaven revealed IN you, the fafrests