Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-08-17
THINK LOVE NOTE
WAS FROM NEGRO
Soft Missive, Apparently Copied,
Is Sent to ST. Louis
White Girl
NAME OF PHYSICIAN SIGNED
Detectives Trying to FaSten Other
Cases on Man Under
Arrest

ST. LOUIS, Aug. ia poetical bill
let-doux addressed to girl who now
lives in Westminster place, which the
police believe was written by negro,
James Bradford, under the alias Or.
Merrell," was found by a plumber in
an abandoned stove at the Olive street
address, where the girl formerly lived.
Chief of Police Young has possession
of the letter and is investigating the
circumstances. The girl admits she
answered one of the Turing advertise
ments to the Culver building, but de-
MES having received the letter which
the plumber says he found.
The letter was written on the sta
tionery of the Micnoid Manufacturing
company, of which w. w. Culver is
president. 1t was inclosed in an en-
velope which directed the postmaster
to return to w. w. Culver q Son, Gull
yer building, Twelfth and Pine streets,
where Bradford was arrested last Sat
urday night as he was threatening
Miss Bessie Unger of 50SS Maple ave-
nue..
II answered the advertisement in
serted in the newspapers by the ne
gro," the girl told a reporter. when
went to the building that day and
asked for DIR. Merrelp the negro jan
itor, who l now suppose was Bradford,
said the doctor was stalled out on
county road, his automobile having
broken down. That same day he called
up and told my mother the doctor was
back, but 1 didn't go to see him"
LETTER PROBABLY COPIED
Words In the letter are misspelled,
but it reads as If copied from liter
airy compendium. 1t is as follows:
My Dear Little Dreamy Angel
Eyed Girl take pleasure in writ
fnc 1inaG this hon.
ing they may find you well. 1t
seems to me a year since l saw
your sweet face, though it has only
been a few days. What a dream
wife you would be to me if you
were ever beside me.
Since I saw you last I have met
others, just as l have met you,
with forms divine and faces fair,
but none in my estimation would
compare with my little girl Bo-
nita.
over my life your bright face
casts a ray of light, the only girl
in all this world who can cause
my heart to beat just with pleas
ure in her presence, the only little
woman who can rule me and not
be ruled.
What other one could bring such
peace and happiness to my heart
and mind and fill my soul with
pleasant dreams?
/ love you now when your heart
is young and gay. I would love you
when your auburn locks are turned
to gray. I hope that some day you
will wander down lifes path with
me, hand in hand. We will smooth
each others way.
Bless your dear little heart, be
true. am very sorry you will find
nothing inclosed in this but my
song of love. My people are all
out of town on their vacation. am
in full charge of the place all alone.
I will have much to say to you
when I see you again. I hope 1t
will be very soon. would be very
much pleased If you would find
time to come and see me Wednes-
day evening. I am so lonely. 1
want to talk to you and see your
face and listen to the music Of your
sweet voice.
See If you cannot find it in your
heart to come and see me. OF
just to sit by your side is Heaven
to me. Bless your dear little heart,
I will call you up at $50.
I hope you will make no other
engagement for the evening.
must now close this letter for
this time and bid you goodby UNI
til see you.
Yours with love,
DIR. MERRELL