The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
NOW WOULD LIVE.
Mrs. Louise Sayles viii Try Max
ing child Happy.
Intends Asking Divorce From
Her Singer Husband.
TELLS HERLIFE STORY
Found Theory in Marriage Not
Good in Practice.
Tried to BE Content But Could
Not Stand baby's Abuse.

After three unsuccessful attempts to
take her own life, Mrs. Louise Sayles
today said she never will try the sui
eide route again, but will devote her
time making little 4-year-old Hazel
Sayles happy. One of her first acts,
she said, will be to obtain a divorce
from a brutal husband and if possible
have him arrested for sending her
abusive and obscene letters.
Mrs. Sayles recited a long list of do
mestic troubles to show that she is not
altogether to blame for her rather rash
acts of the last month. 1t will be sew
eral days before the woman regains
strength and can go to work.
But when do go to work." declar-
ed the woman, 81 will stay at work and
never again attempt to kill myself. I
don't think / am altogether to blame.
It's not really my fault. Seven years
ago when 1 was married, was green
little girl only 16 years old. My par
ents had been dead several years and
my grandmother with whom lived had
taught me only one side of this life
That was the side of theory, not OF
practice. I thought when 1 was mar
ried that 1 must be content. 1 tried ever
and ever so hard to be happy, but Jim
was SO mean to baby and me that just
couldn't stand it. Then 1 left him.
Sang in Picture Shows.
"Jim sang for the picture shows. He
said he made good money, but 1 never
saw much of it. Sometimes he would
go away to work, but he did not send
money and ! had to work or starVe.
was taught to work and so long as he
was good to me, didn't mind, but he
wasn't good. He abused me and made
me do things l hadn't ought to do; and
still 1 thought 1 had to live with him.
IT worked and left the baby with a
woman on Fourth street. 1 was weak
and my strength would give out, and
didn't care whether / died or not. Last
winter Jim went away. 1t was miser-
ably cold and I worked and worked to
keep myself and baby warm and buy
something to eat. One day woke up
and saw 1 had been wrong. 1 wrote
Jim a letter not to come back; that he
had mistreated me. But he did come
back and I gave him all the money l
had to get him away again. Then
there was the time at the hospital
when I paid his bills and all the time
baby and I had to live. He kept COM
ing back and nagging me for money,
until I was afraid to go TO work for
fear he would be waiting for me. Then
he wrote such awful letters.
Somehow Couldn't Get Ahead.
but it was not altogether the letters
that worried me. It seemed as though
I couldn't get ahead. Every time 1
would get few dollars he would come
to Topeka and make me give them to
him. Then I was sick. and 1 don't
know how I would have lived if the
woman here hadn't taken care of me.
AS soon as I could 1 went to work
again Then came a letter from st.
Joseph I thought maybe Jim would
be good to me. so L went to see him,
Just as he asked me to. When we
reached st. Joseph he was gone was
so disappointed 1 didn't know what to
do, Then l took those m orDhine tab
let's. You can bet that I won't do it
again.
I'm the two days have laid here
have been learning. I do not have to
endure all this trouble 1 will get
divorce and ask the court to keep him
away from me. I will turn his letters
over to the federal officers and see
what they think of the case. No, 1
don't want to get Jim in trouble, but
I want him to leave us alone. so that
I can make living for baby and my
self"