The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-11
ASKS HEART BALM
DaShing Widow Sues Broker
For Breach of Promise.
PUTS DAMAGES AT $4,000.
In Love Letters t. my Own Lit
tie Sweetheart" Defendant Says
They Were Extravagant
With Kisses.
PUTS DAMAGES AT $4,000.

New York. March S.-Theodore A.
Ryerson, scion of the well known and
wealthy family and n prominent bro
ker and member of the Stock EN-
change. is defendant i'm a suit for
breach OF promise brought by Helen
NJ. Walters. dashing widow, of Chi
cago. The case was called for trial be
fore Justice Dugro in the supreme
court The plaintiff asks $4,000 dam.
ages.
Mrs. Walters, who is twenty-seven
years old, is n decided brunette and
extremely pretty. She appeared in the
court wearing blue suit, with furs,
and black picture hat with large
white plume.
Many love letters figure in the suit
They are all of the most endearinG
character. The following is sample
of them, which the fair plaintiff re-
Ceived from Ryerson May 81, 1908:
My own Little Sweetheart-I love you
with all my heart, and | want you to
marry me at once. Please do not spoil
my bubble will you. dear? I'll do my
best to make you happy. Try me.
Ryerson's letters all began with MY
Dear Little Sweetheart" MY Dear
Helen" and My Dear Little Girl"
Here is one of the "My Dear Sweet
heart variety, dated June q, 1908, and
written aboard the steamship Campa
mia when Ryerson was about to sail
for Europe:
Ever since | left you my heart has beer
like lead, and all the time | have tried &c
reason with myself, hoping that your love
would prove reality. There is nothing
that | can tell you, my dear. that you dc
not already know, only how recklessly
and wickedly eXtravagant we We're of ouI
love and kisses, and yet sweetheart. il
was good and simple kind of happiness,
too, with no wrong in it to imbitter its
memory; nothing for which l can ever
reproach myself.
| missed you dreadfully. There were
pretty girls galore, but you would have
been queen among them. Goodby. dear
In another letter Ryerson wrote:
Helen, dear, you are to me my ideal OF
an honorable and beautiful woman, and ]
respect you | love you. What more
can | say to you, my dearest sweetheart: ::
My whole heartful of love. is yours.
On Sept. ~, 1908, he wrote:
hardly know what to say to you, deai
little girl, except that / am very sure that
you do love me, and, while that in itself
should make me very happy boy, l love
you, Helen. quite blndly and with all my
heart, more than l want to let you know.
How long it will take to right the wrong
| have done you | do not know, and you
must not ask me. What / have done that
was really wicked was teaching you tC
| love me.
1 have your dear picture and your mem.
| ory, and | can love them always.
RycrsOn on another occasion wrote
Il am thinking of you all the time
and your dear features help to make
me happy"
Mrs. Walters says that, relying upon
RyerSon's promise TO marry her in
| September. 1908, she made extensive
| preparations" for her wedding and
expended large sums of money in the
! purchase of n trousseau."
She adds that RyerSon's failure to
marry her has resulted in great dam.
age to her feelings and reputation and
that she has been greatly humiliated
and injured in the esteem of the com.
munity in which she lives and with
her friends and acquaintances.
Mrs. Walters testified that the only
reason Ryerson ever gave for not mar.
rying her was that he had changed his
mind She said he did everything in
his power to make her love him.
You do love himT asked her coun
sell
Yes"
you love him nOWy"
Il, ~