The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-26
GRAND FORKS, N ID. TUESDAY, JULY 2s 1910.


she was kind TO- him, he says, before
she obtained q divorce from Cum
mings In 1907, and more than kind
after the courts had freed her.
He says that he asked her to. mar
ry him then and that she promised
to do so but asked him to wait until
her father was dead. 1t was impos-
sible. he says she told him, while her
father was living. He says he be-
1ieved her and interested himself in
her fads and fancies; one of them be-
ing the organization of the Cat
Club" which gave an entertainment
several years ago in which the
guests appeared as cats and frogs and
hunted for rats on their hands and
knees. They read plays and poetry
and some prose and then played ro-
mantle games, says young Mr.. Girls
void.
Once they were Romeo and Ju-
liet" and he, all in sport to be sure,
climbed rope ladder to her window
where she waited to give him ro-
mantle greeting. It was done, more
over. under the cameras eve and
pictures of the Rbmeo and Juliet epi-
sode will be Forthcoming at the trial.
Griswold Wretc Song to Her
/ He wrote and there was. recently
published song of his composition
entitled when You Are Nigh" He
says it was to Mrs. Smith he wrote
1t. His chorus runs:
| The world seems to me much
| brighter
When vOy aPo AZ ,,,,, e;Jo,
Cares melt away like the ocean
| When you are nigh.
You make my heart beat lighter
AS on loves wave we ride
Life seems an endless golden
dream
When you are nigh.
Griswold says that he has in his
possession fully 200 letters to help
convince Jury: that Mrs. Smith
called him in these letters her "Sieg-
fried" and herself his "Brunhilde; )"
that she promised to love him cal
ways. and unto ashes;;" that she ad-
dressed him as ."Dear Lii Ruzzie''
and sweet boy" and "honey lamb"
| Some OF these letters as they we're
given out were shown to Mrs. Smith
today at her home at Stamford. She
said she had written none of them
with marriage In mind or with roman
tic Intentions.
IAN UngrSteful Cad.o
There is nothing in any of the
letters" said Mrs. Smith, ito suggest
anything more serious than puppy
love. Griswold is an ungratcful young
cad. l suppose that if I had continu-
Led to give him money this would new
er have happened, He is heavily in
debt and has been borrowing money
on the strength of this suit.
But he'll never get another cent
out of me-. l am not to be frighten-
ed in this way. AS for those letters
that this young cad tries to bolster
up his suit with they were just the
letters of a mature woman to kid.
| like to write letters and | like to
get them. but when letters get cold
they represent nothing. You can't
find anything about marriage in any
of them. The boy never even pro-
posed to me. He was inclined to be
sentimental but refused to meet him
on that ground. told him repeated
ly that would not marry the best
man on earth.
81 have known Mr.. Griswold several
years. met him through his mother
and was kind to him. introduced
him to friends of mine who helped him
with his music and to people whose
acquaintance and friendship would be
valuable to him. From time to time
assisted him financially. would
give him small sums Of money for
this or that purpose. Once. when he
was in the Stamford hospital for an
operation for appendicitis, I advanc-
cd him 5000. A few weeks ago he
asked me to lend him $500. refus-
ed to do it and he became angry. He
mentioned the names of some of my
personal friends in a gossipy way
and l told him to leave the house
and never come hack to it. am
we'll rid Of him. but dislike all this
not2riety. He has nothing at stake.
| / made him socially. l have a great
deal" - " @N'
Mrs. Smith added that Griswold
suffers from headaches good deal,
and that he was once in a sanitarinm
at Delaware Water Gap.
Russell Griswold's lawyer said last
night that the young man had gone to
stay with friends in Connecticut in
definitely The lawyer said that more
letters would be made public in a day
or so.
The letters that Griswold displayed
as having been written to him by
the wealthy Stamford society leader,
are certainly clever and entertaining
IN nigh degree, to say nothing of
the tenderness that sugars their con-
tents. His correspondent often H.
Illustrated her letters with funny little
sketches and sometimes she wrote In
Irish or German dialect and occa-
sionally used slang with a deftness
tnat George Ade wouldn't disavow.
TO LYNCH WHITE MAN
Mob After White Man Who Assaulted
White Girl.
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