New-York tribune., 1910-05-09

) ne married ne deClOtu tiss't ~ ''hNN1N 49,"
the regulars: so. just q year to q day atler'
/ he enlisted. and it was a matter OF e fe"
months before he was instruction sergeant
and he had q reputation as being the best
swordsnan in the countryside There! ihaI
spoonholder is prize he won.
1t bore the inscription First prize won
hv Cartain !. T Tatlow, swordsnlan.
we came to America IN 1855 and di-
! rectlv 10 Lawrence. He went to work in
one mill and / worked in another. HIS
military craving was Just as strong, and he
| enlisted in Battery {. where, / guess, ne
/ talked SO much of MS prowess that the
! other boys used to make fun % him, but he
was an expert. and ! understand he proved
/ his rigllt 10 brag in friendly contests
There never was 9 better husband than
( TatIow for long time. He was an usher
and he also took the money at the door
| of the old ST I.awrcnce's Church. but he
was a handsome, dashing fellow, and l
soon began 10 hear tales about him that
broke nv heart bore IT as long as 1
could He had gone from the mill on 10
the streetcars as a conductor and I learned
/ to my sorrow that three married women
now in this city. and two single women-at
least they were at that time-helped to
wreck my home Here is pencilled let
ter written by d woman who had tiirted
with him on the streetcar-'
A TeIItaIe Letter.
This letter told of the woman's love for
Tafiow and told him TO wave at her when
he passed the house next time 1t was
dated 1856 and the woman who wrote IL
was married 10 q. respectable workman
1.-The stories kept coming to me IN the
mill" said Mrs. Tatlow First about this
ft,e him
Then about this woman in Essex street
Then about French girl. and when every
thing was proved to my satisfaction i de
termined 10 drive him from the house
Just then 1 learned of his most cruel sin
against me.
II was coming home from my work in
the mill at s O'Clock one night in the fall
of 1889. and was told: y oung Miss --- ana
Tatlow are in your house together. Run
and catch them I did go home in hurry
and the neighbors, who knew my sorrows
with him. ran to me and said: They have
| lust gone. They have been here all after
| noon.
1 THAT was more than 1 could bear. That
woman wrecked my home. and she Knew
! that Tatlow was married and the tather OF
| four children, three of whom have dled.
| had found a letter that dropped from MS
| rocket in which she addressed my nus
band as her dearest husband so that
night l drove him from my house forever
..Peorle told me he went to live with
this girl in Lowell street, but l know that
/ he came begging back at my door week
later. He asked me TO forgive him. and
he would so to Boston and get work and
turn all his money over to me toio
him 1 was through with him, but would
SI,o loy-
would do 1 told him that God would pun
ish him, and that punishment will come
when he is caught for his latest sin He
disaDpeared from here soon after, and
thought he married that girl and lived in
! Pittsburg with her.
Found Trunkful of Letters.
II found after my husband went away
! that there was a trunk of his at the nome
! of the girls father. He refused to give 1t
to me- / saw q lawyer and sherlff was
sent That trunk was in my home IN an
| hour, and it contained harvest There
were bushels of letters from that girl to
nv husband. telling of the most confidential
things between husband and wife and they
opened with My dearest husband and
closed with the words Your darling M
or Mrs. James 7. TatIow. Some of them
out. I told that girls father, and he ad-
uitta6 that he knew that his daughter was
| going with nv husband two years before
/ and he said that he one time intended to
! kill Tatlow, but spared him when my nus
| band explained that he was independently
! rich which was not true. | cursed that
man and his wife and daughter for wreck
ing my home, but since then / have Kept
my sorrow to myself and only wish that /
could find peace from everlasting wrong
doing. Though l cannot harbor anger
against him ! wish that iIe were dead.
al thought he was dead until. November
3 1908, my boy James received a letter.
When ] saw the writing the envelope l
saw that it was from the man thought
under the sod. and told my boy so. He
was only eleven when his father went away
so he didn't know. On opening it we found
it was signed DIR. Elliott, but I knew &
was from my husband, and in a guarded
way he said he knew Tauow and f1shed for
information.
Acting on my instruction, James wrote
a letter, saying that I was married and
taunting him bitterly with his desertiolh
Then came back this letter"
The letter showed that Tatlow hungered
for news of his wife. He at first upbraided
part of the ruse of Mrs. Tatiow. and then
begged of him to return home TO his mother
at least for Thanksgiving. that he could
eat his own dinner with that much peace"
He praised his wife's good sense and virtue
and said that they would not be apart but
for gossiping neighbors, and asked the boy
if his mother would be willing 10 receive r
monthly sum for her support and possibly
consent TO have just one look at him again
The letter was tender and loving, and Mrs
! Tatlow wept as she read It again. She
refused 20 allow fits publication, for senti-
mental reasons.
Wrote Endearing Appeals.
| These letters came from Allegheny,
Penn, and later Tatlow, who was now
signing himself Colonel James T. Tetlow,"
sent eIdearing letters from Cleveland and
Pittsburg referring with feeling TO the old
days in England, when they were SO happy.
and regretting that gossip had parted them.
Mrs. Tatlow, who seems 10 be endowed
with more than ordinary good sense, re-
marked that the trunkful OF letters proved
that she did not act hastily
| The lette~s contained such expressions
| as You were the only woman OF all met
! You're the same Mary of the old days,
| would TO God We were never parted