The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-03-03
SOUGHT To ENSNARE HUSBAND
Letter Which is Read in Connection
With the Suit Brought by Mrs.
Kate Townsend Causes Merriment
in Court.

The first stage of the Townsend
Kempster society scandal suit closed
Monday in Milwaukee with the presen
tation in the court commissioner s
hearing of the decoy letter which Mrs.
Kempster, a sister Of the late DIR. W.
Fl. Saunders Of this city, admits she
wrote to her husband, and which pur
ported to be letter from Mrs. Town
send to a girl friend, in which the doc
tors love-making is ridiculed with
such phrases as, "He makes love after
a fashion if he is old and deaf"
The letter also says:
"My admirer-that I told you
about-is always on har |. True, he
is old cannot help that-but I have
no doctor bills, and he really ism It the
limit
The letter was offered in evidence,
after Mrs. Kempster said she had writ
ten it, hoping to give the impression
that Mrs. Townsend had written it to
a former girlhood friend and then sent
it to the wrong person. Mrs. Kemp
ster admitted that "my old admirer''
and the other similar references were
meant to refer to DR.. Kempster.
The letter in full is as follows:
This is the first time I have had a
minute to get away and be free from
Interruptions and such tiresome fuss
over everything. / have found a
quiet spot where I can be undisturbed
for awhile. It is refreshing to write
some one freely-unburden my heart
8. little-such a monotonous routine of
daily life. So here / am, off by N.Y.
self Writing-all cramped up over my
lamp-which i never do-you may be
sure am not living at rapid pace.
Everything jogs along in the same old
ways--cards, sewing, visiting, reading.
10, dear, that is the way have lived
hot this week. I feel as if I were
being shut up in a box for days and
about played out I get morbid, of
course, living such life. But it does
no good to make fuss. I have
enough chatter all the time-chatter
from people with whom you have moth
ing in common and the neighbors.
Then at home here we do not pull to-
gether well, as you probably know.
81 am living over my impressions of
last winter, making the most of what
passed into a memory then. AS I look
back it seems as if enjoyed every
minute-but it seemed ages. This
summer has been something fierce af-
ter it, and the next winterl Well, I
have not made up my mind yet. Ny
heart sinks at the thought of it--but
there is nothing definite settled.
Wherever [ am I will be alone and [
won t have to be talked at.
"My old admirer-that I told you
about--is always on hand True he s
old cannot help that-but--I have
no doctor bills and he ism It really the
limit. He makes love after fashion
if he is old and deaf. He is sentimen-
tai, and thinks he knows it all and
he wants to do all the talking, but
you know me, there is nothing like a
little fattery, and am not a prude.
[ fear that does not sound attractive,
but do you grasp the situation I
wish you would go to him, for I feel
you ought to consult doctor, and he
is bright.
81 am not wrought up over him, you
may be sure, and I am perfectly capa-
BILE of taking care of myself, but /
say-bother society. You must have
something to amuse you, but enough of
that! 1t seems long since I heard
from you. o dear, what struggle
there is all the time, and to accomplish
so little. [ have to cudgel myself
to get done what I do-interruptions
again-you see my efforts are fol-
naught this time. This is a fright
this letter, but there is never much to
write about at the best, so 1 will let
it go and send you another soon. Dc
write me. Yours always,
Kate.'