The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-05

.or gour dan ana for his children
sake
Even stood oEi Car Conductor
a friend of the Bryans had this "
say Of EeaWtt
Ieayitt his been intoerabie ever !
since Lincoln people first Knew MN
and now that he is attempting %
seandalize the Bryans he does nor
dare to show his face in the town ln
decia inc that Mr. Bryan personally (;
urged him to marry hutn that ne
u.eayitD was tiatteled and assented'
and that Mrs Bryan sought out Lieu
tenant Owen ana. suggested 20 tef
daughter that she should dipfce |
Leavitt and marrE the British olllceh
the artist advenhlrer has stepped be
yond the line where fobearance r
might save him from wrath.
TT was in May, 1898 That LeaYltt
came to lincoln He brought q 'let'
ter Of introduction to MIR Bryan and
asked permission 70 paint the latter
picture The artist was practicallHi
penniless, boarded at cheap hotel
down town and had run up % street
car bin OF several dollars on kind /
hearted conductor who carried the f
artist free on the latter's trips TO ana |
from aiFryiew The concuctor paie /
the fare ont OF his own pocket but to
this day the money has not been re-
paid by Leavitt.
Bryan offered Him Money to Leave.
1T IS true that Ruth became In
fatuated with Leayitt and when he
parents dlscerned the girls head mad
been turned by the attentions OF the
adyentprer, they pleaued Win her wi
give him UP.
Mr.. Bryan even offered to reward
Leavitt with money II he would go
bis way and Quit the town. Nobody
IN Lincoln knows for sure how Lea
witt managed TO subsist without yisl-I
bic means from May TO October, when
ne married the girl over the protests
Of her parents All the while the Bry
ans had sternly refused to consider
The proposition Of marriage, but Ruth
I was impemous, and when her elgh-
4 teenth birthday approached, early IN
\ October, she bluntly informed her
fathe! and mother that she would wed
the artist at home with the consent
4 of her parents, or Quit Faifyiew and
marry him anyway when she had az
tanned her legal majority AZ is.
i "Mr. Bryan shrank from the scan
dal attaching to an eopement, and
when he realized the hopeessness OF
shaking the girls determination and
Of appealing TO Leavitt, he capitulat-
ed under the pressure, and on Octob.
er 4, the day Ruth was Is, the wedding
took place at the Bryan home, Mt.
Bryan stood by, white as death, While
the ceremony was progressing. His
wife, feeling that her daughter was
going TO marital perdition, retired TO
sob away her grief in the quiet OF
n har room, where Mr.. Bryan found her
ksLortly after almost in a stale OF
nervous collapse,
Parents Saved Her From Starvation.
"rhe welded life OF the Leayitts
. was Just as Mr.. Bryan and his friends
mad feared. Leavitt was incompetent
TO suppm't his family ard but for
FREQUENT gifts Of money by Mr. Bryan,
the total OF which gan into the thou
sands of dollars, the girl-wife and her
children would have lackec FOR the
hare necessities OF life These facts
were sworn to BY Mrs. Bryan and
Mrs, I.eavitt at the time Of the d.
yorce suit in Lincoln a year ago last
January.
, "I.eavtt has charged that he knew
nothing of the divorce until after |
Was 2 anted The truth is that Mr.;
1. L.eaytt wrote him repeatedly durn:
the year and more while he was ab
senting himself in Paris and pleaded
r with him to send her money so thai
! she would not be compelled to accepl
, aid from her parents. She walnef
him frequently that his conduct woulC
o force her into the divorce court, hu
! the gay life Of Paris seemed to ap
4 peal to him stronger than the ties t
q home and wife and children. and th'
+ divorce court was Mrs. Leayitt's onh
release
Most exasperating of all is Lea
n, Wits falsehood that 50 good and pur
= woman as Mrs, Bryan had interest
z ed herself in Lieutenant owen. Tn
b truth is that MIS- Leayitt, grown old
II or In years and realizing The esp0ns
X bilities OF womanhood and mother
H hood, had no thought of men unit
Y after she was free She first met th
E British officer in Colorado less tha
II year ago This is we'll known {
n Mrs Leayitts Colorado friends. bot
K in Glenwood Springs and Donyer
Doesn't Think Leavitt Will yisi
Lincoln.
g THE Englishman was smltten an
u ardently p essed his suit Mrs Lee
x witt however, remembering bitterl
* hcr experience with the artist, won't
3 not listen until after the lieutenan
Y had secured the consent OF the Br.
G ans It Is true that she aided him
H his courtship by inducing her parent
y TO visit Jamaica last winter, wher
D The lieutenant was then stationed a
4 a royal engineer in the British arm
y service. and the lieutenant impresse
4 the Bryaus so favorably that they a
N sented to the match 1t was an hon
n orablc courtship and the attempt
N leayitt 70 hesmlrch It proves hin
N even more contemplate than ever
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