The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-07

In another the writer said;
'I am a cross, Grabbed and ugly old
cove, and such a nice letter from such
a pretty girl has turned my head In
the first place, you know, am a di-
vorced man, forbidden to marry; sec
ond, any man who has failed to retain
the love of the woman who was despe-
rately in love with him, would count =
a crime to try matrimony, with girl
the second time. In the third place, l
am too old; so all 1 can do is to walt
for WIDOW or divorce who has had all
the matrimonial experiences she wants
for life and so we will just be good
friends.
I'VE will go travelling and autoing to-
gether and have pleasant talks and
such things. There are several dozen
widows and divorces here 1 intend
looking over very carefully before re-
turn, but 1 will make no selection be-
fore I have talked it over with you.
There is a widow, right small, about 40
years old, very pretty and only slightly
damaged, that I hear lot of good
about. She is very shapely and l will
get your opinion of her. She has a nice
little nose and black hair. She says
she does not like Chicago. The dirty
streets. the hogs and such things re-
mind her of her late husband New
York is where she wants to live, and
she has an ample fortune to do what
she pleases with. She is a little black
and white dream
A telegram sent to Miss Graham at
129 Auburndale avenue, Memphis.
Tenn, in June, 1907, read:
photograph superb. Keep your
health and good looks Have written
In another letter Miss Graham was
advised as follows:
Keep your head. Don't touch wine,
beers or liquors. They will ruin your
complexion. You know the stage Is
not my advice. If you need anything
will help you. Sorry you spent that
$1,000, but star at $4,000 a week, sup
pose, has to buy $45 or $50 hats
He Meets Miss Conrad.
The pretty young defendants were
dressed alike today in striking gowns
OF white serge trimmed with satin
stokes wore sombre black and car
rled a boat shaped straw hat of the
coolie fashion.
When Mr.. Stokes resumed his tes-
ulrnony he said he was not sure how
many letters exhibited yesterday were
ms. He thought about eight which
told Of visit made to his office on
May Il, last by Miss Conrad which
was the first time the latter was
brought into notice. She came into
his office highly excited and was IIn-
able to speak for some time
W hen she became Gained" Stokes
continued. She told me she had
been out to dinner the night before.
said
the dinner and the young lady was in
distressed circumstances with little
money and no clothes and that she
had taken her home to her rooms.
When I went out this morning to
business Miss Conrad said, I left
Miss Graham in bed. I forgot nv Den-
Gil and returned for it. When I got
into the room I was shocked to find
note on the table together with A
| bundle OF letters, the note saying that
raj l1 Isol
and she had addressed letter to the
press
Doctor Pumped Her Out.
Miss Conrad also told me-" con-
tinued Stokes, that some of the LET
ters were mine and some belonged to
other men.
She bad rushed into the bedroom
and found Miss Graham in bed her
face all blistered and burned. where
she had spilled carbolic acid. A doc
tor was called and pumped her out
Miss Conrad said. and saved her life''
MISS conrad, according to Stokes,
proceeded to narrate her family his
/ tory She was, according to this mar
ratiVe the daughter of a Russian
prince, who met her mother in Louis
vile and eloped with her. Miss Conrad
! being born in Bluefields, Nicaragua,
where her father was killed in a riot.
Losses of one kind or another reduced
the widows property from 5000, 900
! to 10000 which latter sum she col
! lected in New York on insurance.
This $4,000. Stokes said Miss Con-
rad told him. was suuandered bv A
man her mother married
The daughter then had to go to
work.
"She said,' the witness continued.
| ''she had come to see me on her law
yer's advice to tell me about the let
ters she found on the table with the
suicide note"