The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-02-23
AGED CAVALIER
ASKING A DIVORCE
FROM GlDDY GIRL
Colonel Hayes, Rich Veteran,
Bares Secret of Unhappy Life
With Woman Who Won
His Heart.

New Orleans. La, Feb. 2o.-Colonias
whose a with his young bride
vivian Mitchell Hayes, of st. Louis.
has old his story of the wcoing for
.he first time. He says his young
Bride was the n who proposed, is
minutes after he met her.
There has been SO many misstate-
nents that 1 want to set them straight"
In front of the American hotel in st.
Louis on Hospital tag day. After buy
Ing so tags at 81 each. / told her that
wished l had a little girl like her to
Inherit m wealth. She smiled and
passed on, I went into the hotel and
me and said: IF you want a little
girl why don't you marry me?"
Didn't Want His Money.
81 was greatly surprised, but she
looked so pretty that / o hSf adj
lress. She told me that she didn't care
30 much for my riches as her mother
Has wealthy. My mamma has a for>
}iful home on North Euclid avenue
she said.
II called on her mother the next day
md h old lady agreed to my marry
ing her daughter.
II never saw the girl again in ST
bOulS. AS d IlldlltI VI ldCl WHICH i
married her l had never laid my eyes
on her except for the is minutes that
| was with her in the st. Lonis hotel.
But 1 loved her. My, how l loved herl
Some men make their big mistakes i'll
their youth, but I made mine after ]
grew old. l did mo- urge her to como
20 New Orleans and marry me. She
urged me. l tell 0 this--a woman
Who will travel 1000 miles to marry
A man is usually seeking to serve her
own ends.
Lied About Her Age.
MY wife says she is % years old
Her mother says she is 81, and during
4 row with me she exclaimed that she
was not 2T years old for nothing.
l want the whole world to know
that the man who helped my wife and
Gussie Meyers to lock me up in a
rloset and keep me there three hours,
beating me in the meanwhile. was
arrested for perjury. He went with
is to the license office and in order for
us to obtain the license swore that he
Knew h bride elect, when as a mat
ter of fact he had only seen her for
the first time a half hour before.
II had our room decorated with
howers the night of the wedding. 1t
cost me about 5000 for the decorations
alone. 1 also carried a SIS bouquet
when I met her at the station.
Wnen she became l
went to the priest who had married PC
and induced him to go with me and
remind her of her wifely duties. She
Sawled US Dot out and old the rever-
end father that it was none of his
business.
THAT girl sure trimmed me. When
she arrived here she whispered to me
at the station that she did not have q
rousseau. So I gave her 500. The
third day after we We're married she
asked me to have her picture taken. l
had IA taken"
Receives Many Proposals.
Colonel Hayes exhibited with pride
20 proposals of marriage which he
had received from as many southern
girls, most of them from New Orleans.
Many of them asked that he send his
reply to the general delivery, but some
of them gave their addresses.
II know you are a dear old man and
that you nave been shamefully mis-
treated" writes one girl, who gives her
address.
Il have read every line In the pa
pers about you and the awful things
that girl did to you and I have longed
to meet you. / would come to see you,
but I don't know how you would take
1t. Perhaps you would think that ]
was after your money"
He is addressed v%ariously as Oar.
ling" Sweetheart" "Honey-Bunch."