The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
SUED FOR $4,000
Charge of Alienation of Husband
Made Against Milliner.
Irate Wife Saved False Hair to
Use as Evidence.
SHE FOUND LETTERS.
Trouble Followed "a Years of
Life Since Marriage.
Mrs. Boyle's Damages Asked
From Ella Stevenson.
SHE FOUND LETTERS


and fools write letters" the $4,000 al
ienation suit, which Mrs. Adele A
Boyle filed in the circuit court against
Miss Stevenson, might never have been
brought.
However, a week ago Boyle, in NOV
ing to the new live stock exchange
building, took some letters from his Of
fee to the Virginia hotel and put them
in the bottom of a trunk. The wife
whom he married "a years ago and
who bore him two sons, now both
grown, found the letters. She up
braided her husbands and he went 20
live at the Washington hotel. The suit
followed.
In the petition the wife charges that
since May, 1909, Miss Stevenson. also
referred to as Dolly" has alienated
the affections of Boyle, written him
letters, and caused his love towards
his wife to grow cold Only one of the
letters is set out in the petition. 1t is
alleged to have been written by Miss
Stevenson to Boyle June IA, 1910, while
she was visiting her sister near Pratt,
Kan The letter follows:
Dolly Is Lonely.
Dear Sweetheart-It is 500 Saturday
evening and 1 am not with my dear,
good sweetheart Dear, you do not
know what that means to me. 1 am as
lonely as if did not have a friend on
earth and I know that isn't true, for
know of several and ONE especially
who, 1 know, is as good as gold, and
that very one is you. love. At least
that is the way I have it all summed
up. If 1 wake up to find it all wrong
/ shall never be sorry that I believed,
for it has offered me pleasure which I
never would have found anywhere else.
And thing that affords such happi-
ness cannot surely be very wrong.
This hnQll a r3inU old 6aV with
not one bit of sunshine. Have seen the
sun but once since I came and that
was the evening [ got here Just rain,
rain, rain. I'm tired of rain and Kan
sas. In other words, dear, 1 am tired
of almost everything but you. You are
what I want and you fill my life as
nothing else can. acr
1 went to town in all that rain and
mud this afternoon to mail you and
Grace some letters. Don't tell me that
I do not love you. 1 will look for an
other good letter from you tomorrow
Sunday-that will help the day along
some.
Sweetheart, we have lots of little
things OF amuse US, do we not? To-
morrow will be the first Sunday for a
To- time that I haven't spent part
of it with my good, dear sweetheart.
But I will see my dear lover the next
Sunday and lots of other Sundays. But
feelings to let even one Sunday get
away. Some time in the sweet I'M
known future the Sundays will be all
ours, and week days, too. That sounds
mighty good, sweetheart. How does il
ring to you?
Wonder if my sweetheart will be
It is now $50 and just time for us
to be getting home from dinner. We
are Just now on the inside. / have
turned the key in the lock and I am
kissing my sweetheart for the first
during the evening-but the real good
part of it is, it is not the last time dur
ing the evening. Love, I feel real
cheated tonight. The only thing /
have to console myself is to follow in
my mind, our usual proceedings, and
tell you what we should be doing rs
the clock points to the hour.
Dear, do you think me a silly lit
tie girl for being so sentimental? Moth
iny else could cause such foolish feel
ings Of sentiment to arise in me but
you I am just simply foolish about
YOU Now it is all summed up and the
answer is correct. I'll give myself 100
per cent on that-going back to school
days. Dear, just always let me love
as 1 do now and that is all I ask. My
life will be so full there will be no room
for other trivial things.
Dear, feel / am making this letter
too long. But this is my evening with
you and, believe me, dear, have very
nearly spent it with you, although we
are 265 miles apart I have been so abb
sorbed in this letter 1 have forgotten
everything else, and you have been al
most right with me at times. But,
dear. I see this sheet numbers 10. That
is a-p1enty and it now is 9:45. l have
been writing one hour and forty-five
minutes so I am going to say good
kiss Now, be as good as I want you
to be and you Will please some one who
loves you better than all the world.
Goodnight, love. I am growing sleepy
From your own, DOLLY"
Denies Wealth Story.
Miss Stevenson. in charge of the
tailor-made hat department at Frankel,
Frank & Co.'S, Broadway, laughed a
mellow gurgle over the telephone
when she was asked about the suit be-
fore the papers had been filed on her.
What is it all about?" she asked
Mrs Boyle says you stole her hus-
band
4 did no such thing" responded
Miss Stevenson.
'tAre you wealthy" she was asked.
You are being sued for $50. 900, and
you are said to be worth 100000
I'm worth $4,000 cents she laugh
ed.
Then she added that she really
couldn't talk any more just then, as
she was very busy. Miss Stevenson
lives at the st. John apartments, sos
West Tenth street, where she has a
comfortable flat
But the suit is not the first trouble
the Boyles have had over Miss Steven
son-not by several There now is
pending in the circuit court suit Mrs.
Boyle brought November 80 against
her husband for maintenance. She did
not seek divorce.
Besides bringing suits Mrs Boyle
did some quiet scouting. This resulted,
she says, in finding Boyle and Miss
Stevenson about to enter the St. John
together OIL July 10, 1910 She followed
her husband into the hall and pulled
him out of the building, she says Miss
Stevenson. she says, locked the door of
her room.
It was last summer. also. according