The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-26
But 1t Was Spurned by
Rich, Young Social
ist Auth +.
NOW SHE WANTS
B AL M In q A S H
Heart Throbs Galore in Hearing
Of S1oo,ooo Breach Of Promise
Suit Of Pretty Russian Girl
Against William Walling,
Writer and Settlement
Worker.
pedal to The Times Dispatch.

II.
New York. February o5.-feart In
terest OF the Kind tina, finds its acme
IN fervent love letters ana the strug-
sic between two women for the love
OF the same man. Will be at par Mon
day in the second weeks session Of
the 100000 breach OF promise trial
which Miss Anna Bertha Grunspan has
brought against William English
Wal!ing. the rich young Socialist au-
thor.
Miss Grunspan, a woman OF twenty
three, with the brunette beauty which
Walling Is said TO have admired 50
MUCH during Ills student days III the
French capital. laid bare her life story
IN the past week In telling the jury
how her mad love" for the American
settlement worker led her to leava
homc. friends and all tina, vas most
dear 10 her to cling to the man who
spurned her affection.
Sobs Out Her Tnlc.
The pretty, simple hearted girl, who
claims 10 have trusted Walling with
her future happiness. sobbed ont her
tale OF q broken heart With man.
tears OF repentance. Her dark. lus-
t-ous eyes wandered about the Su-
rremc Court room. occasionally pierre
ing tho gaze of Walling, as she sought
10 learn how her words we're taken
ile- sentences were punctuated by ami
mated shrugs Of the shoulders and
much wr!nging Of he. hands. O.. II she
was in physical and mental pain.
WaliinS ard Anna S.runsky. the wo
man whom he married after his alleged
romance with Miss Grunspan. present
cd a picture OF unconccrncd interest
In the proceedings. They sat almost
Il ~ of 4 I, Ia t,,ti tf- 4
appeared both amused and bored when
her pathetic love messages 10 her, So
cialtst lover were read in court. .ii
Walllngs letters to Miss Grnnspan
are a strange mixture Of guarded al
Vice and philosophic reflection. They
nre the product Of man trained to
think carefully of what he puts in
can be read between the Anes The
letters OF the young girl, who declares
hc Travelled with her as her husband
and allowed himself to be introduced
&c all her friends as her aancc. are
written from the heart without re-
serve. Every line throbs With the af-
lection she felt for the man she now
sues.
Wife Loses Interest.
Mrs. Wallins. who prefers 70 be
called Anna Strunsky. appears to find
the trial somewhat tiresomc. During
the first day she was In court she
her husband, Their faces were
wreathed in smiles most of the time.
Blu, as the trial progressed she lost
interest in the passionate appeals that
Miss Grunspan penned TO WallNg IN
Russia. Some OF them were sent after
Miss Strunsky had become the wife of
tho defendant.
I--1l I, haI No
experiences and mas written many
prose passages about the sentiments
which accompany feelings of love be
tween man and woman. IN collabora-
ton, with Jack London. the novelist.
she composed the Kempton Waco lei
ters. The volume bears on its tito
page this quotation from Dante: And
OF nought else than love would We
discoursc''
1T Is always more important TO love
than to be loved" Miss Strunsky made
Dan, Kempton write II wish 1t had
been vouchsafcd me TO be by when
your spirit of a sudden grew willing
TO bestow itself without question o..
let or hope of return; when the self
iroke up and you grew fain 10 peat
out your strength in pr;ise and ser
vice for the woman who was soaring
high In tho blue wastes.
Men love as intensely and with as
much abandon as women. People love
in proportion to the depths Of their
natures. and tho finest man in the
world has an infinite capacity for Civ
ing and receiving love-
Concerning the man who takes love
from moro than one woman, Miss
Strunsky had this 10 say.
1T was vampirsm and sin TO take
all from this woman and 20 return her
favor with so much less than ALL as
surely as cownrdicc and selhshncss arc
sins"
Cites Daily Instances.
Miss Grunspan, in her love epistlcs
TO Walling, did not have much to say
of the tender passion in the abstract
She cited daily instances in her own
life TO show him that there was no
one IN the world who could take the
place she had given him In her heart
Once she was tempted by a com
rade"-a physician-who met her in
Paris and became enamored OF her
him accidentally" she wrote Walling.
and he tried to make love to me-
Monsieur told him. 7 am the
wife now four months Of a man who
Is great traveller. My husband is now
In Russia, and | am true to him. Then
you say you want only to call on mo
at my home. II that be so l leave
N6isiH6 idiSc AadresS). GoOC-by. :,
Then she wrote In another letter:
Il am very sorry to tell you, dear.
that I had an accident a few days ago.
As ! was seated In an armchair read
Ing the newspapers was so deeDIy
lost In revsric. more or less real, that
| did not notice the stream OF blood
which was running from MY head.
caused by hatpin which wns in the
chair ana which had penetrated my
temple. It was only upon hearing the
cries OF horror Of my friends that
learned tho pin had taken tho liberty
Of entering my tomple.