Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-22

Mr.. Colman is 81 years old. Miss
Reeves is little more than 20, pretty
and a milliner. One of the salient
features of the case is that Coleman
is married and has five children. This
fact, Miss Reeves says, she did not
know until after she had agreed to
become his wife.
1T was in August, 1910, that he
proposed to me-" said Miss Reeves III
her home, No. 234 West Fifty-second
street, land l believed him. Why.
was heart-broken when his nephew,
who lives in this city, called on me
in November Of that year and told me
Mr.. Coleman was married. l broke
off the engagement Immediately and
was under the impression that the at
fair was ended.
In August of this year, much to
my surprise, he called to see me. He
admitted he was married, but said he
was going to get divorce. Then
found that l really loved him and
agreed to forget his deception ami
consented to become his wife.
He failed to Come Back.
He left me to go buy an engage
ment ring. | have not seen him since.
l wasted a great deal of time and
much sentiment upon him. Why, he
was to come back on September Is.
and everything was settled as to our
coming wedding.
81 wrote to him and he didn't ao
swer. Then | was so angry at being
made fool, of giving him all my time
for year and half-my time GER
tainly ought to be worth something
that decided to sue him, and | did,
for $4,000. and [ have the evidence.
too
Did he write letters?"
Letters! | should say he did. And
he calls me blackmailer! | have
DAILY TWO
the letters to prove whether I'm
blackmailer or not, and | will pro-
duce them when the trial is held. |
have a letter in which he says he's
going to get divorce so that every
tn ng will be all right. Another says
how happy he is that | said | would
marry HIM Letters! Heaps of them.
If | had kept them all they would
have filled a trunk. Sometimes he
used TO write me twice a day.
Glove Letters? Guess"
What was in all these two-a-day
love letters?' asked the reporter.
.Ill produce them at the trial. Miss
Reeves replied.
Were they sentimental?'
Miss Reeves smiled What do you
suppose a man would say when he
was writing twice day to a girl he
had asked to marry him? Guess
Miss Reeves sad a moment later
that the very first guess was right
Mr.. Coleman says he doesn't know
you, that he never head of you un-
til you threatened to file your suit.
said the reporter
Never heard of me-" Miss Reeves
was indignant. 'He met me first
| when he came to the Victoria Hotel
where l was staying. He took ME IT,
the theater and on his next trip 10
New York proposed to me- And he
says he loScnt know me! Why, az
said he had two automobiles in Wilk-
insburg, and that when he married
me l couli have one for my very
own. And he has the automobiles too
His nephew told me So
Miss Reeves came to New Yorl
from small Ohio town three years
| ago She says she hoped the news Of
the suit could be kept out of The
papers, and it was only to answer
Mr.. Coleman's charge that she con
scented to talk. He made only foul
visits to New York to see her, sht
said
He is fine-looking man, and no
as old as he look she explained
He is over 60, and doesn't look A.
Not a gray hair in his head"-ther,
was pride in her tone-"fine looking
and a spender, too. ! really liked hin
| very much'