Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-22
STORY OF SHAME
And HUMILIATION

departed almost Immediately. | was
very happy and worked hard at my
studies, as l wanted him to be
proud of his future wife
Mrs, Patterson says that they cor
responded for five months, at the
end of which time, responding to
cablegram from Strouss, she re-
turned to New York and, in com
pany with her supposed benefactor,
went Immediately to Chicago, where,
the biography states, Mr.. Strouss
registered for both of them as
Miss Gibson" and Mr.. Strouss."
Their rooms were adjoining.
Promise of Marriage.
1t was here, Mrs. Patterson de-
clares, Strouss began to renew his
@Dromise of marriage, but always he
postponed the wedding day.
Il was so miserable and unhappy,
although he gave me everything
the narrator exclaims, for when l
thought | had him persuaded he
would put me off again, until one
day he sent me back to Paris.
The fall of the same year he
came for me again. This time he
told me that he had given out the
information that we were married
and that everyone believed it.
so we came again to Chicago,
where We stopped at the Stratford
hotel, in which Mr.. Strouss was
financially interested,
For five years | lived with him
as his wife. He introduced me
as Mrs. Strouss wherever we went
and to his friends No one ever
questioned that l was Mrs, Strouss
east of all my people-and all
that time ! begged and pleaded and
coaXed him to marry me. want
ed so much to be like the other
women | knew"
| Meets Future Husband.
Miss Gibson, as she was then,
1
met her future husband, Charles A.
| Patterson, at a skating rink. They
| became great friends and although
she told him her story he asked her
to become his wife and expressed
. desire to meet Mr.. Strouss.
/ After his talk with Mr.. Patter-
son, Mr.. Strouss came to me and
said that he was glad that the
biggest thing in life had come to
me and he wanted me to be hap
PLY married" the narrative con.
! tinues
1T wasn't until some little time
afterward that | learned that | had
been made the dupe of two men
Imagine my feelings. was crazed
with sorrow"
Strouss, the biography says, had
given Patterson $500, which Mrs
Patterson supposed was wedding
present. During a quarrel with hel
husband she asserts that she learn
ed that this was the sum given
Patterson for making her his wife
Thereafter, she declares, life was
one long humiliation, filled witt
Patterson S attempts to make hel
secure money from Strouss. Accord
ing to her story, Patterson ever
proposed that she become an inmate
of Georges place" in Chicago. She
states that one of Patterson
schemes was that she should in
yeigle her old admirer into com
promising position, by means o.
which he might be blackmailed.
Story of Married Life.
Accidentally meeting Strouss ont
day, she told the story of her mar
ried life. He expressed sorrow ant
Invited her to take tip to Eu
rope with him, she asserts, but sht
refused. Her husband, however, shC
says, was delighted at the invitation
and insisted upon her going
threatening to kill her if she die
not.
The story goes on to state tina
Patterson demanded $500 from
Strouss, which the latter turned
over to Mrs. Patterson, but Pat
terson, upon receiving it from her
declined to write an acknowledg
ment which Strouss desired it il
alleged, to protect himself.
when abroad Patterson insisted
on more money, which Strouss, the
narrative declares, declined to fur
nish, and sent his companion bael
to the United States. She says tina
he gave her, personally, $4,000, will
the injunction that her husband BIZ
kept in ignorance of the fact
The latter, upon her return, ask
ed her how much money she haC
and flew into rage when she re
piled that she had none. Finally
he bullied and threatened her into
admitting that she had $500, which
he took.
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