The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-12
LOVE BOTHERS A
RELATIVE OF 7. R.
CASTOR Bullock Sued fol
$4,000 by Miss Poole
Who Has the Dope.

New York. March 11.-Justice New
burgers vacation OF an order requir-
ing Edith &. Poole to submit to an ex-
animation before trial. Diseases a
breach OF promise suit for $4,000
damages for a broken heart. brought
by Miss Poole. a petite and beautiful
art student. against CASTOR Bullock
Means related through the Bullocks
20 former President Theodore Roose-
welt.
Justice Platzek last month directed
that Miss Poole answer questions pro-
pounded by Means lawyer before
trial She asked Justice Newburger.
through her counsel. Strouse a.
Strouse. to set aside the order as i'm
"providently granted" This was done
enabling Miss Poole. who Is 10 years
old, slender. June-eyed and an accom-
plished linguist and musician. to re-
tain possession to her bundles of love
letters and other secrets of her suit
against Menas until the case came to
trial.
Miss Poole claims that Means. who
In connected with the Cannon mills. at
Concord. N. c.. and who has offices at
63 WoOh street, In New York, promis-
cd TO marry her In July 1909. The
promise was repledged In hundreds of
letters. written from various cities in
the United States. and which TEEN
with ardent protestations of affection
and loyalty. These letters will be pro.
duced at the trial. They will reveal
Menas. II Ia said, as a portrayer OF
the grand passion in high literary
skill.
Miss Poole has Just been graduated
from the Loretta Heights convent. In
Denver, Col, she says. when she came
70 New York to visit relatives in West
Seventy-Second street. with whom she
now makes her home. she proposed to
enter New York's art schools. An &C.
Quaintance with Means ripened into
friendship and then love. and he was
accepted, she says. when a proposal
followed. Miss Poole's father. a for.
mer prominent Denver lawyer. is dead.
Means Travelled considerably for the
Cannon mills. in which his family.
members of the "Bullocks OF Georgia. "
made famous by one of o. Henry's
stories on President Roosevelt, ar in.
terested. She says he composed odes
to her beauty. wrote poems on her
charms and penned romances Of their
happy future In letters.
Wrote Her from Chicago.
Miss Poole blushingly confessed
that Means addressed her as my dar.
lingest little Edith" and usually signed
himelf as Hon" One letter. dated
Chicago. October 1909. read. in part:
1T hurts me because I cannot faith.
ON. a. ! like to do. the last letter
you sent men. Remember, dearie,
that all ! said ] mean. You ought to
know enough about me and Of me
to realize that Bullock never fails
TO keep a promise. love you with all
my heart and soul-yes. body and
soul. will marry you soon, dear. and
you and ! shall always be happy.
have not been untrue to you. even In
thought. Send me your most intimate
souls yearnings on how you love me-
Hon"
Means 10 now in Chicago. Accord
Ing to his answer to the complaint he
says he found that she and the in.
fluences of life in convent were to
tai strangers and that she also sui
fered exceedingly from thirst. His an
swer records that she admitted these
things to him. whereupon. he alleges
no told her that there would. be NO
wedding bells.