The evening world., 1911-02-21
WEALTHY SOCIALIST
MIXED REVOLUTION
WITH HIS W00|NG
Russian Beauty Who Is Suing
Millionaire Walling Reads
Odd Messages.
HE o HER REPLIES.
"You Want to Abandon Me; |
Don't Reproach YOU" She
Wrote From Paris.
HE SHOWS HER REPLIES.

Annette Berthe Grunspan's story OF
her wooing, repeated pledges of mar
rage. her Tilted love and broken heart.
for which she asks 5000 o damages
from the young millionaire Socialist.
William English walling. now the hus-
band OF Anna Strunsky, as told to JUS
lice Giegerich and a jury In the Sur
preme Court to-day. might h~ttlngly be
entitled "A Revolutionist's Romance
Her only love AFFAIR ended in as revo-
lutlonary a I'M as 1t began, any
how. Miss Grunspan asserts.
In Walllng's courtship. carried on by
mail while he was attending sociallstic
congresses In capitals of Europe. a vein
of his passion for socialism runs paral-
lei with his protestations of love to the
little dark-eyed and petite Russian
girl whom he met on a Paris street
and for whom he waged an impulsive
and successful courtship.
Socialism and Wooinc.
After identifying receipts for her
tutelage in the Pigier School of Paris
and Sir Isaac Pitman's School in Lon
don, where she studied English to be
presentable TO Mr.. Walling's friends
after her marriage" the pretty little
sirl read from n long series OF postal
cards forwarded to her at Paris from
nearly every country of Europe.
Some were signed "Koucfouszki,'
others bore the signature Revolution
ary." Mostly they were signed Eng
lIsh." They were dated from July TO
IatahaH 1unE LFpaArtnns1 N'tn M
tlonal little witness sobbed quietly as
the reading brought recollections of
,enderer years. ono signed Kiou
ciouszki'' and dated Warsaw read:
Everything going well. The revo-
lu,ionary movement brisk. Write
Your affairs day by day TO me. Don't
work-you hear? Write that YOU are
gayer and It'll make me happier.
wish I could see your beautiful smile.
Thigk OF me often. l Hope to take
YOU to London by Nov. /, sure. You
are such a good little child now that
] love you much more than ever.
Another bearing the anne signature,
reads:
The congress here !s most interest
ing. ] have met the rich and poor;
bhNt III ~ - N'h'N''
Socialists here. and nj, know me. |
beg OF you NO. TO work. l would feel
like a criminal II you should nave TO
do any work. Think OF me as OF
yourself. l hope to receive letters
from you each day. Love to you and
kiss You warmly.
Miss Grunspan was asked why Walllne
proposed to take her to London.
He wanted mo 10 learn English. He
told me when we were married, which
he said would be early in January. 1906,
he wanted lis little sweetheart child ito
speak his language. He gave me money
for my schooling in Paris and London
and paid my other bills"
Thanks for .ruel Words.
Some OF the letters sent by Miss
G%runspan to Walling, by which he hopes
10 convince the jury that no ongagemont
existed follow, in part:
Paris, Autumn. 1906.
Thanks FOR your mean and cruel
letter that just received. You app
peared to love me a little. but now
that you have left me to travel a
little you want to abandon me alto
gether. don't reproach you for
81: oh. far from that.
To-day when We left one another
] was very sad. but / had a good
deal of courage, for | had the hope
OF seeing you after your travels.
1900 want more letters from
you. which hope will be a littls
more affectionate,
Another letter dated oct, 90, 1905. read;
Permit me a reprolch.
deary Zone must rways speak
frankly. Your ambition Is badly
placed; you think that you would
lower yourself IL you loved a young
srl. | thank you, Just the same.
for the LITTLE affection that you have
FOR me, for the confidence YOU have
I'm me and also for the kind inten-
tons that you have toward mo
do not dare to hope much hat
you will have a preference for me.
who, perhaps, am less than all these
ladies thai you have been able to
meet in different countries. The
man that shows himself Indifferent
TO tho tenderness that one gives TO
him Is an egotist and a coward.
Why WAS he created In this worldr
Certainly not 10 be shut mp in "A box
ana to keep to himself.
love You much.
Made Himself Loved.
In another letter. dated Paris. autumn.
1905" she wrote: