The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-12-09

bridge Of Sighs.)
II was an emotional drama that
was enacted Sunday afternoon with
in the charmed circle of Chief
Egan's "Gloomroom with Kitty Ger
rard, drab Of the Underworld, play
ing the stellar role.
Glad in rumpled red Norfolk Jacket
and bedraggled blue serge skirt, fair
haired, limpid blue-eyed woman of
the town was hustled out of the
Patrol wagon. with her suit case,
in the charmed precincts of Chief
and there questioned, relative to
her knowledge of the antecedents
and marauding expeditions OF Mich
olson her consort, arrested Saturday
and held in jail upon several charges.
Kitty was reluctant to confide in
the chief, claiming entire ignorance
regarding the predatory expeditions
Of the cprsair, who sailed the Ohio
Main
she claimed to have met Nicholson
only three or four weeks ago coming
up from Memphis with him. She
gave his names as John Burns, alias
John stone, claiming that she had
never heard him called Nicholson un-
til few days ago.
While the woman's story bore the
imprint of truth, the chief was salts
fid that she knew more. which she
suppressed, and held her "over" upon
a charge in connection with her IL
legal relations with the River
Pirate" until she evinces a disposi-
tion to tell all the truth.
II was under the cross examination
in reference to her Illicit relations
with Nicholson that she dispelled all
reluctance to talk and then followed
story of her ife in the cesspools of
this world.
She told how she was born of re-
spectacle parents and reared upon an
Iowa farm. How she met aud ac-
companied to a series OF revival
meetings young man who painted
to her life OF ease in a Metropolitan
city surrounded by wealth and host
of admirers. She was pictured ar
rayod in silken garments and
adorned with jewelry, with the re-
suit that she was, innocent girl,
engulfed In the swirl of brute male
passion only to be tossed aside later
when he had tired of his plaything.
Kitty told how she had entered
upon q life OF shame, following her
cndeayors to obtain work, how she
had met and married, not once, but
twice, these unions eliminating in
separations subsequent to constant
chickering's and quarrels
AS she related her story simply
and without any attempt to glorify
or excuse herself, tears welled up
into the limpid blue eyes which sud-
denly dashed over the brim and fell
into her lap with one great, big
splash,
This storm-beaten wreck, aged 81.
the aotsam and jctsam floating ON
an ocean of sin, still bearing traces
Of former beauty, although scanned
aud SCARED. told how she had
wandered from home to st. Louis,
Little Rock. Memphis, Evansville,
Cairo, Paducah and back over the
same territory again and again, un-
I'll recently, broken down In health,
she was denied refuge in resorts
where She had once reigned as queen
and compelled. since she had no
home, to take up with Nicholson.
ten years her junior, down in his
little tent at the confluence of the
rivers. When the rigorS and hard
ships Of such life was pointed out
TO her, she said it was preferable to
her former existenee--the solitude
furnished her an opportunity to com
mune alone and confide her troubles
to the bosom Of the madly-rushing.
wind-tossed waters, and she had
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