The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-01
DOROTHY DORR'S
 UNHAPPY LIFE Girl Who Married Julian Kwan, A Chinese, In Elm City, Tells Of Bitter Ex-
 perienceS LETTER WAS WRITTEN
 JUST BEFORE DEATH When She Learned That He Had Another Wife-W Willing To Wed If He Re-
 formed
fFrom China Press, Shanghai. July 9.
 191S)

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 CFrom China Press. Shanghai. July S'
 1913)
 Extracts from a letter written June by the late Mrs, Julian Kwan (Dor- othy Dorr) from "5O Rue de Paris, Tientsfn'' to a Shanghai friend are printed herewith. They make it quite clear that suicide was not in the mind of the unfortunate woman They in ssfcate the relations between herself and the Chinese family into which she supposed she married
 It will be rerneIn bered that Mrs. Kuau was a Connecticut girl married by a Hartford minister to kwan who was at the time a Yale student Kwan had previously married young Chi nese woman of excellent Shanghai family and is now serving eighty days in the municipal jail
 The following letter shows the dead woman to have been full of courage The story is a. most pitiful one. Why so-ca1Ied Christian ministers in Eng land and America will continue to marry young girls to Chinese men who have wives in their own country is dfff1cuH to explain If one were to put his. hand on the cause of the present succession of tragedies, the blame would come very near the of hcfating clergyman who fixed poor Dorothy Dorr's fa-te.' The young couple had tried other cities and oth- CT officials in vain. They were stran- gers when they called on the Hart ford minister, but he Was willing to take the chance and the marriage
 ..I am living here in. Tientsin on the bounty of friends My friends here are all American missionaries and beyond knowing my story and giving what assistance they can in the way of friendship in nty present trouble they cannot do more Perhaps you do not know that I was only 6 years old when came 70 China Gin 191O). I had not a sfngIe friend here, and when learned that my husband had a wife (Chinese9 the shock was very great I decided to go home (she here explains that Kwan Chi-ming, father of her husband, gave her a Srst-class passage to New York plus $500 gold-1
 Gives Up Her Rights.
 ssOn receiving this signed a paper in Lawyer -ss office, Shanghai. I thereby agreed to accept that amount and bring no further action against any of the Kswans. You will understand what sort of an agreerpent' u waA fully realized at the time that had I brought the case to a suit. I should have won and received a much larger sum. married my husband for love, and when was so grossly Wronged, the idea off receiv- ing dollars to compensate me for ruined life did not enter my mind. Had they offered my expenses, would have as readily accepted them.
 1T went as far as Kobe, Japan, where I disefn parked, owing to 111- ness. I was poisoned by fruit in Ma gasaki Before leaving the steamer I received a telegram from Julian Kwan asking me to return to Shang- hai. I replied that IT was iii and that he should come to me instead. More telegrarns were exchanged and con- sented to return I had no notion of remaining in China indefinitely and I thought that Julian was in need of funds and I might help him with. what I had
 T can only explain that was very young and had not a friend to coun-l sel me. His father as I understood, had sent him from home when we came to Tientsin, and we lived in a miserable way the couple of months before I left. We had not even rIcksha money to go to parks where we might get some fresh air, and our house faced west and was like an oven all day My one idea was to- help Julian if I could. When got back to Shanghai I found that Julian Kwan was embarking for Tientsin that very day. was on the verge of collapse as all I had suffered had greatly undermined my hitherto per feet constitution sailed with him, simply because did not know what else to do
 Not Happy One Single Day.
 ',I have not been happy one single day og my life in China My lot has been made doubly hard by my moth CTS attitude In the last year Fl her No one else at home know of my disgrace as mother did and wished to make it public. In 1911 I tried to go home and carried on corresp or- dence with American officials. (Here1 Mrs. Kwans makes it clear that her husband Was seriously u1lk1nd to her. He objected to her goIng.1
 T have always kept as much to my-| self as possible and best friends are the missionaries Lately MT. Kwan expressed a desire to get an absolute divorce from his Chinese wife and went to Shanghai for that purpose. You know the result 2 have several times expressed wish to go home and he always said he would not as- sist me to leave so I simply had to| stay. The $500 gold I received from his father went towards making a home in 1911, but mostly in gambling for Julian I don't know how many hundreds he has gam bled away and have hardly had the necessary clothes to wear. I was and am help less My health has been in wretch ed state all the time I have been here and we have never been happy to- Eether How could wei
 The trouble he has passed through now may make a man of him shall promise him to wait one year after leave him, to see what he can do, and if he makes good I'll marry him; but I have had too bitter an experience to not take an advantage of a chance for freedom am not yet 20 and I have passed through such ages of misery. since coming to China that have aged considerably and at times I really think my mind wanders- Fl
 sT want to stand by Julian KWan ,rvzffI he comes out of prison and