Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-03
Fallen Creature 10 Jail Says
Bismarck Ma0 Caused
Downfall
Still Loving, She Seeks Ven
qeance by flaunllOg Her
Shame Before Him
he Laughs at the Work Ne
Wrought and IS Welcomed
by Honest Men

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Early Thursday morning woman
of the underworld lay half clad on
the bare springs Of a cot In the city
lCckup.
She was found lying alone in a
IegrO resort unconscious from liquor
and cocaine.
For hours she lay in a dazed stupo!
at the Jail. When she reused it was
to voice curses ana vulgarity so ior.
rible that men of the toughest type
who heard her from adjoining cells
flushed and tuned away.
Yet in the heart of the fallen Wom'
an lay story. 1t was vivid passion
ate story of love and revenge.
Her mind sodden with liquor and
weakened by vice Of every kind still
clung to the story of the poignant
paining love that had brought her to
the life she led.
Rambl.ngly half unconsciously she
told the story. Even in her stupor as
she told the sordid tale Of her lurid
past the woman kept locked in her
own bosom the name of the man she
loved.
4 Four years ago she was a clean
girl, cultured, refined, the daughter
of minister whose mission 1t was to
lead men and women in the better
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Then came the blighting passion.
She met q man whose caresses were
dearer to her than anything life
held.
Wildly and incoherently, in the dim
gray of the dawning the woman told
the story Of the man, for love OF
whom she had followed passions way
ward. course to rags, misery, and dis
grace.
Between puffs on cigarette sitting
cross legged with clothes and hair
disleveled the creature painted the
picture Of her own pure girlhood.
She told how, the man, a prominent
man in Bismarck, then and now, a
man OF wealth and means and
friends, man respected and greeted
by his fellow townsmen had crept into
her life.
She told how she had learned to
love him with blind consuming pas
sion, how he had soothed her fears Of
the great passion by soft promises
and cajolings and then left her ruined
to 60 home and face the shame of a
mother who wore no wedding ring.
Even after that ordeal was over and
she could look no other woman in
the face, the girl could not forget
her false lover.
Haunted by the love that no shame
was sharp enough to kill the broken
girl came back to Bismarck to be
near the man she. love,i.
But in Bismarck he had standing
and position: He only fiouted the
woman upon whose head he had
brought shame.
Abandoned and abused the woman
turned from love and swore life of
vengeance. FOrfthreea years she has
stayed in Bismarck living life of
shame, Haunting her disgrace and de.
pravity in the face of the man who
caused 1t. 5e 4!
She meets aim now that he may
see the terrible work his selfishness
has wrought. And when they meet
upon the street she watches his
averted face for sign of pain at
the sight of the life sc wrecked.
And II she sees the pain she can
feel no Joy only a sorrow that she
has succeeded in hurting the man that
she cannot hate but can only love, a
love that still binds her to Bismarck
that she may see "him."
And now she cannot pain him. He |
looks at her and laughs. She is to
him but a cast of broken toy. Her,
wrecked life IS but milestone in
his path Of selfiesh pleasure. why
should he suffer sfor the wrong that
he has done? Z
He has wealth, pleasure, luxury.
Upright men take him by the hand.
And the woman has only bitter
that haunt and drive her
over and lower.