Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-18


Of the leading corporation and finan-
ciaI experts in San Francisco, is the
defendant in a breach of promise
suit for $4,000 filed in the United
States District court by Miss Marie
lola, for three years cook and
house keeper for the Conlisk family
Helen lola, the pretty, flaxen haired
Of Miss lola, now almost
four years aid, is the child Of Con
lisk, says the plaintiff
Young Conlisk first promised to
marry his parents housekeeper on
December /, 1908, and had made re-
peated promises to marry her since
then, according to the complaint
filed.
Attorneys Henry F Marshall and
Walter j. Thompson took the matter
up with the elder Conlisk in January
and say when it was suggested toI
him that his son marry the lola
girl, Conlisk Indignantly declared
that his son would never marry a
servant.
ELUSIVE letters to the number of
fifty, nearly all signed Your loving
Id, r." will be introduced as evil
dence in the case. The letters de-
precate the fact that the writer is
] limited financially, but would like
to send the recipient some money.
The letters are addressed my dear
Marie"
Ever since the birth of her child
Miss lola says. she has been seeking
to have it recognized, but without
success. She says she has been Of
fered transportation to Europe and
that a proposal has been made to
have the child adopted by a well "a
do family, but that she refused to be
separated from it.
Since leaving the employ of the
Conlisks, which she did before initial
ing her charges against young Con
lisk. she has been working as cook
and domestic Recently she was
employed in Sacramento. and while
working there she received many
letters from Coulisk she claims.
Marie lola came to America from
Austria about the middle of 1904
and after working in New York two
years went to Los Angeles. From
there she came to San Francisco
, and entered the employ of the Con
! lisks.
She was trusted by the family
she says, and she showed lette
: which she said was written by tn
elder Conlisk when he was in Hone
: lulu in the spring of 1908, in whic
he urged her to look after things a
the Conlisk home as well as sh
could
d She said young Conlisk's advance
began soon after she was employe
by his parents. She says he offere
marriage and that when she e
: pressed distrust of him he threatene
her.
According to the complaint filed
court yesterday, Conlisk convince
ne her in December, 1908, that he won
marry her. The complaint eharg
that when she attempted to repul
- Conlisk he beat her. protesting tn
he was going to marry her
In the spring Of 1909 she left t
Conlisks and went to Sacramen
There, in the county hospital on S,
tie TENDER 26, 1903, the child was boz
Miss lola exhibits letters which S
IA says Conlisk sent her about Il
- time. He was working as supeN
or of outside lines for the San FRI
cisco Gas and Electric compa
stationed at Colgate, Yuba coun
and later at Auburn, Placer coun
letter dated from San Francis
October 2, 1909 concludes:
Il am awfully lonesome down h
without you. Write right away
want to know how you are. WI
right away, as ! want to come
and see you. Which is it, boy
, girl? I'll close with loving kiss
Your loving Id r."
8 Another letter. written a few
re later, comments upon the fact t
the child looks more like the W.T.
'n's than like Miss lola, and says
ecu part:
80 it's a girl! That is good
NJ ny, It looks more like me than you!
w., can hardly wait until | see it,
~ The burden of many Of the let
y. is expressed in this extract from @
u, 81 wish / had lots of money
~ you, dear. hope TO have s,
day"
In several of the letters men