New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-18
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< called Burton By telephone, We
arranged to meet at 4 little Chinese
restaurant, where at that hour. o
o'clock, we would be almost alone.
Burton listened attentively to War
drops story as I repeated it.
$50 Schwartz did 1t, after ALL" he
said regretfully when I finished "It's
tame ending. It had all the elements
Of the unusual, and it resolves itself
into an ordinary, everyday man to
man feud. I'm disappointed. We
! can't touch Schwartz"
Il thought the T1mes-Post was hot
after him"
"Schwartz bought the Times-Post at
8 o'clock this afternoon" Burton said,
, with repressed rage. "I'm called OF.
Tomorrow we run photograph Of
Schwartzwold,, his place at Plattsburg,
and the next day we eulog1ze the ad-
ministration. I'm going down the riv-
er on On excursion boat and write up
the pig killing contest at the union
butchers picnic"
"How is Mrs Butler?" asked.
"Delirious." shortly. "she's going to
croak. Wardrop's going to Mexico,
Schwartz Will be next governor, and
Miss Maitland's body will be found in
ctstern. The whole thing has petered
out What's the use Of finding the
murderer Il he's coated with asbestus
and lined with money! Mike, wont
some more tea to drown my troubles"
We called up the hospital about 1880
and learned that Mrs. Butler was sink
ing. Fred was there and, without
much hope of getting anything. we
went over. took Burton In as
nephew OF the dying woman, and I
was glad I had done It. She was quite
conscious. but very weak She told
the story to Fred and myself, and In
corner Burton took IL down In short
hand. We got her to sign it about day
light sometime, and she died very
quietly shortly after Edith arrived at 8.
TO give her story .as she gave it
would be impossible. The rankings
Of a sick mind. the terrible pathos Of
it all. Is impossible TO repeat. She
lay there. her hong thin body practical
" dead. fighting the death rattle In her
throat. There were pauses when for
five minutes she would lie In stupor,
only to rouse and go forward from the
very word where she bad stopped.
She began with her married life,
ana to understand the beauty of It Is
to understand the things that came
aftes. She was perfectly. ideally, q.
logically happy. Then one day Henry
Butler accepted the nomination for
staAe treasurer, and with that things
changed. During hts term 10 Office
he altered greatly; hts wife could only
guess that things were wrong, for he
refused to talk.
The crash came, after all. with ter
rible suddenness There had been an
all night conference at the Butler
home, and Me-. Butler, in frenzy at
finding himself dupe, had called the
butler from bed and forcibiy elected
Fleming and Schwartz from the house
Ellen Butler had been Mortified, STICK
ened by what she regarded as the vul-
gar1ty Of the occurrence. But her 10y
atty to her husband never wavered.
Butler was one honest man against
a complete organization Of unscrupu-
ious ones. Hts disgrace. imprisonment
and suicide at the White Cat had fol-
lowed In rapid succession. With Ids
death. I'LL that was worth while in his
wife died. Her health was destroyed;
she became one Of the wretched army
OF Inconsistencies, with only one idea;
TO retaiiate. to pay back in measure
full and running over, her wrecked
life. her dead husband, her grief ana
her shame.
She laid her plans with the caution
and absolute recklessness Of diseased
mentality. Normally shrinking, nerv-
GUS woman. she became cold. passion
less, deliberate In her revenge. To dis
grace Schwartz and Fleming was her
original intention. But she could not
get the papers.
She resorted to bounding Fleming.
meaning to drive him to suicide. And
she chose method that had more near
y driven him 10 madness. Wherever
be turned he found the figures eleven
twenty-five G. sometimes just the num-
Der without the letter. It had been
Henry Buffers cell number during his
imprisonment, and II they were craven
on bis wffe's soul they burned them
selves In hnes Of f1re on Fleming's
brain. For over year she pursued
this course through the
mai. at other times IN the most unex-
pected places, wherever she could bribe
messenger to carry the paper. sane1
No. hardly sane. but. inevitable as fate.
The time came when other things.
went badly with Fleming. as had al
ready Heard from Wardrop. He fled TO-