The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-16
MAIL ORDER" BRIDE VOICES
 CONFIDENCE Williams "on the Level" With Her, and She'll
 Stick to Him" HER LIFE ONE OF
 UNUSUAL HARDSHIP Doesn't Regret Marriage to Man She Met Through
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My husband is innocent and I know it. don't suppose that they will let me testify here for they won't where T come from. but if they did I could prove through others that he was never in Bark hamsted on Satur- day night, November 28.
 They say a, wife will lie to save the life of her husband, where leone from, and I guess if I had to could, too, but that is, not necessary, for he was always straight with me and I know that he is not the kind to harm the hair on anyone's head
 Thus spoke Mrs. Isaac N. Williams, accused of being an aceomplice in the killing of storekeeper Case late at night with the heavy steel ax1e-bar belonging to a lumber wagon.
 About 29 years old, with ordeals more than is the average woman's lot, her features are still youthful and one is impressed by the calm, i'm the sordfd, light housekeeping sur roundings of a top-f1oor room in the lodging house at ST liberty street. Seated at a table upon which were strewn the untouched remains of a supper that had been cooked on a stove that occupied the opposite cor ner Of the room from that in which a bed stood, she calmly faced her in- terrogator with a semi-defiance bred by adversity. In another section of the room stood an open trunk in the tray of which were many scores of pictures, large and small, of friends in the east and west.
 And the police that were in this room when T came home, took a lot more,'' she said, rueful1y. They must return them to me with those letters, for they are mine and have nothing to do with this matter. want them she said petulantly
 How did you come to marry Will Hams 2'' said tHe reporter
 You ough8 to know, she replied. taking him for 3. detective. ou read all those letters
 < When it had been explained that tho caller was a reporter and not a de- she said:
 Well, that's different. hate po- licemenl Do you know, they came into this room without my knowing it and were locked in when I came back. They did not. seem to care at all for my rights or my personal possessi ons-
 Life Fraught With Trials.
 The history of Mrs. Williams. for merly Miss Mamie WiHhite, is fraught with adventure and tragedy. Born in CookvilIe, Texas, 29 years ago, which is located in the eastern part of Texas. in the cotton belt. she has seen much of the wild life of the ranges for her father and m other moved about the cattle country. The wild life resulted in her fathers death and soon afterwards her mother died after a. terrific cl0udburst She was early comp pelled to provide for herself and for a while lived with 8 sister in Oklahoma, but one day the sister, all 4l,,2 nearest neighbor, touched the hem of her dress to a red hot wood stove, while she was performing housework, and. without being able, to summon aid. was enWeloped in the flames When those on the small ranch re- turned it was to learn from her lips the awful tragedy and to witness her die in all the agony of a horribly burn ed mortal.
 Cast upon the world on her own resources, she worked in varying oc- equations until last year found her in Fort Smith. Ark, where she was a cutter in one Of the many overall shops of that city
 Longed to See the East.
 AIt was dreary. life,'s said Mrs. Williams last night. q have always wanted to see the great east. From a little child I have heard about it, and when you hay enc one to fall back on there is little difference to girl where she works. One place is as good as another.
 .I know many of the western girls They all want to come east-the fac tory workers, I mean--those who ton all day and have bat a few hours at night,
 sone day one of my companions had 8 natrim onfal journal We were taking of the chances offered to girls. Most of them were afraid to put their names in it. but I did not care. T wanted to get east and all I needed was the car-fare. did not have to marry the man if I did not like him. and could get work as well here as if I had been out of employment in the west-as I often had. It was the long chance and I took it.
 Does Not Regret Venture.
 No, do not regret it. for I met Ike and I liked him. We were mar ried and he has always treated me fonorably. He was on the level with