South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-22
LOVEY-DOvEY LETTERS
WILL SUPPORT CLAIMS
EpiStIeS of Love to Play I'M
pOrtant Part in Suit
For Damages.
News Times Special Service:


KALAMAZOO. Mich. March %
Letters which needs must have
been carried in envelopes Of asbestos.
so burning were they with messages
Of love, kilograms carrying promises
OF undying affection, and night let
ters which must have needed en-
velOpes Of rubber to carry their
oceans OF kisses''-these are the
bits OF evidence with which Mrs Eva
Blakely proposes 20 defend her
claims when her breach OF promise
suit against Robert Thorne Of De-
troit comes Up for final decision in
the circuit court of Kalamazoo
county.
Not one but hundreds Of these
love missives she has in her posses
sion and every one Of them, she
claims glows with declarations Of
his love, despite a statement pub
lished this morning, in which he is
reported To have said he never pro-
posed to her.
He says he never proposed to
me-, she said. when reading the
statement We'll. of course. he
has, not once tut many times she
answered. very reticent she was
about talking OF the case. But after
considerable persuasion, her eyes
dimmed with tears of "A long. sleep
less night. her voice broken with
convulsive sobs. she told her side Of
the story
It's not that ! want to marry him.
/ don't. / wouldn't marry him for
anything j wouldn't know what to
do with him. OF course. at one time
] did care fO- him. He pursued me
everywhere. Letters and night let
ters and kilograms from him follow
ed me to every section Of the coun-
try, and nowhere could I get away
from him. Finally l promised to
marry him. Because he wanted me
to do it, 1 gave up my profession as
a singer, on his promise to marry
me. We expected 70 be married
soon. From time TO time he put me
off. Then he told me / was not in
his class and finally that / was too
l saw him. the very last words he
said TO me were. You are a good
woman. You could never be any
thing else but a good woman
But I don't love him. Please re-
member there is no love in this But
I don't want any other woman TO
suffer the humiliation. tie misery,
the suffering which ne has brought
upon me. want women to know
what kind OF man he is. I believed
him. Z trusted him, and at one time
I loved him. But there's no love
left now.
Il can't tell you how all this pub
licity hurts me- Please don't say
anything about it, 1 would so much
rather have nothing in the papers"
she pleaded.
"I had been so carefully reared
in French convent. so carefully
educated abroad. I have Travelled
throughout Europe. and in a way
lad been so carefully protected
against the things that hurt like
this. that I'm terribly sensitive. and
I can't tell you how this is breaking
my heart. But I don't want any
other woman to suffer what I have
suffered And I don't think a man
has a right TO tell a woman he loves,
her. ask her 10 marry him, insist
upon her giving up her profession
10 marry him. and then, because he
changes his mind, cast her aside. II
he is a man he should be willing TO
make some adjustment. though no
money can compensate woman for
such humiliation. such unhappiness.
Gould l sing again? IL seems as
though no song was left in my soul. /
as though all Joy had gone out of
my life. with no heart left. I am
broken in heart and in spirit There
seems nothing left. Not that would
marry him. I wouldn't And there
is not a bit of love in this now. |
But I don't want any other woman
to suffer" She sobbed
Mrs. Blakely is a woman OF strik- !
ing appearance who is known TO
many in Kalamazoo. Her unusually
fine voice has had the best OF train /
ing and she has been heard through !
out the country.