The Washington times., 1919-12-07
meant no harm to her
Il love her too much-I
am ready to die for
her.
y GROVER CLEVELAND GORDON
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finded SIS and her husband SIS in
Police Court Then we began to get
threatening letters, that we were
going to be killed. I was not afraid,
but we again moved.
One day after a heated quarrel.
Robinson left-he went to Richmond.
leaving his wife on my hands. We
moved over at / street northeast.
We lived as man and wife. Mrs. Rob
inson was known as Mrs. Gordon to
the neighbors.
saw nothing wrong in this. I
lad urged her to get a divorce. from
her husband, told her that when it
was granted, we could get married.
She had opportunity to get the nee
essary divorce because her husband
ran away. 1t was only necessary
for her to get the money to take Up
the proceedings.
Woman Received
Anothcr's Attentions.
But there arose a GOODNESS between
US when Flossie received the atten-
tion of the printer employed at the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
I warned her against him. ] told
her she had promised to marry me
that it was not right for her to
"carry on" with another fellow. As
we had become betrothed to wed. /
felt she was doing me an injustice.
But she told me she loved me
that she loved no one else-and i
believed her. Two weeks ago |
thought 1 saw her run from the
Western Union telegraph office and
enter an automobile. 1 hurried after
Il
went to the telegraph office and
asked if she was there. They told
me she had left-that she had gone
home sick. l went to her home and
found she was not there. l admit /
was angered. She came home finally,
and i told her 1 saw her get into the
machine.
She denied it and We became recon-
ciled for moment, but then We
quarreled, and 1 admit that I struck
her-but only playfully. I then left
her. 1 had decided to go to Wheel
ing, to my home.
But we again became reconciled,
and on Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday we went to the race track at
Bowie. We lost and won. 1 gave
her some money! think it was 800
and told her to put it in the bank
pair of shoes for baby and herself.
Lost His Money
At the Racktrack.
/ went to the racetrack alone on
Thursday - Thanksgiving Day-and
lost nearly all of my money. I left
after the fourth race. / realized
there would be another delay in get
ting enough money together for the
n
Washington i went over to see her
1 told her i was going to Wheeling
but she told me to come back tomor-
row-Friday.
Then 1 lef-, but the next day, Fri
day. I got two half pints of whiskey
from a bootlegger on II street north
east. I went into an alley and drank
one Of the half pints of whiskey.-
Thcn>I wandered over to F1ossie's
house. When ] went in / talked nice
to her.
The baby crawled on my lap and
called me dad. She told me to go to
sleep, as she wanted to go downtown
and get shoes for herself and the
baby.
/ had the revolver in my ovcrcoat
pocket. i put it there as I had in
tended going back to Wheeling and
wanted to take it with me.
As we sat in the room I pulled the
other half-pint of whiskey from my
pocket and took a drink. / asked
Flossie If she wanted drink of whis-
key and she took the bottle and
killed it. ] don't remember what
happened after that. ! wandered back
to the terminal. and, looking over an
afternoon newspaper found that the
police were seeking me for shooting
E1ossie Cod If was a shock to me-