The Washington times., 1920-10-16
WOMAN TELLS HOW.
SHE SLEW AFFINITY.
Principal in 27-Year Illicit Love
Pact Declares Death
an Accident.
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when she described her first visit TO
DIT. Tetlows departments during an
illness from which he suffered five
years ago.
For the first time he then called
her his sweetheart, she testified, Se-
claring he had found her again only
to lose her as he was too old and was
about to die.
Following this illness the doctor
became a frequent visitor to the
Kenyon home, with the result that
Mrs. Kenyon protested and her hus-
band complained that the neighbors
would talk"
CALLED HER HIS WIFE.
A short time later, while standing
in her garden on a certain night, The
witness said she looked up and beheld
DR.. Tetlow.
"He held out his hands to me- she
testified, "and said, you were my
sweetheart-yOu are my wife. You
don't belong to Kenyon and 1 will
have yOu-'"
After marrying her present husband
Mrs. Kenyon said she moved to West
erly nine years ago. DIR. Tetlow called
at her house. He recalled their earlier
meeting, she said. but remained only
a short time. The next time she saw
him was on the street five or six
months later.
From that time yon there were occa-
sonal meetings between the couple
up to the spring of 1915, when he was
i'll He came to her house. but she
sent him home and did not hear from
him for several weeks.
had Urnwn very interested in
him" she testified "He was we'll
bred, intellectual. and had charming
manners. l asked Mr.. Kenyon If he
objected to my inquiring about the
doctor. He said no, and to send one
of the children to find out what was
wrong.
Il did this, and also requested one
of the women who lived in the same
house as DR.. Tetlow to
look after him during his Illness"
A short time later a woman told
Mrs. Kenyon the doctor wished to see
her.
WENT TO HIS ROOM.
"I went to his room," said the wit
ness. land on entering saw him lying
on the bed. wrapped in a bathrobe and
with a comforter over him. He said:
Il wanted you SO, but / didn't think
you would come. He motioned me to
a seat beside the bed and said:
"You are my only sweetheart
Now I am old and ready to die have
found you again. He took my hand
md placed 1t against his cheek. He
then told me how ON the f'rst day I
met him on the crequet lawn ! crossed
the grass and askedi Are You to be
my pnrtncr?'
"He said he had never forgotten
that and the picture of me at that
time. He did not want me to go, but
after an hour / went home. 1 called
once again with some dessert I had
prepared and we conversed for about
an hour.
"He recovered from his illness and
then began to call at my home, his
visits growing more and more fire.
quent He called three times a week
or oftener. BY 1916 these visits had
become so frequent that I protested
to the doctor, and my husband com
planned that the neighbors would talk
HAD KEY TO HIS HOME.
AT this time l had n key to the
front door of the apartment house in
which DR.. Tetlow lived.
"A short time later, 1 was standing
in my garden one night when l saw
DR.. Tetlow quite near me. He held
out his hands TO me and said: You
wer my sweetheart. You are my
wife. You don't belong to Kenyon
my only explanation II that 1 was
n lonely woman and VIC failed TO live
mp to the standard which we set for
ourselves This relationship continN
ued up to year and half ago,
ceasing before the birth of my last
child in October of 1919"
Continuing her testimony under di-
rect examination, Mrs. Kenyon testi-
fed that for some time before the
shooting she endeavored to persuade
the doctor to stop visiting her and
that he refused.
"on June o. two days before the
she said. he came to my
house when 7 was working In the
garden. lie was cross and irritable,