The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-13
WIFE'S DEVOTION
{ LEADS TO GRAVE
Dies From Drugs in Eff
fort to Wean Husband
From Evil
FOUGHT FOR TEN YEARS
Husband, Insane From Habit,
Pleads That He Does Not
Want to be Cured

PORTLAND. ore, March 12.--Ar-
yur Test. 32 son of a well-tO-do
I9.,s family loved his wife dearly
b. N.- wife returned his love. Bul
unUt u.- wife, cold In death, was
tN,r .l the public murguc few
sp.s away from the city Jail where
,u.ne I..f is confined. When they
Ira.lH. luc news Of The death Of his
rr,.g. young wife to the man in the
,DI Le burst into wild n, of laugh
tyr uc laughed loud and long, but
10 rev gradually hollow and died
ou, iu moan.
Test is iu raving condition
caused Dg the excessive use OF drugs,
Nuw lui then he breaks out into
s0m. I.l.i song or gives way TO uu-
ulrr04u." laughter His eyes
dane, brightly when he laughs and
they seem to tell of times when they
laughed naturally in wonderful boy
h..d days.
.ud-, George Rossman, Of the su.
purur court, investigated the case
W the Tests aud relates what he has
called tu, saddcst case in his career
Uu tup bench. Judge Rossman, who
Nrug .hp story rrom the helpless
Dr. suacg stated that no more beau
u,uI woman ever came into ms
courtroom than Mrs. Arthur Test.
She. -1u. died OF excessive use OF
G.uss.
\ Nifc's Devotion.
o. .s rAu story Judge Russmau eN-
u.u,U OF a girl wfo's futile at
t.Mp.s tu save her young husband.
Two years ago Tcs. came before
Judge kussman. He was quite
healthy ,lu and promised to rid
himself ol the drug habit. ON each
successive visit to the court OF Judge
BosmJu, Test would bring wi,h
him his wife and their two young
stUgs. And on each occasion the
wife would plead for lenieucy for
her husband
A year later Test was brought
in,O ouur, again with his wiic. This
time the judge saw the glow depart
Cd from the young woman's face.
She was carCiessly dressed as were
tlsp lAy children. Judge Rossman
suspected that Mrs. Test also had
uD.Imbed to tho lure of the drugs.
be was right. But the young wife
explained that she took a littlo< bit
g 1,der 20 please her husband, and
thinking she could win him over
more easily by living his life with
him and suffering with him. But
DE drugs proved too great an evil.
Mrs. Test was placed in hospital
ard was cured. Judge Rossman
saw 10 that. Her children were Civ
en- back 10 her The mother of
Test then pleaded for the release of
hur son and offered TO watch him
D.csply and well in their new home.
Judge Eu5sman released the young
man. a few days later he was
found In a north end dive, again
saturated with morphine and CO.
ca.ne Again his wife and mother
pleaded for him and vowed their
love for him. Though he was
stepped I'm drugs, his wife's love for
him did not die.
Victim Of Cocaine.
Mrs Test then journeyed from
Their fine country home in Washing
: ton and sought out her husband in
,ne dens of the north end. She
found him but could not drag him
awake. Unwilling TO leave him she
Played with HIM as one would a
reckless child lest 1t grow too reck-
less She accepted a few doses of
cocaine and then tried to bring him
nome. But the cocaine got the best
ot her. and in her hys,erical con-
alton She demanded more and
more and It WAS given her. She
died that night.
The Tests were married 10 years,
ana before the husband was forced
INTO life gutter by the drug habit
"'y possessed one of the most i'm
posing homes in seattle Test has
been sentenced ia iail for four
months. Judge Rossman having
given him up as hopeless. 81 don't
want to be cured" Test told the
!age as the jailor took him away.