The Washington times., 1922-03-12
~ REVEALS MANY LOVE AFFAIRS OF DIVORCE DETECTIVE

Norfolk, tells Of the writer's 'sslfish
love" Tor Colbert:
my Dear: Guess you have gotten
my letter and I am sorry for being
love you 20 much and ! didn't want
you to 60 home to your wife: but
,s Of course, you wanted to be up there
VI the Fourth. and suppose ] wa
selfish to ask you to stay.
"Oh, how ! love you. After you
] left I came home and cried. all be.
cause thought you didn't care
" The nice thing I had to tell you
was. love you % much and
wish the time would come %
could show you just how much.
Write me a letter and tell me
n II you do still love me, just as
much as ever. i suppose you with
80 think this is q foolish letter. but.
81 dear you don't know how much
love you. =
~ Dear, must take money from.
We tmentioning the name Of her hus-
u band. then being sued for 4 d.
atvorce)7
o Please write me q long letter
W soon.
v; Lots of love-"
'i!hvery addressed to Edward M. Col.
q" bert. Room 10. 42S Fifth street.
northwest.
Another Of the love notes states:
- my dear Poppy-Received your
5Aletter today and I am glad that you
ioare not going away. / am so worried
"sand afraid what might happen. i
II one else and didn't see anyone at
sa the party I liked better, but had
ia very nice time.
IN II am ready to go to bed
suppose you are just starting out
.nwith some girl. maybe (mentionicg
e-the name Of Washington society
4, woman). I wouldn't doubt 1t. Come
t.when you can. Love-" P. S. love
,ayou K"
az He is Worried.
t' Following the Times expose and
the disappearance of the ''divorss
salesman's" love diary and love let
yrters. he wrote:
-; my dear AT this writing n
letter is being written to your father
telling him all about US, that I nm
ia married man, and quite q lot OF
,rother things. / suppose.
a, my desk was broken into and
u,quite a number OF your letters have
disappeared. cannot go into de-
60 tails, but am afraid there Is going
to be trouble.
"Ten your father that I will be
In Norfolk to see him next week.
I will send a telesram designating
the day. Yours ETC.,
EDWARD NJ COLBERT"
She Is Provoked.
Another letter to him reads:
"My Dear Poppy-Received your
letter this morning. and ! don't
think 1t was a bit nice In you to
have gone away last night when you
- told your girl at first you were
going to stay all night.
The next time l ask you to
come down here, X
see you here. you will know 1t.
Now you Just watch and see.
Remember this is one time you
could have seen me, and you didn't
want to. l suppose II I had been
willing to go to the hotel you
would have stayed.
But don't you worry. Mister
Colbert. you won't be bothered with
me any more.
Then They "Made Up"
Then the quarrel was apparently
"made up" as evidenced by the fol.
lowing letter to Dear Poppy" writ
ten a few days after the one quoted
above:
Received your letter today and
was SO glad. Bad boy. you knew
all the time loved you. We are
both so mean to each other and you
are worse than I am. / believe
II want you to come down soon
Make 1t the first of October because
/ want to see you at that time. I
want to see you all the time, too.
Write me a nice letter and tell
me II you love me just as much
after receiving my last letter. !
love you just as much as / ever did,
and II possible more"
"Man.made Laws"
The Beau Brummel's ideas on love
and man-made laws are expressed
in another one Of his love episrIes.
"Just few words on the question
Of whether you are doing right or
wrong. You have said that you
really and truly love me. am sure
that 1 love you.
This being so, neither Of us has
broken the law Of God, because we
love truly, and with complete
fidelity to each other, and we are
mated by the only ethical reason
which makes mating moral-a great
love.
"It is true that we are married to
another. but we have not broken one
OF Gods laws. Man made the mar
riage laws of the world, not God.
Becsyse II they had been made by
God" there could never have been
any foolish marriages, or any mar
riages at all, except for the eason
Of love.
This is my honest belief because
love you dearly, yes. better than
life itself. will not say better than
any other woman, because 1 have
never loved any woman but you, ex
cept my mother. I trust that you
will share in my belief"
When the writer went to Colbert,
for first hand information as to the
method employed by the divorce ring
I'm securing divorces for clients, Col
bert frankly sold the system to
him and his prospective divorce