The Washington times., 1922-06-01
MARRIAGE,
NOT CASH. .
HER GOAL
SAYSSHE
Statement Carries Yelled
Threat to Expose Details Of
Romance With Doctor.

Romance With Doctor.
Marriage and not money. is
what twenty-two-year-old Seatta
Madagan wants from DIR. John
Ernest Mckenzie. Miss Madagan,
a nurse, is suing DR.. Mckenzie
for $500,000 for breach of prom
Use in the District Supreme Court.
Law Her Last Resort.
Marriage, not money, is what I
really want from DIR. Mckenzie" she
said today.
"On the very afternoon that my
lawyer, James J. O'Leary, filed suit
for me, l again asked Mac If he in.
tended to carry out his promise to
make me his wife. When he said
No l appealed to the law. True, I
sued for $500, 900 damages, but 1t is
not money that / really want-no
amount of money can make repara-
ton for what l have suffered and
what will suffer in the future on
account of DIR. McKenzie's treatment
of me. But the law, which will com
pei man to carry out his promise
10 give-his house to another person,
who. relying OH his promise, las
changed his financial condition for
the worse, does not, so my lawyer
tells me, compel q man TO marry a
girl who, relying on his promise to
marry her, has irretrievably changed
her position.
so long as / live, so long will
suffer from Macs conduct to-
wards me. And yet l love him
love him so much that I will, as [
have often told him, forgive him
for everything he has done IL he will
do what he promised TO do-make
me his wife.
DIR. Mckenzie and I are both
unmarried. When he proposed to
me and asked me to marry him and
asked me to promise to marry him.
which did promise, he told me that
was the only girl thit ne really
loved, the only one ne ever trIly
creved. believed him. / loved
him. 1 still love him. IL wha: he
said is true. why shoulln he mar
ry me IL l am willing to nlarry him.
But Mao. after gazing my affections,
my love, my promise 10 marry by
his protestations of love and affCc.
ton and his promise 20 marry me
has indicated that he does not in
tend to keep his promise.
Says Suit Doesn't Tell All.
MY pleadings with him to live up
to his promise have not caused his
mind to will to do what is right.
My tears at his reputation of his
promise have not, 1t seems, caused
his heart to prompt him to do what
is right. Can you tell me what else
to do other than sue? Suing him
may-I hope it will-cause him to
think seriously OF my situation,
caused by him-and II he thinks
about 1t honestly, a little bit un-
selfishly, his mind and heart will tell
him what to do. I purposely re.
Trained from going into details in my
complaint filed in court SO as to not
to hurt him. I have hoped and still
hope that the filing of the suit will
make him think along the right lines
and do the right thing before II be-
comes necessary for me to go into
details"
II hope 1t will not be necessary
for me to do this. still hope that
Mac will do the right thing. Is this
too much to expect? Should not
nurses expect faithfulness from doc
tors even as doctors expect faithful.
ness from nurses7 Or is a doctor 10
be permitted to beguile a nurse hy
promises OF marriage and then cast
her aside? Has a girl no remedy In
this situation other than prosecution?
But prosecuting the man is not what
she wants when she loves the man
as love DR.. Mckenzie. What the
woman who loves wants is to marry
the man she loves. Though he make
her suffer-though-tho any
thing-as long as she loves she wants
him to become her husband. love
DIR. Mckenzie that way.
- Marriage-Not Money.
II had hoped I would not have to
make any statement to any news
papers-my situation is heartbreak-
ing enough-but the article in The
Times Decoration Day laid % much
stress upon the amount Of money
asked as damages that such article
might create a false impression.
Although I feel that have suffered
and win suffer damages greatly In
excess OF the amount sued for, yet
II is marriage-not money-that !
really want from DR.. McKenzie."
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