The Washington times., 1922-04-15
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DO is to get married again and
have another nice baby 50 you
won't miss Cecil and 1, but listen,
darling, do watch your step for
your own sake.
''If you ever get any more
money. keep it in your fingers, so
you won't have to always be dog
for, someone else.
''I love the child dearly, as well
as any mother and that's why
am taking him along, so he won't
be abused after mamas gone, You
couldn't be with him all the time,
and you can't trust him in good
care with everybody and this way
you are as freeas you ever were,
and can go where you please, and
won't have baby to hold you down.
But, remember, you are to get
yourself another son and a sweet
one, too, for / agone to guide you
till you do, but don't give up and
get discouraged, because you know
It is very easy. for you will have just
as sweet a baby as you have now and
also a wife.
II hate so to destroy his life,
but you know then he will not live
to see troubles or suffering like
we both have. Now remember that
baby and i are going to guide you
and also talk to you. Baby can't
talk much. but he knows every
thing, so he will talk over there,
believe, to you. Dear, listen, start
in Just as IL you never had been
married.
Promises to Guide Him.
"I will guide you from this day on
and my love will always be right
with you. But don't let yourself get
nervous; just wait and see IL won't
guide right. You are better off, dear.
My health Is no good and never will
be, and God knows what baby would
ever have to face-not a relative aliv-
ing but US. and my health so poor.
Don't ever think of sending our
bodies home, as you know the bodies
after the breath is gone don't amount
20 nothing"
She wrote on the back of a torn
envelopes:
"Oh, how happy we could be to-
gether IL my health would have
stayed right, but, dear, never would
be no better. Put us righe down in
the cheapest way you can. That's
my request, for l want you to have
money left so you won't always have |
to be worked to death.
Now don't have this investigated, |
or nothing, because i am ADDING this |
awful deed myself, and nobody on |
earth is to blame but me. It's an
awful sin to take dear baby's life. /
but / fear he might have a hard life |
always, and he's so young he is bet
ter off. l have marked every page, |
30 goodby forever here-will take to |
you any time. love you, sweet |
heart. From Maude."
'P. S.-Just bury as cheap as |
possible and please dress us by my
request, and lay Cecil on my right |
arm In the casket. And he will rest !
I'm his mothers arms with all the !
hardships here. Oh, how I hate to /
leave you, darling, and take baby. |
too. l don't know II / can ever |
do II or not, but have written you
this big letter and am going to try !
to do the rest. Bye-bye,
"MAUDE FANCHER."
Writes After Taking Poison.
As she awaited death she wrote:
81 have taken poison and have !
given the baby poison.
Dear Harmon-I have always
lived a good true life, and don't
see why me and my baby suffered so.
OF course, they will all want to
know why wasn't brought home.
Tell them II was my request l
shouldn't be, because I don't be-
lieve in such. 1 don't want no fuss
made at all. Bury us in one cas-
ket as 1 told you before.
Don't think this is any dis
grace on your part, for you are as
good a husband as God ever made.
and have never given me one cross
word. And may God bless you,
Darling, and make you so happy.
and / will guide you and help you
TO success. You are going to have
great success from this day on, and
you go ahead as IL nothing had
happened.
please do, dear, for II is my
wish that you go right ahead and
don'5t let this bother you a bit, for
you have good health and nothing
TO worry over. We are both at per
feet rest.
Dear Harmon: 1 have done an
awful sin. but 1 cannot endure my
poor health any longer. Please do
forgive me, everybody de-"
Here her strength failed, and she
relapsed into semi-unconsciousnes