The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
BLIND WIFE PART
 OF NEW TRIANGLE
Forsakes Sightless Hus- band For violinist Who
 Cannot See

Alexander Cameron. a man now of middle age, blind from birth, but. through that undespairing energy and compensating gift of application. able to hold his own among men in the af- fairs of the world, recently told the first story ever heard in the divorce courts of Los Angeles of the. ways of love in the dark, where two blind men engage in the fight for the love of one blind woman--one of the men with a legal claim of home and children, but the other with the stronger appeal of romance and passion, says the Detroit Free Press.
 Cameron came into court with a plea to be granted divorce from Elizabeth NJ. Cameron. and he stood straight and stiff before the judge, a pitiful yet com manding figure, with his chin up when he was called to tell his story. Judge Summerfield, made aware of his afffic- tion. had him take a chair and as he started his story, first bravely and then with hesitation and the pluckiRg at his clothes that bespeaks emotion in the blind. he half sobbed out from his dark world one of the tensest dramas heard in that room of many sorrows. Cameron went back to his birth-- blind, and knowing no other world than that of darkness. He went to school, where his quickened intelligence was fed from books through his fingertips. At the next desk to him was a girl, al- most his own age, and also blind from birth, and they spoke to each other, through their fingertips, as their hands met across the aisle. And when she spoke to him her voice was low and tender and he loved her-the great joy of his life.
 The Third Man Enters
 The pair grew up together and, their sensitive fingers loved to caress the features of one another and his finger in her hair, whose beauty he could sense and feel. And when the. time came they were married and went to live together, and Cameron, blind but talented, went out into the world to make his way. while she remained to make their home.
 Children came, and Cameron, as busy as other men, fancied bis life to be, happy in their own little nest, but soon found that dream shattered. She, had grown cold, had become discontented and told him that she no longer loved him. There was nobody else in her life, but she had tired of the darkness and routine that had gripped her. She wanted life-iife of the kind of which romance is made.
 Cameron pleaded with her, as has many another man, to remain with him for the sake of the children. His hope was that her love would return. She listened to his plea for twenty years, but never did Cameron feel he had won back her love. +.
 Then came Tom Carruthers. blind musician and vagabond. Cameron with sympathy for all blind men, found a place in his heart for Car ruthers, so gay and carefree in their dark world, and who could tell more to the blind than those who could see, stories of his fancies through the music that he made.
 Wife Follows Vagabond
 Carruthers visited the Cameron home, but he was a wanderer and wanted to go out on the streets to play his violin sometimes with his hat before him. Mrs. Cameron listened to his stories and warmed to his protestations of love. She bought little organ that she could play, and set out gypsying with Tom Carruthers.
 Cameron Suffered as other men su1- fer, and he stepped out to find Car ruthers and, his runaway wife.
 ''I heard his violin playing one day. and I knew he was there. Then l heard the notes of the organ and I heard him say, Bessie, dear,' and heard her ah- swer him and her words were like honey. So, walked up to the sound of his violin and said, Tom Carruthers, I am going to square things with you Then I smashed him on the jaw and heard the thud of his body hit the ground and heard her cry. Then I went back. hOme--to my children.
 Soon fter that my wife came home. She was mad with anger, furious be- cause I had struck the man who had betrayed her. She told me she did not love me. Sha knew-betteH than any body-that 1t would hurt and keep on hurting more and more until the end. That seemed to satisfy her and then she left-left home for good, left me and her children.
 Cameron was granted q divorce and the custody of his children.