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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1907)
THE DAILY COOS1 BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1907. mmmmmmmtmmmmmmmimmmtmmmmmimnmm $& m '5o S3 YOU CAN NOW HAVE A PIANO IN YOUR. HOME. Victor and Columbia TalSring Machines $5. Down and $1 per week. You will iever miss the money. We want your trade and we are fully prepared to satisfy you in everything in our line. The World's Famous Pianos, the Victor and Columbia Talking Machines, two of the best machines manufactured. We keep in close touch with the Eastern manu facturers and always have on hand the very latest Records and Song Hits of the season. Our Pianos are the Eest, Our Payments are the Easiest and our Prices are the lowest V 8 H H Whenever you see the name of Chickering & Son, Weber, Hardman,Kimball or Hobart M. Cable on the fall board of a Piano g this is sufficient guarantee that you are buying a good instrument. H If you were to buy a Piano and pay from $500 to $600 for it, wouldn't you rather buy some well known make? THEN S WHY NO 1' S rUF AND COUNT THE MAKES LEGITIMATELY SOLD AT THESE PRICES? It don't take long. About as many seconds as you have fingers on one hand. And we are selling them at prices ranging from ward. Second and third grade Pianos never sell for such high prices, unless the dealer takes unfair advantage of his customer. Chickering, Weber and Hardman Pianos we defy the world to produce one superior in merit. We have other good Pianos in prices from . . We Earnestly Invite Your $450 and up In our ranging OEtti p $200 and upward. ,lwMoSo$$3So$&&4--t'' t ZZ tZttt tt$Z$t$tZtttt$ ZZZc$4Z4&6$Z5Z$fZ4 oo$ 50K &0 mwmn WHITLOW CONFESSION (Continued from page 2.) else, and that she could not go out of her own house, could not go down town, could not and would not go to church If she could get out of It. Said she was simply going crazy, wild, and she would not live If I did not go with her. "I prayed night and day that she would change and go Into society and go with young men and be hap py. And I begged her to do that. But she mado her visits more fre quent and became more daring and more persistent. She began threat ening to kill herself on my porch and all such horrible things. Threatened to kill my wife. Threatened to kill hersplf In my house tluio and time again. "I was at my wits' end to know what to do. I was afraid when I was late getting home, lest I should find her or my wife dead there. I suf fered untold misery, and it kept me busy deceiving my wife about the noises about the house. "My wife slept in ono bedroom and I in another, and Miss Sapp would scratch on my screen until I'd go to the window and usually I would have to go out and sit there till midnight before she would go or allow me to go in, all this time telling me what dreadful things she would do if I did not leave my family and go with her. I tried every way I could think of to prevent anything that would cast sorrow on her folks and mine, and re peated the awfulness of it to her until I despaired. "I sometimes thought I'd go to her parents and tell them, but dreaded the task and put It off, hoping sho would chango and let me alone. She would leave her house after her pa rents were asleep and climb down the front porch post and return by climb ing upon the well curb and onto the south porch and enter at a window. "My wife often asked me about certain sounds and if I were out of the house, and I could not tell her the truth for fear that she would watch for her and see who it was and tell her folks. When sho heard I was about to sell the dray she came down and said if I undertook to leave she would kill herself, for unless sho saw me every day on that wagon she would not live. She said that if for a single day I left that wagon she would come and rub her blood on ev erything wo had. "Oh, these awful things made my heart sick and for eight months I have lived In a horrible fear. I tried to act at home and at work as If nothing was wrong, but when alone I prayed for deliverance. "Ono rainy night she kept mo standing out by the house until after midnight, and I took that severe rheumatism the next morning. If I would try to go In she would say sho would go In and kill herself and I could not persuade her to leave. She would say that she could not stay at home and sleep a wink and that she was going to stay .right there till morning. No pleading would avail anything. Son Saw Her One Night. "The evening that she heard I was going to sell out she stayed a long time and in vain I tried to get her to go. "I finally wont into bed and pre tended to sleep. She kept knocking and scratching at my window until sho awakened my boy and I was beg ging her to go away when he woke up I spoke to him and told him to be good and he cried and asked me what lady I was talking to. "I tried to quiet him by telling him that he was dreaming, but he still cried and said that I was telling her to go away and he wanted me to make her go. "Ho got up and looked at her, he could see her cape, but did not see her face. I told him not to tell his mamma, because she was so nervous and she would be afraid. He looked so sad next day and cried some. "After he had seen her there she went away from the window and I fell asleep but Hollidge did not, and after awhile she returned and pound ed against the screen and he was so scared that he sprang up and hal lowed "go away," and I woke up and wont out and told her to please go. "I said Hollidge has seen you and ho is afraid and she said she did not care and that she did it on purpose, but said she would go now, but if she did not see mo the next day sho would bo back. She always said that sho would be back every night and every nigWt. "So on the Tuessday evening that I had given up the dray, I was tremb ling with fear, and got my wife and children off to bed and I was afraid to go to bed. "I stepped out on the kitchen porch and out on the steps to see If I really heard anyone and as I stepped off the porch there was Miss Sapp flourishing a razor desperately. "Sho declared that she had come to do what she had said she would do and she waived It frantically and ut tered awful .threats and as I tried to speak sho slashed mo across the hand. I went to Dr. De Long the .. .nn-nir.fy ond hnrl it dressed. In UUAt W1U1 lfc .. -- -- order to shield the real cause I told that I cut It on a scythe. ' "She went through a lot of tan trums as sho had many times before, only more desperately this time. She would pound the ground with the razor and flash It dreadfully close to my face and once she hacked her tunt till 1. bled a little. Sho UY1. HHWMV v... would pull her hair and pound her self on the head. "All my begging and pleading was in vain. I went off to the woodpile by the alley and sat down and prayed and watched, for she would walk back and forth about the yard by the house, sometimes pretending to start "About midnight she came out where I was and sat down. I did not speak and there we sat for a long time. I flnaly started out into the alley and she came after me and be gan telling her Intentions of killing herself. "I pleaded wlh her as I had a hundred times, I presume, to give it all up, that sho could have anything she wanted at home and that she could get plenty of good, nice men that would be glad to get her. But, alas, she would scoff the idea and said, as always before, that she nev er would care for anyone el3e and that sho wished that she was dead. This kind of talk continued, I trying io persuade her to go, and sho would not. It was bright moon light, and her animated talk at tracted the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Rees, who listened, and Mr. Ree3 came out to his alley, and finally I saw him, and said: "There is Mr.. l?ees now, watching." I said, "Come I'll go part way with you." "We went north to the railroad, and I returned home. Mr. Rees call ed me to the door, and told me of seeing a man and woman. I tried to deceive everyone in regard to this. I went to her fence every evening after and begged her not to como buck; that my wife and all the neighbors were in a ferment about the alley affair. "Sho accused me of trying to scare her 'to keep her away, and de-' clared she would not live any longer. She said she would come to me the next night, and if 3he did not see mo she would end it all. Has Vision of the Tragedy. "I was afraid she would, so I hur ried up there Friday night and sig naled her that I was there. Sho came out to the alley, and I told her that I had told my wife the whole business, and now we must stop; that I could not see her any moro. "Sho wanted me to come Into the garden to talk, where we would not bo seen. She then said sho would die thoro, and drew the razor, and with a shriek slashed her throat. At the same time I sprang forward and seized the razor to prevent her, but It only made the attempt worse. As I seized It from her I think she cut her hands. As I seized thei razor from her she tured and foil. I In terror ran out, and with agony of spirit I ran homo. "When there at the yard I real ized that I still held her razor, and not thinking what to do, washed It off and dropped It in my pocket and went In the hpuse, told tho family I heard screams and would go. So I ran back and threw her razor down where it was found. "This Incident with all my former trouble, Is more than I caro to re member, and I must leave this life. No ono over lived who loved his wife pnd family better than I do mlno, and I have a host of relatives that will be brokenhearted. Rut I did everything In my power that I could 4 frf xfr GO CO o x K ftA4M6aV646AAw.fiAAAA6AAMft66li4)6M O JUST TO REMIND YOU That We are Exclusive Paint Dealers, Wholesale and Retail; That You Need Paint and Wall Paper; That We haye the Largest Store and the Largest and Best Selected Stock on the Bay; That Our 10, 15, 20, and 25 cent Double Roll Wall Paper can't be beat; That Our Goods are the Best and Prices the Lowest; That We Deliver Anywhere on the Bay; hat If You can not Call on Us let Us Know and We will Call on You with Samples and Prices; That We can Save You Money if You give Us a chance, BAYSIDE PAINT CO. F. I-:. MONROE, Manager. Phone 1251 Worth Bend, Ore. Sherman Ave. rAAAA.v,f$v'$$$$.??$$$'$$$$r MOWWO'ftWVWWW,VWW0' fc4KK . n ! 0 " rtagigiauaujLjyiijitgijiiayAJMmgjaionrgrrTTvyrTTTTrawggfaagafciuisii.'nr'j'ij'i-ifnri.' think of to prevent the unhappy girl doing the way she did. I was so sorry for her people. I often told her how it would kill them for her to do that, but she said she would be dead; it would not matter to her. This is the awfulest thing that oer could ue connected with nn In nocent man, and one upon whom all this trouble has been forced against his will. May God be merciful to the unfortunate. I have not told half, but it is all about tho Dame, So good -by. S. P. WHITLOW. Postscript to Statement. P. S. There are so many things I have forgotten to say that I wish mention a few in addition to the fore going statement. Beforo Miss May Sapp found out in which part of the (house I slept In and that my wife slept in another room, she did not make any noise to attract attention, but would move half a dozen articles about tho yard so that I would know that she had been there. Sometimes she would set a Jug on the front porch, sometimes put It In the rain barrel and several times twisted bunches of her hair on tho screen knobs. These I did not find rnd my wife found them and won dered what It could mean and It wor ried her so much. Every morning I would put things In order. I deceived my wlfo by every means I could devise In order to keep tho awful thing from becoming known by my folks and by Miss Sapp'a folks. I did not want her people to know how sho was doing, for I knew It would nearly kill them and I thought If I could keep It quiet awhllo maybo I could get away. I planned many times to leave, but could not get ready In tlmo. Sho al ways Bald If I undertook to leave sho I "CRYSTAL" 'S3STT1 Two C&aikges This Week. Monday and Thursday Performances 7:30 and 9 p. m. Matinee Saturday 3:30. Admissiosf Ten Cents. EEEsnzEafsaaasEKasfca LgllL:"pJ.y.'S nmKj:::Kttua:tm:;u4njtuK:tmtnttt:n: ! EvervUiliia Klcctrical at It Oregon Electrical Supply Co. g W New O'UottnolI JUlc. it jmmmnnmttmn:tuniKttm:n:ttrmnj:mtu would dash her blood In our faces be fore wo could get away. Sho would say. If I slipped off sho would como and kill, herself and my wife, too. Sho told mo Tuesday night that sho had come to show mo that sho would do what she said sho would and that she had left a note In her room toll ing her folks not to bring any preach er Into the house. All these facts I never would have told if It was not to protect my dear, Innocent ones from what may bo im posed on me. S. F. WHITLOW. Frcbh Crabs Daily. Wo also havo two fishermen to supply us with Fresh Fish ovory day, Including deep sea fish, mussels and clams, when they aro to bo had. Tho Ellorby market, No. Front St. Four dollars for tho first hour and reduced rates for a longer tlmo. j See Mr. Androws at tho Coos Bay I Transportation office. A streot dock. ,111s automobile Is for hlro. The Dull Scholar HHmJKtL'' Miiny n so-called dull scholar is so hoc. use of bonie defect of tho oyes. Don't neglect tho eyes of your children. Itrlng them In and if there is no error mo will tell you so. f. J. HAYES, Optometrist. Nearly Hearty for Ii.isuicsa. Cnvanaugh and unapmnn are nearly ready to open their machine shop at the south end of tho Smith Co. retail yard, just off Broadway, they havo their machinery on hand and aro arranging It. A. B, Daly, of tho Willamette Iron and Steel works, delivered tho machinery three days after ho resolved tho older.