Show URS MRS STORY THE LADY WHOSE ACTS INVOLVED THE WHOLE ARMY she sh win was not no tile tho cadullo of th 0 B 0 I 1 n engagement of miss A lilt bit tor ter injustice JUstice mix nim 6 unpopularity the HUC OD OB r I 1 e ns na charming wife the L indirect cause came ot of r e q capt rom R 0 m e 3 y ns court martial and sentence of 0 dismissal 1 I from the united ozy 77 states army arm y maintained absolute if silence during the long trial bul buc she gave to the writer the hist full and frank statement that has been made of her side of the famous case which has agitated the united states army she is a little woman her manner is captivating her conversation shows education and culture As she spoke with fervor ana earnestness she abe looked fondly upon her husband who was pacing up and down the porch its a hard situation said obrien len in which I 1 find myself the case should never have gone to a court but should have been settled in another and more effective way I 1 at first felt that physical redress exacted by a man of thirty three from one of sixty three would have been criticised criticized yet now I 1 wish that I 1 had forgotten that capt romeyn was sixty when I 1 first came to the post said mrs obrien len mrs romeyn visited me and said that the bach bachelor VIor officers at al fort mcpherson were horrid they did not dance with the married women and they dij did not call on them I 1 thought it was queer because I 1 had A 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 ial I 1 1 I le r ma I 1 I 1 Z F iolj I 1 WIFE always found bachelors in the army to be nice to married ladies the bachelors called at it our quarters and always danced with me inc but capt Ron romeyne Ro leyns wife said that some of the married ladles would not go to the hops any mors more I 1 sald said well if I 1 went to the hops and tach bachelors elors did not dance with me I 1 would stay slay at home but I 1 certainly would not talk about it mrs martin and mrs kalk both said the same thing the bachelors were nvere nice mice to me and nice to a young girl who visited me during the winter I 1 invited the bachelors to my house to dinner for my guest and they were always nice as was natural mr bamford and mr obrien have always been good friends when mr bamford and mr shaw stopped housekeeping mr Dami oid came to our house to mess in III january miss romeyn romey homey n announced that she was nas engaged to 10 mr bamford Bam tord which was tile the foundation of all the trouble ahrn mr obrien spoke to mr bankford Ba about it he lid did not deny it but gave mr obrien very clearly to understand that lie he was not engaged to her mr arid and I 1 had frequently ridden and dan danced cd together before this engagement mas announced more so before its announcement than after mrs komeyo nias nas quite friendly all the time and on christmas eve capt walked to tom ton it with me mrs canie came ionic home front from the east the latter pait of Jani january iary and mr air obrien and I 1 called on her mr bamford went to miss aliss rc meyn and will told her that she must set him right in it this garrison and say that the engagement which she had announce announced I was broken off on this site she refused ic to ilo do then came till this ge getiman which was a post affair that night at the german I 1 danced with mr bamford slid and mrs romeyn cut mr it and in mp wit out she did not uit cut mr dam bain ford which aich eveia one in the room thought was barange bt range the next jay day capt romeyn publicly said that I 1 hall been cut by all of the ladies of ilic post po st on account of 0 my behavior mr obrien went at al once to his captain of 0 course took ills his advice and demanded that capt romeyn make a public apology this capt romeyn refused mr obrien oark n went to dr taylor and asked him as to Ro romeyne physical condition as lie ho intended to cowhide capt romeyn the doctor told him that it would never do as aa it would result fatally to romeyn this forced my husband to take legal act tion official charges being ills his only recourse mr obrien hoped that an inspector would be sent seat and capt ronleyn romeyn retired at once ile he did not want a court martial now in fit this court tle ladies who testified were women with whom I 1 have been on oil merely formal terms women who had themselves complained that the laeh clors were not nice to them being lacking in gallantry with capt romeyn it was simply a question ot of getting his daughter nina married before he retired ho he liked bamford Dain ford and wanted him to marry miss romeyn I 1 had formally given hops to which miss was invited ted and the men used ascii to drav straws as to who should take her tor for sh she was not a favorite I 1 think it a pretty good indication of 0 tho the whole thang that captain romeyn was only supported by men who had known him a short time and all the other officers olTi cera of the regiment took the other side the singular feature of 0 the court martial was that it drifted away from the trial of an officer charged with conduct unbecoming a gentleman to attack the character and motives of a woman who was not on trial who had no part in it and yet who was wade made to bear the brunt of 0 the se sc adal it if the evidence there given should be permitted to stand unanswered it would mould appear that she was the accused it was a case in which my name was bandied about i atit I 1 and not cal captain eatn romeyn seemed to be the one 0 on n trial here was a court martial comp composed ased or of officers of the united states army listening to petty stories idle gossip whose repetition could not have been tolerated in any civil court there are in every army posts or of course two classes ot of women as there are in fit every other station of life ono one keeps postel posted reads read magazines and tak hakea p pleasure basure in intellectual pursuits and in the prevailing forms of exercise there is the other composed of 0 mere housekeeping drudges reading neither newspapers nor magazines taking no interest in public affairs but contenting themselves with the idle gossip speaking over tile the back fences as you might say to each other about those who do not notice them those people rely for their mental pabulum upon the most idle of gossip and are the ready victims of servants who carry tales from house to house |