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Show PRETTY BRIDE OF THREE WEEKS TELLS PITIFUL TALE OF SUDDEN DESERTION Married less than a month, deserted j and left penniless in a strange community commu-nity more than a thousand miles from her home, and with no means of com-1 munlcating with her parents, is the story told by Mrs. Steve H. Turner, who is staying at the White house. Mrs. Turner was seen today at the hotel by a Telegram reporter who had heard of her misfortune and who called upon her for her story. After I ous. He gave me J8 and told me to go. He was working only four miles from where we lived, but he would not come I to the train with me. ' "I came up here and pretty soon my money was all gone. Then a man gave me 3 and I have a little of it left yet. I haven't any idea what I will do or how I will live after that is gone. "My husband did not accuse me of doing anything wrong, he only got jealous jeal-ous of me and Bred me out. All I have is a few clothes in a grip, and those I am wearing, besides what little is left of the $5 that man gave me. "I would like to go back to my people, peo-ple, but do not know how I can can get the money for my ticket. "I had never quarreled with my husband hus-band end did not give him any cause to fire me out like he did. I want to get a position where I can earn enough to get a ticket for home, as I feel that I will starve here if I don't go where my friends are." much t-olicftatlon Mrs. Turner, who was loath to speak of her unhappy lot, told her story little by little. Mrs. Turner is a young woman of about twenty years, is about five feet In height, and weighs about 151 pounds. Her hair Is a pretty wavy brown, and her eyes are blue. She was dressed in a neat blue walking suit of cheap goods with a pink bodice and her hat was trimmed with pink roses. . As the forlorn bride told her history the tears that could not be restrained streamed down her cheeks. Bit by bit, between her sobs, Mrs. Turner said: "I am Mrs. Steve H. Turner, and my husband is a section foreman on the Oregon Short Line railroad, working in Rush valley. "I met him about a year and a half ago, when he came to my father's place to stop for a while. He had come there to see his father, who was sick. "He stayed there quite a while and I married him on May 24th at my father's house, four and a half miles from Nodaway Station, in Andrew county, Missouri. "We went to Rush valley, where my husband was section foreman and we lived in the section-house. It was my first trip out of Missouri and my first trip on a railroad. "My maiden name was Mary Jane Branch Flemmlng and my father's name is James Flemmlng. We lived In the country and I was not used to all the new things I saw. "We lived at Rush valley two weeks and my husband saw me talking to one of the men there and he got madly JeaJ- ' |