Show RITER'S V DAUGHTER TELLS OF TROUBLES Jessamy Harte Harle Steele Says Husbands Husband's Cruelty Drove Her to Almshouse New w York Fel Feb in 11 Mrs hone Steele Stele daughter ht hf Harte Harle today gave to a reporter for the tho I th Ih the firt Interview concernIng concern concern- log Ing h her r rec recent nt vicissitude since Ince sh left th the In tn Portland a a. wc week ago Although she shet to t not registered anti and was r ted rte to have left the lintel Hotel Martha Washington where here she h went on her arrival arril In iii New York Mrs Ir Steele Stet remains there occupying room on th theo the ninth Moor So much und undesirable publicity ha lisa been given to me and my unfortunate affairs affairs' aId s-aid Mrs Steele that T I hanot have ha not made it worse orse by talking with newspaper paper people 1 I SR am aln anxious though since so mu much h has ha been told that the lie truth of uC the tire matter should be known I I u IViS rust Cruel rustI I 1 was atas forced into the situation of oC I being sent ent to the city hospital In Portland through h the brutality of ot my husband That anti and nothing more For a q long time he treated 1 me In a away away away way that no w woman man worthy eif of the name could or would stand anti and I was wasI I absolutely forced to leave him lid He H has haR tried In Iii ever every way VRY to compel me meto meto meto to return to him hesitating h at am noth noth- ing V JI He told m me ins that such a R. aline time line he would not give ono one penny toward t my support That was wa a year ago and anti he has huts kept Ills word vord If UIt I had b become come Indebted In a modern tow town possibly little would have hao been thought ht of the matter A AIt As AsIt AsIt It was though I was as doubly unfortunate In owing 00 In a town lown like Portland Me I might as ns well have owed a million 8 as six Ix hundred dollars dol dol- lure lars the there there- 1 The matter Would not lot have been looked upon as a t greater eater crime I say crime c because every y one omie there Pert serials seems to think It was wn such If I had hadnot not riot he been n III too ton I would Cr have owed iVed so o much I wan smitten with lh fever and unable to lo attend to lo either cither m my literary work or Ul my par pur- parlor lor br entertaining V illness s Cat Caused i ceil c. In the stories H the they have told lold about my being heinK Insane ne and one of or my Bret ham Harto evenings R proving a n. on this account they y have hav not nut told hill how h ill 1 I Wax was at It iut that particular 1 ut or UI- that 1 I hall hail alvi hIa n vIni vc sue suc- t e ones before e tint that V V I ilo hOt think my tunes lIa have ve so sit greater grater t I than ha II 1 those oC uC many others in Iii the II beginning of a n literary caret career It Is ii aiWa alV a II lIU bU tom struggle sli and them ther rn-c rn many trials auth set hu k 1 1 ama kt- kt zm a through though h. h and will ill pro v- v t- t It II Amon oth r l' I have hav just jUHt completed a n dramatization of or Thankful I 01 ono one of nr my r fathers father's which ha Ida 1 I have reason on to o tc will soon be 10 I 1 it td mired r I havo tI Ii finished 1 nish od a land and sold some les I I have il eu in heln n i My ly ss tJI 9 Iott Maine At l the New Now Yolk Public ami Time Actions 11 anti and the lit lalla J r V V ug nt has leon so Nn kind to tt Tn inc I 1 have ha returned to to New Nevi Yori YUIl that I am V t I I havo man annie V f i here My ty ono onn It Ita is thai uha my ally H i Pal hUlt to-po to to 1 i 1 n orn p n vr 1 nu l 10 ir Mis 1 I Fit tu n IN m. m lin h-a- h l t I tOld O Old xit 0 H l M HilI in III Ali AI AliI I I really ideally dl l not when I area wm tir t taken to 0 it the he city ho ii If Portland V I ha hat l the ama the Ire us U-I time till almshouse They promised d JIll alit that hat 1 I would bo be treated like HUo a lady Indy though h. and amid i as it aM t I fV h hove have Vf enough h hout out of or tile the th to pay for a n private room I r fared arch cr very well Of or all the Ih trouble in lam COr and humiliation though 1 mu muil l say t that It Is 5 worth tim It to In be away avay from the tue man nian who wilt beat boo t V mo mo roe and treated me rue in luVi the tire most brutal anti and inhuman manner that ever r an any woman oman of oC r- r try ry 1 and auth Lre breeding was wa treated I J would cheerfully go JiO o through it all again but I am am nm sure I can with Just a u little aid old in the early earl oarl sti struggle l 4 |