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Show POLICE SEIZE LOVE LETTERS AFTER TRAGEDY Two Planned to Get Rid of Husband, Theory of Officers LOVE LETTER THAT LED TO TROUBLE One of the letters which the London police say Mrs. Kdlth Thompson, held for the .murder of her husband, wrote to her -)-year-old sailor hoy sweetheart: I ' This thing that I am going to do for us both, will it ever inak any difference between us? "Do ou undertsand what 1 I mean" "Will you ever think the lesa of me? "I am not hesitating, darling, through fear of any consequences conse-quences of the action Don't think that. "But 1 would sooner go on in the old way for years and years and retain your respect " BY ,M lll o B1CONJNEU Mv Service Staff Correspondent, i LONDON, Nov. 18. In a pile of "love letters" th police here believe they have revealed how two lovers plotted diabolically to get rid of a! husband who stood In the way. The actors In this tragic triangle: are Edith Thompson. 27. a pretty' mllllr.er; her. husband. Percy Thompson, Thomp-son, a shipping clerk, and the other man, a blond, burly-headed, 20 -year-J old bailor boy, Frederick Bywaters The Thompsons lived In n garden suburb of Ilford not far out .of th-clty. th-clty. The neighbors thought them a! happy and devoted couple, until they; were shocked by the midnight murder mur-der not long ago. A woman's voice cried out for help. It came from a curving, tree-shaded tree-shaded road leading into town. Those who rushed out found Mrm Thompson hysterical. On the curb; (sat her husband, bleeding from many stabs, his head forward dead ATTACKED MYSTERlOl SLY. She said that they had been to a! theatre. While walking home some mysterious person Jumped out from the oradsldo and attacked her Jius-, band. ! The police were not satisfied With her story. Several days later they arrested Mrs Thompson and By-1 I waters. The bo admitted that he 1 had fought With Thompson and had struck him with a knife. But ho! would not explain why Then th-- authorities found Ihe Utters, Ut-ters, which, they say, were written by the woman to the sailor. Whenl 'confronted with these. Bywaters ad-1 mltted that he was the woman's con-! fldant. In one of the letters the wctman! wrote that her husband had been ill ; j from a medicine he took for Insoni-' I ma. she told a neighbor about 11 as if frightened and alarmed "as 1 think It might be useful at some future 1 time thai I had told somebody " In another missive she wrote thai her husband complained about the tea tasting bitter, as If something had been put into It. Then she went 011:1 "Now I think whatever else 1 try It in again will still taste bitter. He' will recognize It and be more sua-' piclous still. And if the Quantity is' not successful. It will Injure another chance I may have of trying when you c'ome home. I "Don't trust him. 1 "1 do not mean don't tell him any-( any-( thing, because I know you never , would. What I mean Is don t Lei j him be suBpiclous of you regarding I that, because If we nre successful In I the action, darling, circumstances I may afterwards make us want many 'friends or helpers. We must have no enemies, or even people who I know a little too much." ENOUGH FOR AN ELEPHANT. I In another letter the wife wrote: "You said it was enough for an elephant. Perhaps it was. but you don't allow for the taste making only ; a small quantity 10 be taken. I was 1 buoyed up with tho hope of the light , globe, and I used a lot big pieces.! 'too. not powdered and It had no ef-I ef-I feet. 1 "i quite expci ted to be able to send 'that cable, but no. nothing has hap-J ' peneil "All that lying, scheming and sub-; sub-; tcrfugfl to obtain one little hour in ' each duy when by right of our love I we would be lotinw for 20 hours J In every day." |