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Show I saw her with another man, and I have seen hor out with other men often. She has not been square with me. "That girl came to me without, a cent. I have paid her wages and expenses ex-penses and went about In.U winter without an overcoat so that she might have swell clothes. She Is not worth $ a week to me as far as her part in tho act goes, but I like her. I tdl you. : and I want her to have the best of j everything. I always had her stay at i tho best hotels wherever we stopped. ' My pav for the kindnesses I have shown her, at least tried to show her, j has been nothing but repeated snubs, j "I have thought for a long time j that she has been trifling with other ' men, and last nlgbt I made tip my mind to find out what was going on. I went into the toilet room, from where I could look through the keyhole key-hole In the door and watch her room. I had not been looking lon when a man came up the hall. He stopped near her door and looked up and down the hall. Then she came out of the room and they started off together. I tried to contain myself, but something urged mo on. "My head swam as I rushed Into the hall. I trWl hard not to do anything any-thing that I would be sorry for, but my temper got the best of me and I struck the man first and then slapped the girl In the face Then the police came and I was carted over here a'id locked up. "I guess a man will do most anything any-thing when he is In love with a woman. wo-man. "I can't tell yon how miserable I feel this morning. Think of It! I hnvo worked at my profession for ten years trying to make a good name for myself. Now I have knocked everything ev-erything In the head In Wn time than it takes to tell It. I cm inly hope that things can be satisfactorily adjusted all around." Illfill JUNIPER BEATS STAGE STRUCK GIRL I SALT IjAKE, May 12. P.ecaajKe ho believed be-lieved Margaret Canada, his vaudeville partner, had trifled with his affections, Louis Guerlin. said to be the champion high jumper of the world, assaulted lhe girl and beat her on the face and shoulder In tho ball on the third floor of the Wilson hotel aliout 11:30 o'clock last night, as Miss Canada was walt- Jng for the elevator. , Guests at the hotel, hearing the glii cry out, rushed from their rooms Into the hall, half dn-f-sed. A bell boy, evidently evi-dently believing that a murder was being committed, telephoned to tho police that "Everybody i3 being killed " Ouertin was arrested by Motorcycle Policeman Dan Grundvig and Patrol man Hlnton and was locked up iu tho city jail on a charge of assault and battery. Miss Canada went Into hysterics the officers were leading Gucrtln away. She was attended bv a phvslcian. What Girl Says. Wrapped in a dainty little blue kl mona. Margaret Canada took times between be-tween mouthtuls of breakfast, catch rfroui a tray on her bed to tell her side of the story in her room at the Wilson this morning. ;"I Joined . Mr. Guertin in Norfolk, t"a., about seven months ago. He was showing at the Colonial theater. I met him one night after a bunch of us girls had been to the show. Wo were all standing outside of tho theater, thea-ter, chewing gum (please forgive me for that), when a big policeman came along and told us he would put us In Jail if we didn't throw the rum away. We all threw our gum on tho sidewalk. side-walk. Just then Mr. Guertin came along and looked at me and laughed. "I guess he liked me, because later on ho offered nie a chance to co with him in his act. I wanted to go on the staRe, so I ran away from home "My mother lives in Norfolk, and after I had been on the road a few days I wrote to her and told her what I was doiug. 'T went with Mr. Guertin for the money, which I wanted to earn. I never nev-er did care anything for him, although al-though he has told me many times that he thought tho world of me. I have never ?one around with him nor with any other man. All he has ever done for me Is to pay me my wages. Oh, yes, he did give me a couplo of little diamond rings ou ray birthday, but he tore tbem off my finders last night. "Guertin Is a married man and ha a daughter 10 yoars old He has threatened to kill me several times on this trip. Last night about 11.30 I decided to get a bite to eat and I started for the elevator to go down to the cafe. .lust as I walked out of my room Homo man, I never had seen him before, came along tbo hall. I guess Guottln thought we had a. date, because he rushed vip to the man and struck him In the back and then pitched Into me I don't know what would have finally happened lo me If several men hadn't come along and held Guertin until the pullce arrived. "I'm just a kid. and will be only IS years old my next birthday, and I can't see how he could have been so mean. I want to say right hero that I am rus good as any woman that ever walked, no matter what Guertin or any other person says about me. "But no matter what a woman may be I don't think a man has any right to strike her. I will never appear on the siace with Guertin again. If I cin help It." What the Man Says. Guertin, who If. alleged to have beat"n the girl, came to the bars of the corridor of the city jail smiling. ' Well." he said, "I struck Margaret "and the man who war. with her because be-cause I was mad with jealousy and the cirl was making a fool out of me, as sho had done all along the line. '' "I am In love with her and she konws It. I have told her so. I am married, but have plauned on gettln a divorce. It enraged me every time |