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LOVES WIFE DESPITETALK OF NEGRO BLOODCOLLINS WILL REWARD FORMERCORA GLAMORGAN IF FATHERSEPARATES THEM, SHESAYS I«S. Louis, June 16—Cora ClamoreanCollins, the beautiful young E!lend3ieWufe who is said to have negro blood,still loves her white husband in spiteof his renunciation of her in a suit brought by her father to annul their 1j marriage. She is convinced he* stillloves her and John B. Collins, the husband admits it.Mrs. Collins declared today that her husband visited her the night his fath* er first apprised him of the rumors that the Clamprgans were of negro ♦blood, and she further asserts that he remained at her home throughout the night. He again swore his love, she declares, and admonished her to ignore the suit. ‘He pledged that his affections would never cool, and when he attained his majority he would make her his wife again should the present union be annuled.“I have never denied that I* love my wife despite the disclosure that shehas negro blood/' said Collins today, j I do not deny it now. I cannot make a44reconcilliation till I am twenty-one. My father demanded the separation. I have quit my position and I have heardthe neighbors blamed me for leaving 1my wife. That may be right/' I* “The night before John left me/' said Mrs. CoHins, “his fjather came to my home and played for several hours on the porch with the baby. I recall his remark: ‘ Tm just waiting for the time to come when this little lady will pull my coat tails and call me grand-daddy/ Thcci he kissed our child, pressed a ten-dollar bill in its hand and departed.“My husband went to his father's home to thank him for the gift to the child. When he returned i knew something was wrong. He didn’t say a *word till he had kissed me and the baby. Then he told me what his father had leair.ed and of his family's decision that we must separate. Next morning he kissed me goodbye and repeated his promise of fidelity. I believe in his promise and I will carry it in my heart always.
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Logansport Daily Tribune
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 17, 1911
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