Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa
May 4, 1882

     It is said Kate Shelley, the heroine, is not engaged to be married, but it
is intimated that when the time does come for venturing upon the matrimonial
sea, there was a switchman in the yards at Moingona who was with her in the
sickness following her terrible adventure, and who, although wearing the clothes
of a laborer and carrying a hand crippled in the service of the railroad
company, will probably put in the first and best claim


[C.J.L. Jan 2004]