May
6, 1915 – Dr. John Olson sat in Judge Leary’s courtroom today
and listened while Thomas Hutchinson, attorney for Miss Maud Mattson, plaintiff
in a $25,000 breach of promise suit brought against Dr. Olson, read aloud the
love letters he alleged to have written to Mattson four years ago.
According to the testimony, Mattson had been a nurse employed by Dr. Olson. They had quarreled early in the summer of 1911 and she had gone away. In the letters Dr. Olson pleaded with her to come back. Over and over he told her of his loneliness. In one letter he told of weeping until the pillows on his bed were wet. Again, the letter told of Dr. Olson’s weeping over his lost love while driving an automobile, narrowly avoiding a collision while driving with tear-dimmed eyes.
According to the testimony, Mattson had been a nurse employed by Dr. Olson. They had quarreled early in the summer of 1911 and she had gone away. In the letters Dr. Olson pleaded with her to come back. Over and over he told her of his loneliness. In one letter he told of weeping until the pillows on his bed were wet. Again, the letter told of Dr. Olson’s weeping over his lost love while driving an automobile, narrowly avoiding a collision while driving with tear-dimmed eyes.
1Over and over again the letters begged forgiveness of the woman and asked her to be reconciled. Mattson, on the witness stand, said she yielded to Dr. Olson’s entreaties and came back to oversee his hospital. “He promised to marry me,” she said. “But he kept putting off the wedding date. He said he was not ready to marry yet. Finally he told me that he had changed his mind.”
On May 13, Mattson was granted a verdict of $1,500 by a jury in district court before Judge Leary in her breach of promise suit against Dr. Olson.
The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; ”The Doctor Wept Bitterly, Letters Show in Nurse’s Breach of Promise Suit”; May 7, 1915; p. 2.
The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Jury Gives Verdict of $1,500 Against Dr. Olson”; May 14, 1915; p. 9.
1https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201403/your-mysterious-tears/
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