Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-29

with Pancho PIco; the next day
Mr.. Forster went to San Francisco;
while he wa, in San Francisco he
wrote me, asking for another pic
ture of myself; l sent it to him; he
stayed there o month, and he then
wrote me q letter, urging me to
wait and marry him; l answered
him, stating that my mother wish
ed me to marry Ramirez; he an
swered me not to do that; he would
be here in q month; then, when he
came from San Francisco, he sent
me bouquet; he called with Mr..
| Pedrorena and Covarrubias at my
house to see me; then he called
several times alone; then, one day
when / aud my sister were in the
parlor, he asked me to take ride
with him; 1 declined, unless l could
have the consent of mother; mother
came into the parlor; he asked her
permission for me to ride with him
in @ buggy; then my mother told
him that had never ridden alone
with any young gentleman and
she told him she would not give
her consent for me to ride with any
young gentleman alone until after
l was married and then l could go
with whoever L chose; Mr.. Forster
said, 81 want to marry her; L want
to be happy" Consequently he
left without me; 1 did not see him
for about three months after this;
then he came to the house with a
serenading party consisting Of Mr..
De Cells and Mr.. Arevalo to seren.
ade me; at this time he insisted
that L should marry him and
should not marry Ramirez; |
made him no decided answer;
he left then and went to Tucson;
while he was there 1 wrote him u
letter, in which L said, "ff you
don't come soon, l will marry Mr..
Ramirez, and L don't want to-"
then he wrote me in reply to wait
for him, as he wanted to marry me;
then he came from Tucson and my
mother forbid him the house, be-
cause 1 was going to marry Mr..
Ramirez; after Forster was forbid
the house by mother he sent me a
bouquet, with letter, in which he
said your mother has forbidden me
the house and does not wish you to
marry me, but in this way we can
marry each other; We can go away
from tho house together; | de-
stroyed the notes, because | did not
want my mother TO see them; after
my mother had forbidden him the
house he came again to the house,
and told me he was going to Tue
son, and when he returned from
Tucson that L was to go away with
| him; l said [ would not go away
with you unless you marry me;
he says as soon as you leave the
house [ am going to marry YOU
then lie went to Tucson; he then re-
| turned and came to see me on
| Wednesday, and asked me II |
would go away with him to marry
him; I said don't know; my sister
was in the parlor with me; my
mother was in the kitchen; at
o'clock on Wednesday evening he
sent Reynolds with carriage;
whe1 Reynolds came l gave him II
letter for Forster, in which l told
him 1 would go away with him on
Friday if he came himself in the
carriage for me, and would at once
marry me; then Reynolds came
back the same night and brought
me u letter from Forster In which
Forster said "Come quick, L am
waiting for you, don't be afraid, l
am going to marry YOU" | have
that note; producing it and trans
lations;l l said to Rey nolds to tell
Forster / could not go on that
night, but would go on Friday
night sure; then Friday Mr.. Fors-
ter came at II NJ, and Mr.. Pho Pico
was there at our house, aud
then he siaid there only five min.
utes and went away, met him on
the porch when he came; he asked
me il I was going away with him
that evening, anu showed me the
license and said he was going TO
marry me, and J told him yes, l
would go; he came that evening at
$3.50 In front of our house on pG-
commun street, with o carriage; |
then went to the carriage with
him; then he took me down to the
new depot, where we stopped few
minutes, did not get out, we then
we got there Mr.. Forster got out
and went in, then rotu1ned, saying
the lady OF the house was not there;
then we drove to Spring street, and
stopped at place, l don't know
where We stopped then, but Eorstef
got out, then came lack to the car
riagel we then drove back to the
Moiso House; he got out of the car
riage and went in; l remained In
the carriage; he came back for me
and then took mo into the hotel,
and we then went to room: he
staid there few minutes; then
told him, ~ want you to so at
once ana get some one to marry
us;" he went out saying, "All
right, I am going now to get some
one to marry us;" then about IL
o'clock he came back alone, and
told me he could net get any
ono, ne was toe late;
was surprised and commenced
to cry and sald what am
I going to do, you see what you
have done; he told me 1t would be
just the same tomorrow, we ars
just the same as If We ere married;
he offered &c kiss me, and L told
him oh, ,and he tried to embrace
me and 1 repelled him; he undress
ed and went to bed, first looking
the door and took the keyi he then
asked me to go to bed with him
but / told him ! weuld not do that
WQull mt 90 to had with hin