Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-14
LL BALES HlsToRI.

rbs Wslla Walla Democrat gives Il
-. eketch following of the private his
~, of the festive and amorous L. L
Bs'ss:
rhsre is another chapter in the his
-, of Z. L. Bales, of newspaper fame
@n;ch ~; has inst come to light by Geo
~ Rsles denouncing him to the officers
ssthe garrison as a deserter from troor
p First Cavalry. According to the lat.
IS ACCOUNT, wbich our reporter CLEAN.
II after deal of hard pumping, L. l.
1,lss, alias Tom True, is a half brother
md has always been a little peculiar
49, | 70 saw "crackol." and was forever
sstt;no into scrapes with women and
ssnnealinp to b brother 10 help him out
While vet mere lad he married a girl
N Indisna, bnt c0astancy not being one
If his traits Bales. or rather True, skip
rad ont. and in 1871 joined the First
Cavalry. He tired of army life. and
dnrinc the war with the Modocs in the
lava beds of Oregon, he monnted a
fne government horse and taking his
oun. soon put many miles betwe II him
self and pursuit. He was not got off
so easiIy, however, for in few weeks
Alter. having sold horse aud gun, he
was apprshended, captured and taken
fo Fort Kearney to be tried rs a deser-
ter. Here fortune favored him and he
escaped, walked to Walla Walla and
arrived In q most destitute condition.
Hn brother took him In. fed and cloth
ed him, and soon placed him in a way
of making both ends meet,
The wife of Bales was in the habit of
taking nip of whisky occasionally,
and True learning her failing managed
70 work upon her feelings, and loon &C.
duced her from fidelity to her lawfuI
hueband. Bales found that his wifs
had been tampered with, but had NO
proof. He gave her $500 to take her.
I self and boy to her parents in Iowa.
1xue had many escaDadest in Walla
Walla after this. He took. poison bo-
cause a. prostitute known as Spanish
Nay did not rsciprocate his affections,
and later on.ran away with q sleek look
ing colored girl, daughter of j. b. Nit
chell, the barber. The pair were 'pur-
sued by the paternal parent to Seattle,
vLere they were caught and True COM
p6lled to marry the damsel. notwith-
standing that he had one wife back in
/. the States. Last fall Bales having fah-
en- head over heels in love with Mrs.
Stroman, who officiated as chamber
maid in the Columbia Hotel, and de-
string to obtain a divorce so that he
could marry the new object of his af-
fsctions, he persuaded True to return to
this city to testify in the divorce suit
which had been commenced. The man
Of two wives had been there but short
time when he parted with Mrs. True
lNo. p and took up with a young girl
for whom he soon attempted to COM
NIT suicide on account of unfequited
love. This not having the desired effect
on the stony heart of the maiden, he
gave up the task as bad one. and again
eloped, this time with a widow named
Robinson and Mrs. Stroman, his broth
er's intended. This was more than
Bales could endure, and finding that
his brother had sought shelter from his
wrath in Seattle, he yesterday informed
The officers of the post of the facts re-
garding True's desertion from the army
and steps have been taken looking to.
wards the arrest of the gay Lothario.