Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
HIS SPOUSF,
A Man Deeply SInned Against Stays ais
Faith1ess Wife.

A Man Deeply SInned Against Stays al
Faithless Wife.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 17.--Mrs. Maggi
Mendoza, who deserted her husband, An
tonic L. Mendoza, a barber at the Crane
hotel some time ago, was shot and killed
by him at a lodging house on Suffer street
this morning.
Mrs. Mendoza had left her husband
several times to become an inmate Of
questionable houses, but had been taken
back by him on pr omises OF reform.
She again left him q few weeks ago, and
he found her last night in a lodging house,
where she was living with Albert Larsen.
She resisted all entreat:es to return to
him, SO after remaining with her ali night,
he went out this morning, purchased a
pistol, completed some bushes arrange.
ments, returned to the house and shot his
wife in the temple.
A policeman entered the room a few
minutes later, and found the woman dying
and Mendoza in the act of blowing out his
own brains. The officer prevented him,
and took him to the police station.
Behind the bars Mendoza related the
story ID follows: II proceeded to the
house. and meeting my wife asked her if
she would not return" Maggie" l said,
won't you be good and return? IlQveyo
and will forgive all if o will only come
back. II you think you do not like the
try-any place, if you will only return"
She replied: "Tony, don't ask me to come
back. have fallen and can never rise
again. I don't want to 60 back. You are
too honest for mt, and l am not worthy
of your love. I like fine dresses, etc. Mol
l cannot 60 back" Mendoza said, while
she WA speaking, he noticed a photograph
OF a man named Larsen, who he had heard
mad been keeping company with his wife,
but did not know his first name. Taking
the picture from the frame, he asked his
vile whose picture it was. She replied:
Don't ask me; he is not as good as 1ou."
The conversation closed, and Mendoza re-
manned at the house during the night. He
hoped to get her to return.
This morning he arose and together with
his wife went out to breakfast. She re-
turned to the room and Mendoza came
down town, He said that he had not been
able to induce his wife to live with him
again, and since he could not have her, he
raj determined that she should not keep
company with Larsen, for he would kill her,
kill Larsen in the same way, and then fire
q bullet into his own body. He purchased
a pistol, had bis photograph taken, and
wrote a long letter to his relatives, who re-
side in San Leandro.
The letters he placed in his pocket and
then proceed to his room on Suffer street.
where he had LETT his wife. He entered but
not fasten the door. He implored his
wife again to return, but she was firm and
During the conversation Mendoza learned
hat Larsen was to come and see his wife
about lunch time. 1t was his intention to
wait until Lar EN- came iu, shoot his wife, !
then Larsen, and last himself.
According to the programme, when she
refused his last offer, it is believed from his |
that he was unable to control
and drawing his pistol when close |
TO her. he fired the shot, the ball striking |
her in the left temple.
She fell to the floor and the weapon was |
to his own temple, when the door |
vas sent flying open and an officer bounded |
H., knocked his pistol arm upward, the |
Weapon going off, but doing no damage.