Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-14
"a PLEASANT ROMANCE"

"a PLEASANT ROMANCE"
but the End ts Gall and bitterness
to All.
On the 10th of last July a morning
paper published, under double headlines,
running like this.
"a PLEASANT ROMANCE"
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER MADE HAPPY"
A little story, of which the important
parts were as follows:
"Mrs. F. d. Allen used to run the New
Natick House on Los Angeles street.
Mrs. Allen has a daughter. She is Is,
and is as pretty as picture. Mrs. Alien
ls a pronounced brunette. Among the
boarders at the New Natick were Lewis
Supple and Thomas M. Baylis. They
were we'll liked by everybody but q
brother of Mrs. Allen, who, by the way,
had slight interest in the hotel. For
some inexplicable reason he did NOT
take kindly to these two young gen.
tlemen, and contrived to get up q
quarrel which resulted in their leav-
ing the house, much to the chagrin of
Mrs. Allen and her charming daughter.
At all events Mrs. Allen bought out her
brothers. interest in the New Natick, and
the Messrs. Supple and Baylis came back
again.
"On the 11th day of July licenses were
taken out to we'd by the following
named: Lewis Supple, aged 27, and q
native of Louisiana, to Miss Mabelle
Allen; Thomas M. Baylis, aged 25, q ma
tive of Indiana, to Mrs. F. D. Allen.
Needless to state, Mrs. Allen was the
landlady of the New Natick and Miss
Mabelle was her daughter. The BRIDE
grooms were the young boarders whom
q heartless brother of Mrs. Allen had
once upon time ejscted-but who
laughs last laughs best.
"Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Supple and Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Bsylis are now enjoy
ing the honeymoon, and 'all's we'll that
ends well.'"
Mr.. Supple and his blushing bride
went to San Diego to spend their honey
moon, and returned home on the 18th or
18th of July. The young lady was as
afectionate as young women usually are
under like circumstances, until after the
arrival of herself and her husband at San
Diego. Here she developed the strong
est sort of aversion to him. This revul-
sion continued until and after their re-
turn. All this Mr.. Supple endured with
quiet patience, hoping that time would
wear it off. Then when this did not take
place, but when the aversion seemed to
be intensified, he spoke to her mother.
The bride said the marital relations
were loathsome to her.
On the 2lst Supple left this city to go
to Louisiana to attend to some business
for his brother. While absent he wrote
to his wife about her feelings and about
his return. She wrote him one long let
Ter, in which she is very plain in her
statement of views. She will make no
promise, she uses no word that would in
dictate the least bit of wifely affection.
She throws all the responsibility of the
future on him. She tells him of her
peculiar experience, being a married
woman and yet knowing nothing by ex-
perience of the marital relations. Supple
wrote her fully in answer to this letter.
He breathes in every word of it deep
and abiding affection for her, desire
to renew their proper relations,
and a hope that she will find
lit in her power to live with him as
wife should. Some time later Supple re-
turned to this city to see his brother,
who is very ill. When he arrived here
he went to his wife, and they were to-
gether three or four days. But strange
stories reached the husbands ears. The
result OF it was that he taxed her with
undue familiarity with young man
named Guy Hufford, who works in
small store on Second street. Supple al
leges that on the night of his departure
}had an agreement to go to church to-
fno h1t hn iv1t onfa faI
this. He says that the night he departed
at a late hour Hufford went to his wife's
room, and that they fondled each other
at that time and place. It was August
9TH when he got back from New Orleans.
He went to San Diego to see his brother.
and returned on tie 11th. He taxed
Hufford with being familiar with his
wife, and with being criminally intimate
with her. Hufford confessed everything
excepting the criminal intimacy. Sup
pie then brought these charges home to
his wife, but she denied it all. Tnen he
brought her face to face with Hufford and
| she owned up. Mr.. Supple says she had
told her mother, and also Bsylis
all, and promised to confess everything
to him, and that che was to do it the
very night he charged her with
/ being unfaithful to her marriage VOWS.
So the end of this pleasant romance is
that today in Department Of the Supe-
rior Court the issue will be tried on an
application for divorce made by Lewis
Supple to have the bonds of matrimony
between him and Mabelle Supple. nee
Allen, dissolved. The ground alleged
is adultery, said to have been
committed between said Mabelle Supple,
ME Allen, and Guy Hufford The wit
nesses for the prosecution will be Hufford,
Mrs. Watson Of the Girls Home, in
whose care the girl is, and to whom
Supple says his wife made a confession,
a Mr.. McClelland, who is friend Of
Hufford, and who works in the Baker
Iron Works, to whom Hufford is alleged
to have confided his amorous conquest,
A: Georgel and T. M. Baylis. The case