The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-18
THE DESERTED WIFE.
Mrs. Alice Clifford Tells the
Story Of Her Life and
THE DUPLICITY OF THE HUSBAND.
She FOndly and FOOlishly Believed in His
PrOtestatiOns of Love and Fidelity,
and He Basely Betrayed Her.

Especial TO THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
NEW YORK, Dec 17.-Mrs. Alice Clifford
did not return yesterday afternoon to her
fathers house at Fort Lee. The father
said: THAT was cruel way to treat my
poor little daughter, and that man will
surely be brought to punishment can
well remember with what pride he intro
duced her as his wife to all my friends and
how lovingly she confided in him. When
first we read the terrible story of his mar
riage to Miss Thurman we carried the
news all day, fearing to tell her. At last
when her stepmother did break it as
gently as possible, the poor thing tainted
and we had to watch her for three nights
for fear she would kill herself
The old gentleman talked on in wild,
rambling sort of way in his native language
intrspersed with the few English W ords he
knew. The reporter indingi it impossible
to learn the Whereabouts of Mrs. Clifford
from her parents r, turned to the city.
Some one said that he saw her alight from
an elevated station AT Twenty eight street
and walked to Twenty seventh between
Seventh and Eighth avenue.
The wife was found at the home Of Mrs
August Dissaux, 226 Twenty seventh
street.
"Oh sir" she said, 81 did not want to
say anything more about this unfortunate
affair. have taken up the burden of life
myself and am trying to make living.
My father is too poor to provide for me, to
say nothing of my two little boys. So
ran of partly to get away from inquiry and
- ly to get something to do. But / walked
over the streets of New York al day through
the mud and met with nothing bat
III
Mr.. Clifford in New York city. Yes, in
deed. First 1 came here with him three
years ago but we remained here only
short time, hurrying through to my fathers
home at Fort Lee The next time it was
over year when we stopped all the time,
about two weeks, at the house where Gift
ford lived when bachelor. We had
back parlor on the second floor at 80 Six
teenth street Soon after we had gone to
the house Clifford called me down. and
stepping up to the .landlady said: This is
my wife. We went out great deal both
TO my friends and his. and to all of them
he spoke Of me as his wife. And such l
knew they all thought me- In California
he took me to Spanish ball one night, and
20 everyone there he introduced me as his
wife. JOsepa S. Schleiden, Mr.. Gifford's
employer at San Francisco; DR.. Bazet, of
Garry street; Fred Schwartse, godfather
VI Jul 1IbllC OA4IlS anu 4N1L .. I1luElC NnuT-
dock, Of Coronado Beach, were all told by
him 1 was his wife. His letters to me
were all to my d, ar Alice, or my dear wife
Many Of these letters he managed TO de-
stroy. In fact, recently, whenever he
could get hold of any letters to me he
would destroy them l now see, what l
did not then, the reason of his desire for
their destruction. Many of them, how
ever, / stln retain. One. 1 remember is
from his father at Pau, France. In that
the wrieer says: Give my love to your
wife and children,' so he had evidently
told him l was his wife. When ran away
with him from this city he told me if l
would go with him he would marry me
and that was the only condition on which
went. Whenever afterwards spoke of
the marriage ceremony he would say, we
are married, For he did not believe in relig-
ious ceremonies. always considered my
self his wife and he always told me to
80 deport myself. 1 am his
wife and the mother of his two children |
What will do9 Well, ask for nothing |
for myself, only something for his two |
children, and them he must, and shall, sup !
port" All the New York people spoken Of |
by Mrs Clifford as having met her as the |
wife of Thomas S. Clifford, so considered
her. With the exception of Camille La
vile, all were seen by your reporter and
fully cOrroborated Mrs. Gifford's state
ments.