Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-18
AROUND THE CITY.
Woes of a Man Who Married
Another Mans Wife.
SHE FLEEs WITH HIS MONEY.
her First Husband Advertised Her
in a Paper-Other Inter-
esting Events.

The popular conundrum Of whether
marriage is a failure has recently beer
the subject of good deal of cogitatior
on the part of Charles Hoffman, q
butcher who lives out on Temple street
No. 728. On the oath of last November
he was welded by the Rev. DR.. Cantine
to young woman who was known az
Abbey Florence Russell. They had
been intimate for q mum DER of monthe
and Hoffman was quite firmly of the
opinion that she would be, in every way,
fitted to form satisfactory partner of his
joys and sorrows throughout the re.
mainder of his life.
One day, about two weeks after they
were married, Hoffman opened up the
San Francisco Chronicle and began to
read it. The news column proving
empty and the editorial matter dull, he
turned to the advertisements for interest
ing reading matter. First of all
he cast his eye over the "Per.
sonals," where very often are to
be found items which start the mind off
on an agreeable tangent of imagina-
ton.
Suddenly his attention was caught by
his wife's name staring him in the face,
and breathless with astonishment he
read the following:
the present whereabouts Of my wife.
southern part of the State aud is going
under the name of Abbey Florence Rus
sell. Anyone sending information will
be literally rewarded.
FRANK JONES,
"31i Post street."
Hoffman laid down the paper and
thought it over. 1t could scarcely be
doubled that the subject of the adver-
tisement was the woman he had married
supposing her to be a proper candidate
for matrimony. He determined, how
ever to wait before taking any decided
action and see what time should bring
forth.
1t soon brought forth something. Re-
turning home one day couple of weeks
later he found his wife lying on the bed
in state of intoxication. Her Ian
guage on that occasion showed very
plainly what her former associations had
been. MIR. Hoffman is q respectable
man, of good standing in the commun-
ity. He has always regarded marriage
as sacred affair, and desired to live up
to the contract, but he did not propose to
submit to an existence with woman of
this class, least of all if she had no claim
upon him.
When the waman "sobered up" there
was what the etorywriters call a "scene."
Hoffman told his wife--if she could be
called by that title-that he could not
live with her if she proposed to behave
in this sort of style, and made clean
breast of the suspicious which the article
in the Chronicle had eDgendered. With
out any hesitation the woman confessed
that che had been married before, and
that her husband was living in San
Francisco.
"But will be good," said she, "and
will stay and live with you If you will
allow me-"
A second time Mr.. Hoffman deferred
action and waited to ponder on the situ-
alton. The final outcome was curious
mixture for him of good and bad for tune.
He came home one day and found the
woman gone. This was a. very satisfac-
tory solution of her part Of the problem,
and to that extent was good luck. But
with her there had disappeared all the
money which he had left in the house,
which happened on this occasion to be
a considerable sum, and quantity Of val
liable articles on which she had managed
to place her hands. This was the end of
the chapter of Mr.. Hoffman's experience
with matrimony, which is now offered to
the public for the edification OF those who
contemplate ex periments Of this kind.