Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-17

and she left my house for the city with
the baby. / took them both back, and
at her request we passed the child off as
our own. gave her 800 with which to
buy a milch COW and e raised it between
US. That is the child sitting there
(pointing at Malta, who was weeping
profusely.) She grew up TO be very
fine child, and | was proud of her. l
gave her my name, and took the best
care of her l could. Two or three years
later was plunged into poverty, owing
to undertaking a fight with the Governor
of the State, which proved more than
bargained for. My wife didn't like pow
erty, and just about that time took q
gentleman into my house as q
'roomer.' After while the child
came to me and told me that the man
had given her doll, and was looking at
the lace on my wife's petticoat. grew
suspicious and found her untrue. Two
weeks later l invited two friends to the
house in the evening, and after supper
kissed my wife good. d.bye' and left them
both together. l told him that l had
taken care of my wife for three years,
and that he could do 30 thereafter. /
left Malta there, intending to support
her, but two nights afterwards found
her upon the streets in the rain, look
ing for her papa. My second
wife was as perfect a woman as
ever lived 1 believe. AT years of age
Malta was an elegant girl aud had never
evinced q sign of vice. Not long after
my second marriage Malta came to me
aud said that a man had called in my
absence at the house and had stayed
long time with my wife on the back
porch. They then locked up the house
and left her outside. l afterwards con-
fronted her with my wife and she admit
ted that it was all fabrication. Things
continued in their former happy way
until after We reached st. Louis. had
sister there who was very angry with
me because took Malta, and also be-
cause of a Miss Josie Sheridan, who
travelled with my wife as a companion.
In fact, there has been cool
ness between us ever since. At
about that time Malta developed
a mania for lying. In 1871
I went to Washington City on business,
and while there Malta created a sensa-
ton at the Pennsylvania Hotel. She
said that an old man named Pat Cannon,
who had rescued some children from
the Modocs, had given her some candy
on meeting her at the head of the stairs,
and had carried her into his room and
assaulted her. l asked him about it,
and ne said he might have done
go while drunk, and 80 l for
gave him and left there hurriedly.
After that went to Florida for my wife's
health, and while there Malta sprung
another horrible story about the way she
was treated by me. l heard about 1t and
taxed her with it, but she admitted it
was lie, and whipped her afterwards,
for the first time in my life"
Following is copy of the letter intro
duced by the prosecution on Thursday:
GARRErT's LETTER.
Los ANGELES Gala, July "a, 1888.
MY DEAR GIRL-After hard days work
have taken supper, and now write you few
where you can refer to 1t at such times as may
refresh your girlish memory for the best. l
have learned today that you had forgotten your
sell SO far as to make confident OF that woman
on earth to whom you are indebted for all the
things you have enjoyed on this earth from
your cradle up Not being satisfied with
making confident with the paper
hanger, a man you had never seen before, and
who could only have but one object in view
too late. With all the bright aud beautiful
prospects before you, could you have seen,
Compensated and appreciated the situation
think how easily you could have been at this
very moment occupying q position that many
girls far richer than you would have cause for
envy Again, think how happy you. could
have made me, the one that has brought you
through all your heavy trials of sickness,
always at your side when you Was not IN my
arms. 1t makes me think l wish you were
child again, when could have you come and
etf d. oY,h lava
when you was little girl, for then you loved
papa, and you was all the world to me. Now
that you are old enough to be sensible OF tn
grand and how nice it would have been for
you to have shown your appreciation by ODE.
dienee to me as you did when q little girl, Had
did, and left deception entirely out. and looked
to your interest and to mine. how happy you
would have been today. You would
have had fort knd and and loving tte
and you could have counted your friends
by the dozens. Your admirers would
be men of standing whose aims and purposes
would have been in keeping with their stand
ing, and few would have been the recipient of
more chances than yourself Malta, dear papa
has ofttimes told you of girl by the name of
Annie Lewis, who in her 10th year turned upon
her father and mother with ceit, and, when
ever the lie suited her best, would iell 1t. She
was warned. but took no heed. She too, like
unto ourself, whenever her mother corrected
her for her downward course, she found plenty
of men and women who would take her part
and turn on her good father and mother One
of these friends of hers, man of course, took
her.
She readily consented, glad to leave her
| mother, the only true friend, TO join her new
M de friend. Arriving in n O.. as they did.
| all went well for a couple of weeks, when one
| bright m orning Annie awoke and found her.
kelf Twelve hundred miles sway from hons
and friends; and, worst Of all in disreputable
house. and her new-msde friend gone. No
| one knew, no one cared but Annie. Onward
she went; every step she mad was In the
wrong direction, where she had neither father
or mother to guide or advise her. Downward
she went until she reached the bottom of the
cesspool of sin and shame. The balance is un.
necessary to repeat. She too could have had a
brish hit and happy home and could have been
/ the 10y of the house she had left, and in which
she was born and brought up by tender care as
you have been. Can you retire TO your bed to-
night without offering up prayer asking God
me and your little sister? When you was
| child you would kneel at papa's feet and ash
| God to bless papa and mama and make you
good little girl You would kiss papa and pu
your arms around lly neck aud say God bles:
agsin! You are now sdrift, but thank GOD you
have drifted, as believe. into safe hands
| where you can take retrospective view int
1.-The past, and where you may remain calml!
gazing toward the awful end that awaits yol
chou you see fit to puru your course in tn,
require much determination on your part nov
to overcome the past, but you can II you will
Brighter days for you sometime. Yoii
will more than hate the ones wht
have urged you on to disobediencs. No on,
parent and child. To the contrary, they would
il they w. re the right kind of people adYis tn,