Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-05
AN EASTERN STORY
Brought Here by Mrs. Wal,
bridges Answer.
DESERTED AND PENNILESS
How Her Husband Came tt
California to Procure a
Divorce.


against his wife, Henrietta V. V. Wal
bridge, alleging in his complaint that
they were married on the 10Th of June,
1869, at West Albany, New York; that
the plaintiff had been resident of Cali
fcrnia elk months preceding the COM
snencement of the action, and that his
wife deserted him on the LIST of February,
1888, and continues TO live apart from
him. He alleged, further, that there
were three children; Benjamin A., aged
IL years; Margaret c.. aged Is, and
John K, aged IS, and asked that a
divorce be granted him, and that he be
awarded the custody of the children.
The complaint and summons were
served on Mrs. Walbridge at Saratoga
Springs, New York, on February 2Sth
last, and yesterday an answer came which
does not give Mr.. Walbridge very good
character, and accuses him of several
things which, when investigated in
eoul will give the trial an interest which
was not expected when the complaint
was flied.
Mrs. Walbridge's answer commences
by denying the allegations made in the
complaint, and then Mr.. Walbridge is
charged with having committed adultery
at divers times and places between De-
cember l., 1883, and February l, 1884,
with Mrs. Annie Cronkhite, at Sandy
Hill, New York. Mrs. Walbridge al
leges that che did not know this until
after the 18th of February last, and that
she has not lived with her husband
since. She also alleges that between
January 1, 1884, and the present time
Walbridgs has committed adultery with
divers females at divers places, and states
that on the 10th of September, 1887, he
deserted her, and prior to that had treated
her in cruel and inhuman manner.
Mrs. Walbridge relates the story of
how she lost her property, and alleges
that prior to January 6, 1887, she owned
two brick houses at Saratoga valued at
$10, 1000, and was also the owner of mort
cages and securities valued at $33, 900
Her husband had been her agen: up to
that time, and she confded ali her bust
ness to him with implicit confder ce in
him. On the date above mentioned, she
states, he contrivjng to cheat her of her
prope rty, and with intent of abandoning
her, fIaudulently took advantage of her
confidence in him, and caused her to ex-
ecute an instrument of conveyance to 7.
E. Walbridge, of Tamaqua, Pennsylva.
MIA, in trust for the purpose of providing
for the support of her husband and chill
dren, the consideration being $1.00. The
document left it in the discretion of the
trustee to sell the real property and ap-
ply the income to the use of the plaintiff
and also to give him such of the pro.
ceeds as he desired. At this time she
YVES sick and did not know the
rneaning OF the instrument or that she
wes conveying the property. She be-
heved she was executing / transfer of
some stock. Not long after this, while
abe was absent from her home, ahe al
leges that he removed her personal prop
erty, consisting of silverware and jewelry
and locked and barricaded the doors, and
on the 10th of September moved secretly
to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and aban-
doned her. He went from Minneapolis
to Elizabeth, New Jersey, and on the 22d
OF October, 1887, Mrs. Walbridge alleges
that he wrote numerous postal cards and
notes to merchants at Saratoga Springs,
New York, advising them not to trust
her on his account, thus not only leaving
her destitute, but removing from her
chance to procure the necessaries of life.
In another part of the answer Mrs.
Walbridse alleges that in the spring of
1887. at Saratoga Springs, he called her
names in the presence of others and
said the children were not his, and
threatened to shoot her. In the autumn
of 1888, she alleges, he said he had in
tended to shoot her, and was sorry he
had not done SO, that he would make a
woman of the town of his daughter and
thieves OF his sons, and when his son,
J. X. Walbridge, interfered on behalf of
his mother he knocked him down. Then
he told friends he had gone to several
States to see where he could procure a
divorce, and had found California just
the place, and he was going to locate in
California long enough to obtain de-
cree. Just before the suit commenced,
she alleges that he told her he wanted to
take his daughter Margaret and son Ben
to New York on a visit, and few days
later she received letter, which had
been mailed from Chicago, stating that
he was on his way to California.
Another paragraph OF the answer al
leges that, on the 18th of September,
1887, while she was ill in a sanitarium,
he closed her house and took his daugh-
ter, then aged Ii years, to Kansas, and
sent his son, John K, to distant town
to school, and sent his other son, Ben
jamin, to board with a family by the
name of Vandenberg, in Northumber-
land, New York. When she returned
home she found her family SEP arated,
and she commenced an action for divorce
ON October 81, 1887, for a separation or
limited divorce, in the Supreme Court of
Saratoga, New York. Some time after
this, she alleges, he pretended he wanted
n reconciliation, and she discontinued
the action. She asks that the action be
dismissed.
Accompanying the answer is an affi-
davit and petition for alimcny, in which
che says that in January, 1887, she was
worth $4,000, and by fraud, Mr.. Wal
bridge obtained from her a conveyance
TO Thomas Q. Walbridge as trustee, that
she Invested herself of all her property
with the exception of silverware and
iewelry, valued at $500, which he took
and carried away from her, and a small
amount of furniture valued at 5000, on
which he gave chattel mortgage to his
attorney; that she has not received an
income since he left her, and she has
been sick and confined to her bed and
unable to travel for more than year
that since the spring of 1888, she has
resided in q hired dwelling on
which the lease expired on NAV