Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-17
WITH A BARTENDER.
A Misguided Wife's Foolish
Elopement.
LED ASTRAY BY MONEY
Mrs. Welstead Leaves Her Husband
to Go With Willie Wabberton,
Bartender.

About four years ago there arrived in
Los Angeles, direct from Ireland, q young
couple named Welstead. They were both
young, and had been recently married.
The husband, Henry Welstead, was a
painter by trade, industrious, sober and
kind to his young wife, indulging her in
all that his narrow means might permit.
They had been we'll brought up in their
Irish home, and taught by Christian
parents to do right.
For time they lived on Hill street,
just south of First street, in house be-
longing to the Dockweilers.
All seemed to 60 along we'll between
the pair, there being but one source of
apparent dissatisfaction in their lives,
and that was a matter of mutual regret.
They were not blessed with any fruit Of
their union. But 80 far as anyone knew
this did not create any unhappiness be.
tween the man and woman.
In some way in an evil day Mrs. We'll
stead became acquainted with woman
here, at one time the wife of bar
touucl, Uut VIII was oOPoinbou Aom
her husband and living clandes-
timely with young married
man of this city, sport, whose wife is
in blissful ignorance of this bit of his
daily existence. Here began for this
heretofore virtuous young Irish girl that
swift and easy descent to the social and
moral Avernus. The kept woman sported
silk and satin, was arrayed in the purple
and fine lingerie of her kind and Jared
sumptuously every day. The eyes OF
the simple girl SO recently from the home
of poor, honest people were opened to q
world she had but dreamed of before.
Here too, alas within her grasp was the
fatal talisman, the open sesame to that
bright but forbidden world.
At this stage of the game appeared an
accomplice to lend his Vaccinations to
those of the woman in leading this poor
soul 10 ruin. The second tempter was a
bartender at times employed in several
saloons Of this city named Willie Wab-
berton. He married young girl several
years ago in San Francisco, and had a
couple Of children by her, but forsook
her some time since. Wabberton had
some money about him all the time, and
with him and the woman Mrs. Welstead
was permitted to taste of the fruits
of the forbidden tree of luxuries
illicit to people in her circumstances.
The fruit seems to have been sweet te
the young woman's palate, for from thai
time her steps tended downward in the
path that leads to ruin.
Leaving out the tedious details it is
sufficient to say that three davs ago che
left her husbands home and went
openly to live with Wabberton. She
bought set of bedroom furniture from
woman in whose house she had been
lodging, promising to pay 500 for the
goods. She sold this for $40 cash and
gave the funds to Wabberton.
The denouement of the story is
that at about 2 o'clock yesterday
Mrs. Welstead's trunks were taken to
the railroad station, and that last night,
unless she may have repented at the
eleventh hour, she took her departure
for San Francisco. Wabberton said he
would take her to her SISTERS, who is
married and living in San Francisco
which of course is "fake," as nc
respectable woman will admit even g
sister under her roof under such circum
stances.
Sad to say, the misguided woman
whose union with her lawful husband wal
barren, is now about to become mother
Her end is too easily foreeeen. 1t will
be like that of thousands who have lef
homes they might have made happy tt
lead life of shame.