The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-02
nICH-ABUSED WIFE
] Iachenal Tells a Story of
Neglect and Cruelty.
8 .usBAND's CHARGES FALSE
..ee Begun in Paris Ends in
!. seatsle-A Fortune squan-
.s.eS and Divorce Likely.

rife Of Joseph Lachenal. the French
~ complained to the police on Tues
~ that his home had been left des-
e her. Yesterday told her side of the
Il iii be remembered that Lachenal
Ia h;s wife of removing all his furni-
s'srn his laundry, 6a6 King street,
s 80 only cradle and a sleeping baby,
.sssted her arrested. The house bears
=. aFrench Laundry, Nine. Lache-
p,onrietress, and Nine. Lachenal
,be following, which is in substance
AN Of her troubles:
~ Lachcnal has an assistant named
s - ron de Peel with two small chill
The two do nearly all the washing
~ neighborhood: Lachenai. who rs
4 nearly all the time, even refuses TO
~ the washing, and he forces his timid
4 ITO supplying him with money.
f.,henal's story TO the effect that his
q s1ek ali the furniture and valuables
.. a. house Tuesday night Is claimed
- untrue. The women say that he
~ sround in the evening and created a
smhance and became so threatening
n fSsy vent away for the night. When
.SsnsI came back after having been
s.f;rs in the saloons and found no one
~ house he went TO the police in the
- # getting revenge. The women
a hat the 4-year-old child was not left
AZ house at all, but was taken away by
~ Iachenal is endeavoring to secure a
- from her husband. Lachenal adj
~ sbaf his wife does not wish to live
- him. and says that he has money and
n rishes to get some of it by securing q
s1rstion from him.
! I1en Mrs. Lachenal heard this state
nj she said:
sHe has money? Maybe he has, but I
3 not seen any of it. He wants me to
.ssert him, and won't do it any more. !"
Ks only person about the place whom
sbesal fears is the hired woman. and
n, frequently makes it warm for him.
/ 06cey NJ. Powers called at the laundry
,serdav and found the two women busi-
sashing. Mrs. Won de Peel, upon see
the officer, gave herself up, and said
Z sss ready to he arrested.
. i don't want to arrest anyone" said
todleer.
Didn't Lachenal send you here 2" said
Z woman, in surprise.
Ming told that be did not know who the
"a vas, the woman was still more. sur
red, and said that LachenaI had told her
knev all the officers and could get any
$ arrested. She then showed the officer
y following notice, which had been
sed on her the evening before.
| Huer vox DE- PoEL--Dear Madam: This is
ksosiIy ron to leave my house at once, or will
Ne ycu arrested for trespass.
JOSEPH LAcHENAL-
| The woman thought the officer had come
hSrest her for not complying with the
Inns Of the notice.
Nn Lachenal owes the woman for work
|p9iormed, and not only was she then un-
Ehh to pay up, but she could not dispense
Nth her services.
Il Is claimed that Lachenal, finding that
krould not drive the woman from the
|bcuse, has gone about the neighborhood
hiking about her, and she will today swear
|sut warrant for his arrest on a charge of
1elsmation of character.
Nrs Lachenal claims to be the daughter
|fHeIl-to-do Partisan parents, and at the
tMf Of her marriage was given q sum
H1al in American money 10 $20, Zoo, all of
shieh her husband. she says, has expended
yiihout consulting her. Some of the
money Is in Panama real estate, and
Lschenal claims to have property
y vashcn island, but his wife does
nos know whether it is valuable or
not and does not even know its situation.
he claims to have entered the laundry
haslness because her money was all gone
nd her husband refused to support her.
Lachenal is a blear-eyed, understood
nan and walks with a slight limp. His
nlght hand is badly crippled and one of his
myers is missing. He wears bushy red
lsan and mustache and dresses shabbily.
e speaks English very poorly. He claims
have, az one time, been very wealthy
!nd, I Louise Van de Poel carries out her
mentions and has him arrested, his story
nay prove quite interesting.