Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-02
A LAWYERS PISTOL.
A WOMAN FIRST sEDUCED AND
THEN sPURNED.
She Commits Criminal Operation to Es-
cape Shame and When Asking
for Aid 10 Told ssTo Go to
He'll"

Yesterday morning q woman went Ia
the Office OF q lawyer OF some promi-
nence in this city to apply for help
which she said she had right to ex.
pect. The lawyer pulled out his re.
volver and told her with an oathto get
out of there, or he would put her full Of
holes.
The intimidated woman left the office
at once, and thus did not find out
whether the lawyers threat was bluff,
or whether he was fully prepared to put
into effect his sangMnary threat to
make an end to her existence, which at
present is but wretched at best.
The woman is y typewriter and
stenographer, who has been eking out q
living in that way in the offices OF at
torneys, who have no regularly employed
amanuenses. 1t is said that there was
a darker side to her life, the result prob
ably of want or desire to wear frippery
that her av)wable means of existence
did not enable her to acquire. M
She is the wife of railroad man, who,
happening to lose his position over q
year ago, left for the east, suffering her
to remain behind, to do battle for liv-
ing in this world. friendless and unpro-
tected.
The woman went to work as best she
could, but in her battle for life's neces-
saries-ov its luxuries-fell, and now
che lie on the downward road in which
brakes but scarcely ever avail.
Some months ago she became ac-
quainted with the attorney who, yeater-
DAY, offered to disintegrate her soul
from her body, and she did some type
writing for him. AS time passed. their
relations assumed more intimate
character, which later became Of GRIM
inal nature.
The result that was to be expected
under such circumstances, soon became
apparent. The woman found hereelf in
a delicate condition, for which she held
the attorney solely responsible. He
gave her but cold comfort, and driven to
desperation by his inhumanity she re-
solved to make the proofs of her un-
chastity disappear, even if it should cost
her her life.
A very short time ago, the woman
was suddenly taken very i'll, and ply
sician had to be called to her bedside.
The diagnosis showed incipient perit-
onitis, the result of malpractice. Her
condition was very dangerous, and fear
ing that her existence was at stake. she
did, under pressure of repeated ques.
tionings, divulge to the doctor and to q
lady friend that she had committed the
operation herself, in order TO save her
from shame. She also told them who
was the man who had brought her to
the present pass. She mentioned the
lawyers name.
Contrary to all expectations, the wo.
man recovered, but after the illness che
had just gone through, she was almost
destitute. In her pressing need she sent
a messenger boy to the office of the law
yer, with note, urging him to come tc
her aid. and requesting $25 to help hel
tide over the hour of financial distress
Brutally, without the slightest cir
cumlocution, the lawyer disdaining
probably for the sake of prudence, tt
couch his answer upon compromising
paper, told the messenger to 60 bach
and tell the woman to 60 to she'll"
AS soon as she was able to leave hel
room, the woman, who was in desper
ate state of mind, hurried to the law
yer's Office, with the result stated above
She swears that she will have Justice
and it is probable enough that, driver
by resentment, the whole story will be
come public property, when she seeks
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