Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-20
HER STRANGE TALE.
Mrs. Edith Horizons Peculiar
Statement.
She Charges Her Brother-in-Lav
With Horse Stealing.
Her Dealings with Hawkins, the Second
Hand Goods Denler-What
She Stated About
Horton.

Yesterday afternoon a woman who
could not control her emotion was a
visitor in Chief Glass g Office, and it took
the greater part of the afternoon to &C.
cure her somewhat sensational story.
She was brought to the police station
at the request Of colored secondhand
goods dealer named George w. Hawkins,
who has store on Second street be-
tween Main and Los Angeles streets. He
which he had given her as partial pay
ment on some fourniture, and that she
had sold the furniture to another man,
giving him possession of it. She admit
ted that she had received the money
from Hawkins, but tearfully protested
that she had paid him back $40 of the
money she had received from him. In
the presence of Chief Glass and a
HERALD reporter she insisted tearfully
that she had paid back $40 of the money.
Little by little her story came out, and
she finally made clean breast Of the
whole matter.
Her name is Mrs. Edith Horton and
she has been divorced from her hus-
band, who is now on ranch near New
hall. She gained the divorce on the
ground Of adultery, but afterwards she
had relations with him and is now with
child by him. She stated that she had
made an agreement to sell the
she had taken 500 from him, but
more from another man and took bis
money. That she afterward saw Haw-
kins and asked him to release her from
her contract, Offering to pay him back
the 500. He refused to take it, but
finally accepted $40. Hawkins, who
made the complaint at the police sta
ton, denied having received any money
back from the woman, and during the
afternoon Mrs. Horton endeavored to
reconcile her statements.
1t came out during her emotional talk
that her brother-in-law, Gurdine Hor-
ton, had left the city the night before in
q wagon with the remainder of her
household effects, ostensibly to 60 to
Newhall and the ranch where her hus-
band works. He took her S-year.0ld
son with him, and also girl II years
old, Edith Glover, daughter of widow
lady who lives at No. 928 Short street,
in this city. 1t was only after long per-
suasion that Mrs. Horton would give
the names of the people mixed up with
her in the matter, but when she was
convinced that her brother-in-law had
left her in the lurch, she spoke freely
about it.
She alleged that he had been impli-
Gated in horse-stealing, and that the
team with which he went away was a
hired team from livery stable at Ell
Monte. She also said that he had driven
q team from Redlands not long ago,
hired in the same way, and that he
drove it so hard that one of the horses
died after reaching Los Angeles. He
sold the other horse and the wagon, and
a warrant was out for him when he left
the city Wednesday, not only for the
Redlands robbery, but the Ell Monte
theft as we'll.
1t was only after continual pumping
that Mrs. Horton told about her affairs,
her reluctance springing, as she said,
from desire to shield her son from dis
grace, who was born while she was the
wife of another man, whose name she
would not give: Also. the girl who
went away with her brother. in-law.
She was nearly distracted about her son,
or seemed to be go, and told her story
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all nothing should be said that would
disgrace her son.
It was learned that Mr.. Horizons
family relations are somewhat peculiar.
His father lives in Ventura county, and
is known there as Mormon Horton.
The police are of the opinion that q
nest of horse thieves has been accident
ally unearthed by the detention OF Mrs.
Horton.
Late in the afternoon Hawkins, the
secondhand dealer, came to the police
station, and saying that he did not care
to prosecute her if she paid him his
money. she entered into written agree
ment with him, making over to him
COW which she claimed her ex-husband
had on the ranch near Newhall. He
accepted the security, which was for the
full amount of 500, she acknowledging
she had not paid him back any money,
and then she was allowed to 60. The
police are endeavoring to secure clues to
the runaways, and the sheriff's Office is
also working to the same end.