The evening times., 1896-09-28
DESERTED Df HER HUSBAND
Salvatore Cato Leaves His
Wife for Hattie Brown.
ELOPEMENT AND BIGAMY
He brought the Woman to His Home.
Where Her Conduct Was Such That
She Beat Mrs. Quito, and Next Day
the Guilty Couple Disappeared.

Her large. brown eyes dimmed with tears.
Mrs. Savina Cato stood before the rail in
the detective office at police headquarters
yesterday. aud told Detective Sergt. John
sou about tue periidy and elopement OF her
husbapdv, Salvatore Cato. Acc ord
ing to agreement the wife called again this
forenoon and submitted to Inspector Hol-
linbergcr proof of tue charges she had
made against tue man who had solemnly
promised at the altar to love, cherish and
protect-hcr. " 1'-'.-'
My husbDad has run away with another
womau," she said. plainuvely, with the
softest of Italian accents, ''and 1 am left
alone to care for my baby, without relatives
or friends here to help me. On, why did n
do it, she sobbed, II was always such a
good wife to him.
Sergt. johnson Informed the bereavcd
woman that elopement was not an oifense
uUder tue District laws. and that If the
detectives located the man there was no
way TO compel his return to this city.
CHARGED HIM WITH BIGAMY.
But lie stopped in Baltimore and mar
ried the woman" added the Wife. land 4
have learned that her name is Hattie
Br6wG'
That statement put different phase on
the matter, and the sergeant SAID If 1t was
true Cato would te amenablc TO the law
for bigamy. The deserted wife was there
upon introduced to the Inspector and they
held lengthy private interview, which
may result in the missing husband Icing
brought back to Washington to answer
for his misconduct.
Mrs. Savina Cato is a pretty little
woman, tweDt y-four years OF age, aud
native OF sunny Italy. She is not OF tie
lower order of Italians, but is Intelligent
and or good family. Her husband, she said,
is a nephew of Joseph Cato, proprietor or
the Hotel Cato, at Eighth and streets
northwest. The pathetic and earnest man
ner in which the deserted wife told how
her husband had forsaken her for another
woman impressed her hearers at police
headquarters. where SO many tales u crime
and misery are reiaIed every day.
At present Mrs. Cato, with Ler fifteen
monthr-old infant, has rooms at No. AGO
c street northwest Her husband, rather
handsome, dark -compiexionedfe fellow, TWEEN
ty-fiye years OF age, was in business on
Four-and-a- half street SO outhwest until
several weeks ago, when he failed. OWING,
it Is said, to his mad infatuation for blonde
Hattie Brown, which caused him TO neglect
his isestabliShment and finally elOpe with her.
Mrs. Cato does not know Just how Sal
vadore became acquainted with Hattie
Brown. but several evenings ago, Just be-
fore their disappearance, he had the au'
dacity To bring her TO his home and intro
duce her to Mrs, Cato as his ''esteeincd
friend Miss Hattie"
HATTIE WAS TOO FAMILIAR.
The little wife was nonplussed for awhile
but she bore the ordeal of the W oman pres.
ence piiosophically, although danger
Gus flame of Jealousy was sinOuidering IL
her 1Icasg. .--
Finally Hattie Brown, enboldenel by
Mrs Gatto's forbearance. threw her arms
about the husbands neck, aud irdulEcd in
other acts OF undue familiarity. Ihis was
too inuch for the wife. and, springing tt
her feet. she perempyorly ordered the wo
man from her house. Like an enrage.
tigress the Brown woman. who IS large
and muscular. sprang upon Mrs. Cato. who
does not weigh much over 100 pounds
and severely beat her. Then, as she turned
TO flee from the place. she turned to tht
weeping wife and exclaimed:
I'll make you sorry before I'm thr ough
with you"
On the following day Salvatore Gattt
and Hattie Brown disappeared. They stop
pel mt Baltimore and were married, and
then proceeded to Philadelphia, where thcJ
are now believed to be living together az
man and wife This is the story Mrs. Gattc
Told OF police headquarters. and the Off
cials there believe her.
ERBROTHER AN ITALIAN OFFICER.
She added that she married Salvatore
when she was but sixteen years OF age,
! and has been true and dutiful wife to
him. Their child, a chubby. clive-cumpieN'
ioned little fellow, was horn fifteen months
age. Mrs. Cato has no relatives in TINS
country. but her brother is an officer In
the royal Italian army. In order TO pro
vide for herself ard infant the deSerto''
Wife has accepted a position in the ST.
James Hotel. and she told Sergt. Johnson
| that she would spend half OF her earnings
to bring about reunion with her false
Salvatore.
Inspector HolIinberger Will perhaps this
afternoon notify the Philadelphia police to
apprehend Cato and If it is true that ne
has married Hattie Brown. he may have
| TO do trick" in the Albany penitentiary
| TIE detectives have a photograph of SALIVA
| dore which will be employed in trying Il
! locate him. .-- .-