The San Francisco call., 1896-04-07
DESERTED HIS
YOUTHFUL WIFE,
Special Detective Lands Is
Now Oh a Voyage to
Alaska.
A BRIEF MARRIED LIFE
The Heart-Broken Young Woman
Tries to End Her Existence
With Poison.
A VICTIM OF INGRATITUDE.
Worked for Her Husband While He
Was in Jail, and Is Repaid
With Desertion.
A VICTIM OF INGRATITUDE.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CA,,)

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI
90S Broadway, April 9.
Mrs. Carrie Lands, young bride of less
than year, is deserted. When she real
lied her pitiable plight she resorted to
poison as a means to end her misery, but
the speedy Intervention OF friends pre-
vented her from ending her existence, and
in a few days she will return to her mother
at Stockton with her short experience of
married life nothing but chapter of past
h istory.
When she came to Oakland and married
c. A. Lands there was every prospect of a
happy future. Lands was a hard-working
man, and many there were who envied
him his pretty young wife. When work
ceased the husband met with great diff
Guilty in satisfying the necessities of life,
and was recommended to Chief Lloyd as a
reliable man to do detective work. The
Chief put Lands to work on liquor ordi-
nance cases. 1t was his duty to procure
evidence of where liquor was sold without
license, and although he secured several
convictions he was at last indicted for
perjury by the Grand Jury.
While in prison his little wife went to
work canvassing. and the few dollars tha.
she succeeded in earning were mostly
spent for the comfort of her husband in
Jail. Her devotion to him was very
marked and she was a frequent visitor to
the County Jail. About month ago he
was ACQUITTED on the charge of perjury,
and for couple of weeks the pair were re-
united.
Lands went to work as a canvasser and
met with some success, but he realized
that he had made too many enemies to do
well in this city and he soon found him
EllE II Il a 81
ago he told his wife that he had been told
by an officer that he was 20 be again ar
rested. His wife believed him and con-
sented TO his going 10 stay with sister in
San Francisco until he could make ar
rangement TO take his wife with him to a
place where they could start life anew.
After being absent few days Mrs. Ian
dis went to San Francisco to see her hus-
band. The discovery she made convinced
her that she had been cruelty deserted and
that her devotion ard self-saerihce to her
husband while he was in Jail had been
returned with ingratitnde. She learned
that her husband had gone on sealing
schooner TO Alaska, and that before going
he had signed contract to work with an
Alaskan company. The heartbroken and
pennlless Mrs. Lands, who is Young
petite and attractive, came back to Oak
land. She is of rather an independent ma
ture, and while not able to work, from
sickness, she was averse to asking for
charity. She made determined effort to
exc out an existence by canvassing, but
was too weak, and two days ago she went
to her room in New Broadway and tried
TO end her unhappy life. She was found
by her landlady before the poison had
done its work, and doctors succeeded In
bringing her back to life. She will return
TO Stockton this week convinced that she
has been abandoned by an unworthy hus-
band.