The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-14
He Says He Had to Support
His Wife's Family of
Twelve.
SHE DENIES HIS STATEMENTS.
He Lived With Them, Although He
Says They All Lived
With Him.

1t is not because he could not live with
her, says Guillermo Berduo, that he left
his wife; it was because of her family.
There were twelve of them, he says, and
they all came to live with him, so one
night he stole away in the darkness, and
the woman he married only two short
months ago sees him no more.
She is i'll and in bed in her mothers
home at 155 Octavia street, kept there by a.
doctors orders, and she did not know un-
til yesterday that her husband had repu-
dated her and had publicly advertised
that he would be responsible for no bills
contracted by her.
berduo is chancellor or secretary to the
Guatemalan Consul in this City, and he
asserts that while he makes enough to
keep his own family he cannot support
another. He was married two months
ago and Immediately after the ceremony.
his wife says, they went to her mothers
house, on Octavia street, where she has
been ever since, and there took I'D their
residence 1t is but few days since she
was left alone, but in the meantime the
only caus of dissension between herself
and her husband was her family. He saws
1t was too large for him to support. She
says he never supported her folks; that
instead Of numbering twelve they make
but four, and that from the time of their
marriage until his departure he lived at
her mothers house and the supporting
was rather more in his favor than vice
versa.
Since leaving his wife Berduo has been
energetic. He has gone to all the stores in
the vicinity of where he lived and has
warned the tradesmen that Mrs. Berduo
must be given no credit upon his name
Tor be will honor none of her bills. In the
columns OF the papers, too, he has an
nounced his search for financial freedom,
as is attested by this paragraph:
MY WIFE HAS REFUSED To LIVE IN MY
w horse and give herewith notice that L will
not pay any Oils she may contract July 10 1895.
GUlLLERMO BERDUO
1t was when Guillermo was contemplat-
ing disappearance from his home circle
that be asked his wife to go with him.
Then, as now, she was confined to her bed.
so she refused. ana the newly made hus-
band prepared for solitary flight Part
OF his belongings he packed in his pocket
and some he lowered carefully from the
window OF his room to the garden below,
so that he might pass out through the hall
unincumbered by any baggage which
might excite any of the inmates of the
house to the inquiring point. Then at an
opportune moment he left the house and
sought freedom from his young wife and
his mother-in-iaw at 525 .Geary street.
Mrs. Berduo gives her invalid condition
as her reason for remaining when her hus-
band said go. She knew only that she had
been left alone.
"There are but four in my family" she
said, "unless you count my relatives in
Spain, and they are hardly going to come
out here to live on my husband. My folks
live here because this is their home and
they were here when. he married me and
came here to live.
The wife is at a loss to account for the
desertion, but Berduo repeats in non
committal manner that it is her family.
He married her and no one else, he says,
and he cannot support MEDITERRANEAN
and eleven relatives. For that reason he
stole away in the darkness two months
after his wedding day.