The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-09-26
IN A CURIOUS HIDING PLACE
Trustees 81 the Whittier Reform ScheoI Arr
Sued BY Lucy Harvey
Dodd q O'Gara, the Contractors, Get
Left in Their Suit on Appeal-Lying
Begins in the Wong Chez Case.
Court Notes-New Suits Filed.

The question 50 much debated q few
years ago. and which spasmodically Is
still receiving a considerable amount Of
attention at the hands II not the heads
of many good people. Els Marriage a
Failure?" is having side lights cast upon
1t in the curiously interesting suit now
on trial in the United States district
court before Judge Wellborn and a jury
The story Of the matrimonial alliance
between the defendant in the suit at bar,
DR.. Gregorio Del Amo Gonzales, and
Miss Susanna Dominguez, was given in
extenso in The Herald yesterday, and
also the part alleged to have been played
in the matrimonial drama by the present
plaintiff, Professor FREDERICK C. Maria
villa.
of q rather dry character, but one or
two incidents occurred that enlivened
the dull monotony of examination into
dusty accounts.
Prof. Marravilla was being examined
regarding the trip to the east Of DR.. and
Mrs. Del Amo, and the motive that
prompted the eastern flight and left the
professor monarch Of all he surveyed
within the limits Of the magnificent do
main at Redondo. The witness expla-
nation, given with the expressive shrugs
and gesticulations peculiar to the Latins,
was both amusing and entertaining.
THEY DEFIED THE COURT.
1t will be within the easy recollection
of many that about eighteen months ago
an old man was tried on the capital
charge in the superior court. before
Judge Smith, he being accused Of MUIR
dering young Watson on the Domin-
guez ranch. 1t appears from what was
stated yesterday that both DR.. Del Amo
and his wife were subpoenaed to testify
at that trial. Both had a strong disin-
clination to appear in court, and yet
could not conceive Of way out of the
di tlty. But Detective Insley proved
to NC their good angel. He proposed that
if DIR. Del Amo would give him 800 he
would engineer the matter so that they
need not put in an appearance in court
They put themselves unreservedly in
Detective Insley's hands and that
shrewd gentleman got them out Of the
jurisdiction Of the court and beyond the
limits Of the state. But not without diff
ficulty.
1t had been whispered around that
DIR. and Mrs. Del Amo were about to
skip out and the officers were watching
at both the Arcade and La Grande sta
lions. Insley, euchered his brothers of
the same cloth, however, by sending his
two charges in the care of one of his men
to Pasadena, where they got on the
eastern flyer. The local officers found out
how they had been tricked after the
birds had flown, and determined not to
to San Bernardino. At that point the
local officers boarded the Pullman, but
Mrs. Del Amo made ignominious retreat
to the ladies' toilet while the doctor
did the same in the gentlemen's quar-
tiers. The officers searched the car with
out, of course. finding those for whom
they were looking, but as their informa
ton was exact they were about to enter
the hiding places Of the fugitives when
the train officials interposed and refused
the representatives Of the law admit
lance. Not feeling called upon to accept
the responsibility of stopping the United
States mails the train pulled out Of San
Bernardino with DR.. and Mrs. Del Amo
on board.
Insley got his 500, and the check was
yesterday put in evidence. Two other
outsiders who knew Of what was going
on and threatened to give the snap away
had their mouths shut by a judicious
application Of $40 gold piece to each.
MANIPULATING THE FINANCES.
There is one thing certain that as
witness Prof. Marravilla, while by no
means fluent English speaker, has his
facts down to quite a fine point, and
also appears to have an excellent men,
Dry for dates.
Certain bills Of exchange were intro
duced in evidence yesterday and as
these were all drawn in favor Of Nara
villa 1t Is contended by DR.. Del Amo that
the money was utilized by the profess
sor for his own use. but the witness ex-
planned by the introduction of the second
and third bills, the first being paid the
others fell void, that in each and every
instance he had endorsed these bills of
exchange to Isabella Gonzales, mother
of the doctor, who resides in Spain.
Marravilla explained that the doctor
didn't want his wife, or any one else for
that matter to know that he was remit
ting money to Spain within such short
time of having received such a hand
some benefaction at the hands Of his
wife as half her fortune, and it was to
avoid the fact becoming known that all
remittances by bill Of exchange were
made through Marravilla, whose name
figuring In the Del Amo bank would &C.
casion no comment, he being the major
domo and general factotum of the
household.
These remittances Of money began
about three Donths after DR.. Del Amos
marriage and continued until Marravil-
la cast the dust of the Del Amo household
from off his feet They aggregated about
$4,000.
THE WHITTIER TRUSTEES.