The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-26

will on Tuesday next ask Judge Slack to
sever the bonds which now bind her to
man for whom she has neither love nor re-
spect.
The child wife, now in the cast of the
com pany at the Alcazar, who in moment
of infatuation was persuaded to leave the
f1ower-laden path of single blessedness for
the more tortuous road of married life,
will allege in her complaint infidelity on
the part of her spouse and many other
things not down on the calendar of men
of families who seek only the happiness of
their life partners.
In May Of last year Lula Redmond, then
a schoolgirl of little more than IA sum-
mers, was living with her widowed mother
in Los Angeles. She was a modest, retir-
ing girl, with pretty face and a figure
much developed beyond her age.
One day the tempter came along in the
person of ]. Leonard Johnson, and before
the mother knew what was actually taking
place the daughter had promised 20 be-
come his wife. For DAYS she talked to the
girl, and also to the man who bad secured
such perfect control over her child, and it
was only when she saw that something
worse would happen that she finally con-
Sented to the marriage.
In June last the ceremony was per-
formed, and for a while all went as merry
as marriage bell. One day. however, the
mother noticed that the child-bride was
dropping. A physician ascribed her i'll
health to the husbands treatment.
a stormy scene followed between the
husband and the mot er-in-law, in which
the latter came off First best" though not
until she had suffered. knockdown,
! which promised at the time to end in a
criminal prosecution. The young wife,
| Notwithstanding her wrongs, took the part
of the husband, and then followed months
of apparent domestic felicity.
One day in Septem Der, however, john
son met Trilby-"Trilby" Martin is her
name-and he Immediately forgot the
loneliness of his 15-year-old wife, and
sought the more bizarre charms of the
woman of the world. few weeks after
| he fed with her to San Francisco, engag-
! ing rooms at The Brighton, where he is
| still stopping. Two weeks ago he was ar
rested on criminal charge preferred by
his young wife, but he succeeded in giving
bail and SO continues TO find happiness in
| the charms of his "Trilby"
Mrs. Johnson is an innocent looking
child with large black, dreamy ewes and q
wealth of raven hair which makes her an
pear much older than she really is. Some
weeks ago, accompanied by her motber,
she came to San Francisco with the view
OF running to earth the man who had
treated her so cruelty. The arrest of John
son and the application for divorce has
already been told.
| For the time being the young wife is
playing short engagement at the AIcazar
She is possessed OF considerable histrionic
aolIlty, ana as soon as her present troubles
are ended will devote her entire time and
energies to thorough preparation for the
stage. 0' VIC
j. Leonard johnson, the man who has
caused Mrs. Redmond and her danebter GO
much trouble, is, according to the mother
in-iaw, man with record She claims
that he has been married twice-once in
st. Louis and the second time in Omaha.
ne mas bad record in the last named
pace, she says, as letters from the chief of
will show.
The erring husband. if his own story4s
10 De oeiieyed, is the son of rich coal mer-
cnant OF Savannah, Ga, named Taggett
ana shortly after leaving home he took the
name OF johnson and has chung to it ever
since. lie IS about q years old, smooth,
peasant talker, and would be termed by
the average person handsome fellow.