The herald., 1897-09-28
Deserts His Wife and Large
Family
FOR A WORLDLY WOMAN
LISTENED TO THE CHANT OF A
MEXICAN SIREN
His Wife Follows Him Up and Causes
His Arrest for Adultery-A
Doctors Predicament

from Santa Paula, finds himself in an
rested yesterday morning on charge of
adultery and now reposes in the city
Jail, awaiting settlement of the affair
The complaint was sworn out by Coop
er's wife, who claims she has been ne
elected, mistreated and deserted by her
husband and the father of her nine chill
dren, who lavishes his affections upon a
woman of frail character, a Mexican
by the name of Juanita Cohn.
Cooper and his wife lived for several
years on an eighty-acre ranch near
Santa Paula. The husband, however.
has spent the greater portion of his time
in this city for the past two or three
years. presumably in the pursuit of his
profession. but apparently, as recent
developments would indicate, principal
ly looking for a gay time. AT different
times he stopped at the Natick house
and the Ramona hotel, and was known
at both places as an erratic boomer of
alleged mining schemes.
His last visit home was made nearly
ten weeks ago, and it was about that
time when his wife began to grow sus-
picious that her husband had been un-
faithful to her. When he returned to
this city Mrs. Cooper made some in
uuiries into his conduct and became
convinced that her suspicious of his in
fidelity were correct. So strong was
her conviction that she decided to set
about to gain positive evidence. To this
end she got together what money she
could and started for Los Angeles with
five Of her children, leaving the rest on
the ranch.
When she arrived here about two
weeks ago Mrs. Cooper rented room at
lodging house at 7421s South Spring
street. She had little difficulty in locat-
ing her husband ard learned that he
was living in a respectable lodging
house on Hill street with Mexican wo-
man whom he passed off as his. wife. The
descriptions given Of the woman were
not such as would tend to raise the out
ragged wife's estimate of the taste Cooper
had shown in lavishing his affections
upon her. In the first place, she was
said to be addicted to the morphine
habit and absolutely innocent of any
degree of beauty, education or refine
ment Mrs. Cooper decided to see the
woman and If possible confront the
guilty pair while they were together.
A few days after her arrival Mrs.
Cooper one morning went to the Hill
street lodging house. She gained ad-
mittance ard proceeded directly to the
room occupied by Cooper and his par
amour. Mrs. Cooper did not wait to be
;,,to ~
at once. She saw all that she expected
and enough to prove everything that she
had heard relative to her husband $
inf1delity. Senorta Juanita Cohn had
just got out of bed to dress and was clad
in her somewhat abbreviated night
clothes. Cooper had completed his toi-
let and was in. the act of preparing some
tea on an oil stove for the woman.
Mrs Cooper looked first at her hus-
band and then at the woman with whom
he had been consorting, and then she
found her tongue. She rolled off a
piece of her mind in such tones that the
landlord was attracted by the disturb
arce and came in.
An explanation was made and Cooper
and the Mexican woman were ordered to
take their Immediate departure. Mrs.
Cooper prevailed upon her husband to
visit his little ones at the lodging house
In the hope that his sympathy for them
might induce him to cast off the Cohn
woman and come back to them. She had
misjudged the man, however, for after
fondling his little ones for little while
he left. When his wife next inquired
for him he was not to be found.
BY this time Mrs Cooper had given up
hope of reclaiming her husband and set
about again to fird him with the inten-
tion of bringing him to justice. She did
not employ a detective but tramped the
streets herself night and day trying to
again locate the pair. Finally she found
that they had gone to lodging house al
the corner of Commercial and Main
streets, ard were living together in a
room At II o'clock last Wednesday
night she visited the place and found
them together They were eating ta-
males at the time and had not yet re-
tired. Mrs. Cooper again reproached
her husband, and as he showed nc
signs of repentance came to the police
station and reported that he was livir.e
in adultery with another woman, and
asked to have an officer sent down to
arrest him. She was told that she would
have to come again the next day and
swear to complaint, as a warrant would
be necessary before any arrest could be
made
The following day the complaint was
issued and the warrant was placed ir
the hands of Officer Ben Robbins, who
made visit to the Commercial stree
lodging house and found that Cooper
and the woman had departed during
the night. No one knew where they had
gone. Since then the police and detec-
tives have been on the lookout fol
Cooper Robbins found a third party
who knew the man whom he was looking
for and had seen him on the street. This
party was able to arrange a meeting
yesterday morning with Cooper at the
corner Of Temple and Spring streets al
10 o'clock and the officer was on hand tc
gather in his man when he showed up.
Cooper was taken before Justice Nor.
rison yesterday afternoon and ar.
raigned. His bond was fixed at $500
which he was unable to give, and he was
taken back to Jail. When seen there by
q reporter he had very little to say
claiming that he was innocent and that
the charge had been trumped up agains,
him by designing enemies
Mrs. Cooper visited her husband ir
jail and they arranged between them.
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