The San Francisco call., 1898-10-08
TOOK THE MAYORS VALlSE
A CRUEL FATHER WANTS HIS
 LITTLE CHILD.
Sequel to a Shooting Affair That Caused Much Scandal in This City Several Years
 Ago.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

9OS Broadway, Oct. z.
 Dominguez Zazueta, who disappeared from Oakland some years ago at the same time that the wife of a prominent contractor also deserted her home, has been heard from. He is now prosper ous cigar manufacturer in Philadelphia. He has written to the firm of Benham & Thomas, asking what became of the wife and child he deserted In Oakland when he ran off with Mrs. Antonelli.
 Some years ago Dominguez Zazueta lived in this ~.cy with his wife and child. He frequently did business for the firm of which Mayor Thomas was then a member. He became greatly in- fatuateu with the wife of Contractor Antonelli and one evening MT. Antonelli took a shot through his back window at a fleeing form which he declared was that of Zazueta.
 The next day after the shooting" said the Mayor this afternoon, T re- ceived a visit from Zazueta, who told me he had a splendid trade in view in Tulare. He assured us there was a big commission in it and as he had ire quently done business for us we ad Vanced him his expenses for the trip. He also borrowed my leather gripsack and started for Tulare. A few days passed and he did not return, but one evening I was surprised when MT. An tonelli called at my house. He was very excited and was crying. He asked me where ZaZueta was and told him that I expected him back any day. I then asked him what was the matter with him and he told me that Zazueta had undoubtedly taken Mrs. Antonelli with him.
 T wrote to Tulare and was surprised to learn that Zazueta had never been there, and from that time we heard nothing more of him. He deserted d lovely little wife and child, who lived on Telegraph avenue, and after awhile Mrs. Zazueta went back to her parents in the interior of the State.
 About two years ago Mrs. Zazueta called on me and surprised me by say ing that she was the wife of the captain of a south sea trading vessel and that their home was on the Island of Rara- tonga, in the heart of the Pacific. She told me she was very happy and that she would like to know if 1 had heard anything more of her former husband. I had heard nothing of him and so in- formed her. But she impressed me that her happy life recompenSed her in a great measure for the misery she had endured in this city. She was on a, visit to her parents and l presume she is now on her island home.
 Not long ago we received a letter from ZaZueta. He told us that he was settled in Philadelphia and was doing a good business as a cigar manu- facturer. He made inquiry about his wife, but seemed more interested in his child and expressed the hope that some thing might be done by which he could recover 1t. l wrote to him and told him of the visit of his deserted wife and assured him that l could see no hope for him getting their child. I took particular care to let him know how happy his former wife is, for I con- slider him to be a perfect coward, treat ing his family in the way he did. re- minded him that we still held his note for $190 for that Tulare trip and also suggested that if he felt like redeem ing it he could express the coin to us in my leather gripsack which he was thoughtful enough to borrow.
 "Zazueta does not mention In his let ter what became of Mrs. Antonelli, but as he only seems anxious to get his child I presume they are still together, After his wife's disappearance Antonelli sold his beautiful home for a mere song and left Oakland and 1 have not heard of him since. He was so broken hearted that I feared what he might do to himself"
 Some weeks have passed since the Mayor answered MT. Zazueta's letter. but neither the coin nor the gripsack has yet reached Oakland.