The San Francisco call., 1898-03-02
Mrs. Maria Parent ana Her Children Disap-
 pear From View.
Taken From the City Prison by the Accused Slayer of
 Her Husband.
Louis Palo Presents an Order From the Sheriff and Secures the
 wOnaan'S Release

Mrs. Maria Parenti, who with her six little children was driven from her home Monday, and forced to seek shelter in the City Prison, is in the hands of Louis Palo. the man who was charged by a Coroner's jury with hay ing poisoned the. woman's husband. Palo is believed to have safely hidden his charges away, for up to last night their whereabouts could not De ascer- tained, and none of the woman nelgh- bors on Vincent place. where she for-
 merly lived. had heard anything OF her since she and her children were driven away in patrol wagon.
 After: being taken to the City Prison the homeless family were provided with food, of which the little ones partook ravenously, but the mother was too overcome with the hopelessness +of. her position to more than nibble at the. homely provender placed before her.
 She could not understand that she was taken to jail merely that she and her little ones might be given shelter, j: and her protestations of innocence Of any crime were mingled with demands for her. release. Poor woman. She .ev-. idently believed that every body was leagued against her, and so, when dur :, ing the evening" @Palo presented. him self at the prison gate with an order from the Sheriff for her release, she forgot that but a few hours before she had denounced him as the slayer of her husband. and only saw in him, her de- liverer from prison. ->: ' .. /. = = =. = :: 7
 Hastily collecting her: children togeth- CT, she followed Palo out through the McAllister-streetSe entrances. and the lit tie group was lost in the blackness of: the night. Where they. went to none of the woman's. friends: can: tell, but they shake their heads. omfnously when. told that she has. gone with= Palo...::'.* :.
 Michele Tano,. the man who has been placed in possession of. the house at|7:4 Vincent place that Mrs. Parent still believes to be her own and which she defended so ValiantFy against the Sher-1 fir deputies, who were sent, to dispoS-:. sess her, has little to say regarding the. proceedings. beyond the statement that : he had bought the. house and was glad the woman had been put out of it.: Asked if he knew where she had gone. he replied that he neither knew nor :: cared, and he also. protested to be fg-% norant of Palo's: whereabouts. When an attempt was made to"QueStion him as to when and how he had come to :: purchase the property; the price he had paid and to whom he paid the money :. he evaded answering by claiming that he could not understand. although 1t. was not difficult to make him under-. stand the other questions. He would not say whether he intended to sell the place, but referred his questioner to his lawyer, Thomas. $. Mol1oy Mir. Molloy was out of town yesterday and consequently nothing could be learned from him. " | :. :. :: :. .t..:. .t..:. enti's death occupied the upper. portion of sthe Vincent-.place house, but. for some reason he was ordered to yacate. :: It was given out by the Parents that he could not pay his rent, but: twas rumored that his ceaseless 5attentionsto Mrs. Parenti caused her finally to tell /. her husband, and. for that reason ?Palo = was expelled from the house. : "